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. Enhanced internet connectivity In today’s digital age, robust internet connectivity is essential for effective learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Georgia’s Liberty County School System to outfit its school bus fleet with wi-fi in an effort to extend the school day — the first school district in Georgia to provide students free internet access through mobile wi-fi units. to 11:30 p.m.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past. Under the initial plan, all teachers were expected to shift to Pearson online curriculum. The results were sobering but not altogether surprising.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one. Baraniuk recalls thinking.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

Bringing real-world issues into the classroom with virtual trips Climate change is an increasingly important subject in school curriculums. However, many students are dissuaded from pursuing environmental science due to mundane textbooks and complex diagrams. Here’s how to do it. For them, information comes instantaneously.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

That starts by rapidly adapting curriculums in teaching colleges and providing extra training for experienced teachers to help them get ahead of the technology curve, regardless of whether one anticipates another crisis that dictates remote learning. In Oakland, 98 percent of all students now have a computer and internet service.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. And it’s a good thing she did.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Many educators who use Vernier probeware in their classroom have noted a deeper engagement and understanding when students watch an event and collect data simultaneously when compared to only reading a table of measurements in a textbook.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Available on Discovery Education’s Earth Day website, this collection of K-12 content is organized by grade band and has been curated by Discovery Education’s team of curriculum experts. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. . Linke d In.? .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional textbooks are being replaced by interactive e-books and online resources, giving students dynamic and multimedia-rich content that can be updated as the world changes. Online resources, educational websites, and digital libraries have expanded the scope of learning beyond the confines of textbooks.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection. The type of learning and work environments students will experience after they graduate resemble the traditional “sage-on-the-stage,” textbook-driven model of teaching less and less. Provide real-world opportunities. Blue Valley Public Schools (Kans.)

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

According to Stillman and his 17 year-old son and co-author Jonah, Millennials can still remember a time before the internet. And more schools are incorporating mobile tablets and smartphones into their curriculum [read about the staggering growth of Chromebook implementation here ]. Digital is King.

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AUGUST 24, 2017

Today, the organization is launching its first full (and free) math curriculum as a starting (and proving) point. Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. So far, she thinks the full curriculum is following suit. Corrine Williams. says Williams. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Quality Over Quantity One of the changes that my district implemented as we were planning the transition to remote continuous learning was to focus more on the essential standards and content, and less about getting through an entire set of curriculum.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Shambo said students need some type of maze to apply those skills, but a search of the internet revealed little for him to purchase. Most of the suggestions called on teachers to tape off a section of the floor or create mazes using blocks, textbooks or other classroom objects.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“Curriculum is becoming commoditized.” That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. With OERs, educators can become curriculum makers. And he’s not alone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2022

Internet Archive — Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface. IBooks –amazing way to download and read books. International Library. Librivox –free public domain audio books.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The next game changer, according to education experts, will be digital textbooks. Why spend a year studying information in a print textbook that doesn’t match the thinking or values of the school and its students? RAZ Kids books can’t be read on a Nook and many textbooks require a publisher-provided reader.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education. Schacht credits the growing availability of broadband internet in schools for helping “get his product into the hands of teachers directly.” In August 2019, the Silver Spring, Md.-based

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

One-to-One Learning Initiatives : Many districts are empowering their students by opening a whole new world of learning by swapping traditional, printed textbooks for tablets, laptops, and computers, giving students the latest technology and access to the internet and building new curriculum in and around this marriage of education and technology.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lisa Wills, executive director of curriculum and instruction for Ector County Independent School District (ISD) in Odessa, Texas, answered these questions and more in a 45-minute session at FETC. Learning.com , a provider of digital skills and computer science curriculum, has acquired Codesters, an online platform and coding curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. The internet has become an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike, offering a vast repository of educational materials, research, and collaborative tools.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

Endless Network , a worldwide organization dedicated to tackling equity gaps resulting from challenges like insufficient internet access, strategically allocates investments in global companies that align with their mission and actively work toward achieving it. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Further, we will examine how libraries and schooling have always been connected and how important they are in shaping people’s paths and changing lives. The Emergence of E-Books in College Education Traditional textbooks are the foundation of a student’s academic life but have limitations.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Students and teachers accessed rich and interactive content, along with curriculum materials, through the Mobiliya Edvelop platform. Mobiliya Edvelop is driving a research-oriented mentoring program on the AIT campus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Four school-based pieces you’ll need: a robust infrastructure–these additional digital devices require an extended internet interface as well as sufficient bandwidth to transport all that data. Digital textbooks. Traditional textbooks are heavy, clunky, expensive, and are always at school when you need them at home.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Virtual meetings 1 or 2 times per week can help students feel connected to their teachers and classmates, but it is helpful to make them optional, due to potential time differences or internet accessibility issues. Carefully choose digital curriculum … When students do not have printed textbooks at home, digital curriculum can fill the gap.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

They challenged us to build content for their curriculum and then pilot it with their students and teachers. We are trying to change the way visualization and simulation happens in schools— ranging from textbook images to lab experiments. Where do you think VR fits in as more of us are getting accustomed to interacting virtually?

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APRIL 24, 2023

International Library Internet Archive — Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 21, 2019

The High School technology curriculum prepares students for their college-and-career future not by teaching widgets and programs—though that happens—but by showing them how to use the tech they have acquired throughout their education. Internet Search and Research. HS Tech Curriculum Bk 1 Preview Download. Desktop Publishing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

This data-driven approach not only identifies areas of strength and weakness but also helps create a more responsive and customized curriculum. This includes the integration of devices like computers and tablets, educational software, interactive multimedia content, and internet-based resources into the curriculum.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO — January 12, 2022 — Kiddom , the first all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, today announced an expansion of its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing. Kiddom works on any device, on any web browser and on a wide range of internet speeds.

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MAY 19, 2023

International Library Internet Archive — Internet Archive offers over 12,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. Kindle –read ebooks, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs on an easy-to-use interface. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

It’s the percentage of students around the whole who lack consistent internet connectivity—and access to many of the tools and online courseware that some have hailed as the solution to education gaps. Some, like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, have taken on the monstrous task of bringing internet access to billions of people around the world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

This includes providing students with devices and internet access to participate in virtual classes. Boost curriculum and professional development: Schools can use funds to develop new curriculum materials or purchase new textbooks and other educational materials.

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