Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the meantime, science teachers like myself are largely left to modify and present the standards independently as schools cycle through textbooks and curriculums. I loved the enthusiastic discussion and hilarious, brilliant letters this unit generated, but I was nervous about teaching the next unit: electricity and magnetism.

Science 171

Science Math Students English 171

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Following their research, we had an engaging discussion on their aqueducts and how and why they worked. As a follow up activity, my students researched and discussed the science behind what rivers do that would be beneficial to a new civilization. Recently I had my students reading about Ancient Rome. What worked and what didn’t?

Social Studies 126

Social Studies Teachers STEM Math 126

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. This could be by sharing it with you, posting it to a class blog, embedding it into a Discussion Forum, or uploading it to their digital portfolio. Annotate a PDF. Empower yourself.

Skills 167

Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. As a result, students can spend more time participating in classroom activities and discussion.” To date, Lynn professors have developed more than 50 interactive e-textbooks.

Mobile Devices 110

Mobile Devices Textbooks Teaching Lecturing 110

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 94

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 94

EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2018

His signature book, Ditch That Textbook , offers ways for teachers to use digital technologies to revolutionize the classroom with innovative teaching, mindsets and curriculum. EdTech talked with Miller about how teachers can move away from paper textbooks and deploy more digital technologies in the classroom. . That makes sense.

Textbooks 75

Textbooks Fairness Intelligence Discussions 75

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

The discussion took place at the recent ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia in front of a live audience. It's an adaptive course — think of it as an interactive high-tech textbook. And so we've got thousands of students at a university in Georgia who are using this stats course instead of a textbook. Do not use those, please.

Testing 124

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Sprinkle in a few other sites such as The Hill, Politico, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News, and CNN and we can see how real-time social media could be an incredibly powerful lens through which to view, discuss, and understand government in action, not just as abstract concepts from a dry textbook.

Schools 98

Schools Fairness Textbooks Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 90

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

an article in The New York Times covering his resignation, Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot charter schools, put it this way: "The bitterness that had developed between Mr. Deasy and his critics impeded healthy discussion." And as we began that discussion, it pretty much snowballed. Traditionally textbooks lasted a while.

Education 80

Education Fairness Textbooks Discussions 80

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s not fair to expect that technology will improve the core business of education.” Well, first, let’s discuss why schools are racing to buy technology. You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?” I get that argument all the time, especially from people in the field.

Testing 98

Testing Questions Fairness Textbooks 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks rather than print is that users can write in them. This could be by sharing it with you, posting it to a class blog, embedding it into a Discussion Forum, or uploading it to their digital portfolio. Annotate a PDF. Empower yourself.

Skills 84

Skills Teachers Failure Learning 84

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

We can negotiate and discuss how they’re used in each of these contexts, but getting rid of them isn’t possible. Likewise, we’re better served by being as precise as possible when we discuss testing. That’s a lot of adjectives, but specificity is more helpful than generalities when discussing standardized tests.

Testing 106

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. I know you mentioned textbooks, pencils and papers and things of that nature, but are there other support systems you're talking about here that these students might need that would be outside the typical for what we'd expect? Thank you so much.

Schools 92

Schools Students Communication Counselling 92

Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. Teachers can give a lecture, get students discussing and thinking, and then play a video that deepens their understanding of a topic.

Study 52

Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have to. Before we dive too deep, let’s get a basic understanding of copyright and fair use. What is Fair Use? Teaching is an activity that qualifies as fair use. What is Copyright?

Fairness 168

Fairness Teachers Textbooks Discussions 168

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

But outside of mentions of slavery being abolished with the adoption of the 13th Amendment in 1865, where, in our widely produced and purchased K-12 curriculums, do we extensively discuss the economic and industrial successes and innovations that African Americans and other races contributed to society? Followed by: “What happened?”

Textbooks 216

Textbooks History Fairness Knowledge 216

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy.

Education 116

Education Disabilities History Writing 116

Robert Kaplinsky

AUGUST 9, 2022

Of the ones that did do it on their own “the vast majority completed the homework by mimicking from either their notes or the textbook.” Specifically, I’m a huge fan of 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions by Peg Smith and Mary Kay Stein.

Reading 52

Reading Math Questions Writing 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Anyway, I was teaching it in this very dry way, out of this textbook, and looking at a class of 9th graders who could care less what I was saying. It started one of the most powerful discussions we'd ever had that year. Textbook costs have increased over 1,000 percent over the last 30 years. I don't think they have.

Textbooks 136

Textbooks Fairness Testing Motivation 136

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Researchers were surprised to learn, Gillis says, that the most-used sources for historical information are not textbooks but online sites run by museums and the federal government, especially the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and National Archives. Textbooks clearly are diminishing in influence, the AHA report states.

History 182

History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 182