eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

On the 11th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on post-pandemic classroom technology. Gradient Learning, 2023 ) On average, students give their school a C+ rating in making them feel excited about learningPerhaps relatedly, students give their school a C+ in teaching them in ways that adapt to their unique learning needs.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. To hit the curriculum goals, teachers must set a pace for their classes that aims to hit specific lesson delivery targets during the school year. The answer is far faster than we have previously seen technology impact education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

This overnight pivot also exposed inequities in technology access, highlighting a digital divide among students from different socioeconomic backgrounds that persists today. In short, there’s no denying that COVID put a spotlight squarely on digital teaching and learning resources.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Instead of just saving time, AI aims to reshape how teachers manage their classrooms, offering a way to automate the administrative load, personalize student support, and free up teachers to focus on what they do best: teaching. However, as with any powerful tool, the benefits AI brings come with caveats.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. He says to first share the curriculum to ChatGPT and then ask for things like fresh quiz and lesson plan ideas that use modern or culturally relevant examples.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

With advancements in technology and the rise of remote learning, classrooms are being remodeled and redefined to fit the evolving needs of modern digital learners. Teachers can use technology to produce these visual aids to help students understand lessons. Five Principles of Learning. Visual Learners.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Education often lags behind in today’s rapidly evolving world, where technological advancements and shifting job markets are the norm. Yet, a vital component of education remains overlooked.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. ” I recognized that their intimidation did not come from the technology itself, but rather from a lack of confidence. My parting advice for colleagues who are teaching the next generation of teachers: Let them play!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– The Smithsonian Science Education Center and Carolina Biological announced new independent study results showing the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom curriculum improved students scores in N.C. For information, visit Carolinas website , call (800) 334-5551, or e-mail curriculum@carolina.com.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. 2023, July 27). EdSurge.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

As teachers strive to adapt their instructional methods to nurture student curiosity and drive deeper student engagement, the principles outlined in Teach Like A Pirate offer valuable insights. in teaching. in teaching. Technology makes sketchnoting accessible to students of all skill levels.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Immersive, experiential technology is transforming how both students and teachers learn. For students, immersive technology can make abstract concepts tangible through interactive visuals. For students, immersive technology can make abstract concepts tangible through interactive visuals.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Countless apps and curriculum publishers have tried to “make learning fun” with mixed results. No, AI is not a cure-all technology, but it does open up intriguing possibilities in the thus-far disappointing timeline of so-called “personalized learning.” The harms done by modern technology can never be undone, but they can be mitigated.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its allowed schools to open up competing career pathways in the back end of high school, whether students pursue calculus for science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers or instead learn data analytics or quantitative reasoning. But how are curriculum publishers responding to this insistence on career readiness?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2025

Technology is a distraction. I hear comments like these in almost every professional learning session involving technology. I don’t think teachers are frustrated with technology itself. Despite the frustration and distractions teachers often associate with classroom technology use, the technology itself isnt the problem.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We need to prepare our students for a world in which they are routinely interacting with technology that needs to be programmed. You just want to get the conversation going and have tools to help connect the activity back to your curriculum. These don’t have to be groundbreaking or deeply insightful questions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Immersive, experiential technology is transforming how both students and teachers learn. For students, immersive technology can make abstract concepts tangible through interactive visuals. For students, immersive technology can make abstract concepts tangible through interactive visuals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2025

New America has a good overview on raising kids with tech: Navigating How and When to Use Tech When Teaching Young Children Take-Aways from Our Two-Part Series Focused On Tablets in Pre-K Through Third Grade Early childhood educators make thousands of decisions each day. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 21, 2025

It doesnt take much time to teach and its wow factor is off the charts with students. from 55 Technology Projects for the Digital Classroom. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. This is a good addition to a Photoshop unit. Copyright 2025 askatechteacher.com All rights reserved.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

Second, technology is here to stay. How can we leverage technology to provide meaningful choices within a learning experience and create the time and space needed to work with individual students or small groups of learners? In the last 15 months, teachers have been asked to teach in person, online, and various combinations of the two.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Reflect on Teaching. This year presented an even more complicated set of circumstances as most of us sailed the uncharted waters of using new technology tools and experimenting with new technology-enhanced instructional strategies. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Google Calendar provides teachers with a central location for everything you need to conduct your teaching sessions while still providing the overall look of a traditional daily. Unlimited-use: It serves as an online portfolio of your teaching, which you can refer back to year after year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. The fear of technology plays a large role in the hesitation of adopting technology in the classroom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Due to the rigidity of curriculum, standardized tests and the controlling nature of compulsory education, playfulness and unstructured time are seen as detrimental to a student’s learning. But what is learning and why is play seen as so antithetical to teaching? Part of learning is acquiring knowledge through experience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

I was able to meet their learning needs through an online curriculum and support their strengths, talents, and passion to pursue careers in tennis. Unfortunately, many current teachers went through credential programs that didn’t place enough emphasis on the use of technology in instruction. We don’t want to simply use technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Similarly, recent research shows that while 88 percent of district leaders, teachers, parents, and students rate life skills as very important, only 57 percent of students believe their schools adequately teach the life skills needed for future success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. They needed a cohesive core math curriculum that they could roll out districtwide. Part 1, spotlighting 10 more finalists, can be found here.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 3, 2020

What I want to avoid is a situation where teachers are presented with an alternative schedule in August and given a handful of professional development days to figure out how to adjust a semester’s worth of curriculum for a hybrid schedule. Schools may need to get creative when it comes to their course catalog.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in primary, elementary or intermediate schools. Cyber Legends intends to change that with engaging, curriculum-aligned lessons, masked as a fun video game. Westover, Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching Coordinator at Rainy River District School Board.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. I understand the pressure teachers feel to cover the standards and move through their curriculum. Yet, some teaching strategies create barriers that impede student progress.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Despite their best efforts, teachers feel like they cannot be successful in teaching and reaching all students. What’s working? What are they struggling with?

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. But is this the right course of action to take?

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