eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

STEAM education is trending at an opportune time: The COVID-19 pandemic caused learning loss across the board, and a STEAM-centered curriculum that engages students while weaving important 21st-century education principles into real-world lessons is critical for success. Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot. consortium. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

The art and technology teacher initially designed a curriculum around digital storytelling and then transformed it into a multimedia art curriculum that included iMovie, storyboarding, illustration, children’s books, and front-end web design. So she created her own.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

The other, from the president and CEO of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization that provides schools with innovative, hands-on, project-based STEM curriculum designed to develop critical skills and knowledge, while preparing students for careers beyond the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

He also explores how technology can aid in more accurate, unbiased, and motivational assessment methods. Technology can offer benefits in assessment by providing support for generating questions and allowing students to demonstrate their knowledge in various ways. It can help reduce the limitations of traditional assessments.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

Michele Dawson, senior director of instructional technology in Compton Unified School District in Calif., and Kelly Urlacher, senior curriculum designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

We embrace a train-the-trainer model when adopting new technologies or programs, so I make sure that our librarians have the training they need to not only implement these innovations, but to share them with their teachers. We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since then, I have served in various roles in public education and the private sector and have witnessed innovations in curriculum, instructional design, classroom design, and more. When it comes to training and developing teachers, we have been letting opportunity to leverage technology pass us by.

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k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

As a leader of IB World schools, Kim Green is committed to creating strong connections across the learning continuum through impactful leadership, a strong curriculum that leads to mastery, and mindful and inclusive practices. What role do you think technology should play in supporting student learning and achievement?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The curriculum is adaptive in real-time, and technology is used intuitively to ensure every aspect of student life is safe, connected, efficient, and supportive. Through the implementation of AI and smart building technology, schools are beginning to see transformative impact across K-12 campuses.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We embrace a train-the-trainer model when adopting new technologies or programs, so I make sure that our librarians have the training they need to not only implement these innovations, but to share them with their teachers. We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A: For decades now, the federal government has required public school teachers to implement “full inclusion” classrooms, where students of all levels and abilities are taught the same curriculum and lessons and given the same tests. As a result, gifted students can end up as an underserved population.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. Shapiro: Years ago, while working in a charter school in New York City focused on using technology in the classroom, I met Katie Salen Tekinba?. It's the same way you would start any kind of curriculum design.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s an honor to have our coding and robotics curriculum and its game-based design and instructional model chosen as a solution that is positively impacting teaching and learning—and this has never been more important than during this unprecedented time of COVID-19.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI-powered tools can aid in identifying gaps in curriculum design, helping institutions refine their teaching strategies. Dependence on technology: Overreliance on AI may diminish critical thinking and problem-solving skills in students, as they become accustomed to technology-driven solutions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

Building relational trust is paramount for leading communities through technological shifts. We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. We pressure-tested curriculum components and designed an accelerated offering to learn and adjust.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. The district is in the midst of navigating another drastic shift: rolling out custom, teacher-curated curriculum designed with free, openly licensed material, district technology director Ed Eimiller said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. But too often, a critical element is left out of the process: student voice. You can find the full report here , and a snapshot of highlights below.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

Of all the lessons learned, the most important was this: if we center technology and deficit-based thinking in our philosophy for personalization, we not only work against our collective efforts for equitable, personalized learning, we inadvertently harm students in the process.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2016

As science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs continue to grow, the U.S. Headquartered in Houston, NISE was conceived by practicing educators and is based on thousands of hours of research, professional development, curriculum design and educational leadership. academic dean at ACE. academic dean at ACE. “We

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. What would a national Black curriculum look like? And by May, we had hired close to 30 curriculum writers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2022

As Educational Technology Director for the entire district, Susan Uram is responsible for ensuring that roughly 28,000 students and their teachers have access to the most impactful learning technology available. Then, we have systems of teacher leaders, curriculum leaders, principals who join these conversations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The primary way the nonprofit is doing this is through an AI curriculum it launched in May in Akron Public Schools in Ohio but which has already spread to six states and more than 2,500 students. Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. I call it “Gen Z curriculum design.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

As we’ve already mentioned , personalized learning should not and cannot be purely centered on technology. This means not simply examining technology’s role in education, but exploring what learning sciences, community development and social-emotional research can teach us about the holistic picture of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rather than creating online degree programs from scratch, Noodle is outsourcing various aspects—recruitment, curriculum design—to other companies and bundling together the services for universities. Perhaps the university wants to outsource recruitment and analytics for its online program but handle the curriculum design internally.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

These educators work directly with teachers and administrators, serving as mentors, curriculum writers, and professional learning facilitators for our workforce. There are many cases in which we make subtle changes to our strategy or curriculum based on MBE research to improve teaching and learning. What do we need to start doing?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2020

eLumen , the all-in-one platform that helps institutions of higher learning and all individual stakeholders succeed on purpose, today announced the launch of a suite of professional services designed to leverage the effectiveness of instructors and enhance the accomplishments that take place on campuses across the world every day.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

It focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning through technology without the internet. Recently, EdSurge spoke to Lauren Lichtman , head of strategy and partnerships, about Learning Equality’s unique collaborative approach to enabling equity in education through technology. billion people worldwide without internet access.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

First, the BEGiN will expand Homer’s digital curriculum beyond reading to cover math, critical thinking and social-emotional learning. Every one of our investors invested with an intention to play an integral role, whether that’s through curriculum design, branding, promotion or product development,” he says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

Dahlgren’s experience in the technology sector spans four decades, with the first half of his career in large public IT companies and the latter half in private, software and SaaS-oriented firms. In this role, Dahlgren aims to leverage the company's talent and technology to support higher education institutions effectively.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use. Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

As a leader of IB World schools, Kim Green is committed to creating strong connections across the learning continuum through impactful leadership, a strong curriculum that leads to mastery, and mindful and inclusive practices. What role do you think technology should play in supporting student learning and achievement?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. That’s the engineering side of my brain.

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