eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

October 28, 2021 — Twig Education , creators of the leading elementary level science program Twig Science, today announced the launch of Twig Science Next Gen for grades 6–8. For Twig Science Next Gen, Twig partnered with some of the most highly respected organizations in the worlds of science and engineering education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In September, a teacher in the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District, in Southeast Texas, was fired when district leaders learned that an eighth grade class was reading a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank. The novel had not been approved and was deemed inappropriate, and the firing made headlines.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2021

—July 19, 2021 — DreamBox Learning, the leading education technology provider that in 2006 pioneered intelligent adaptive learning, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Reading Plus, an evidence-based online reading program for grades 3-12 designed to help students boost their literacy skills and reading confidence.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , he discussed his ideas about education as a collaborative process where both the educator and the learner work together to create knowledge and learn from one another. “The Stay ahead of the curve Lifelong learning is crucial for both educators and learners to stay ahead of the curve.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience, and nine working as an educational developer, I know that while those planning steps are needed, they are not the most important. Teresa Focarile is the associate director for educational development at Boise State’s Center for Teaching and Learning. How might this work?

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modeled after the program at Bryn Mawr College, the student-faculty partnership program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (URTGV), one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the nation, aims to create educational spaces in direct response to students’ experiences, knowledge, and insights. link] Cook-Sather, A.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience, and nine working as an educational developer, I know that while those planning steps are needed, they are not the most important. Teresa Focarile is the associate director for educational development at Boise State’s Center for Teaching and Learning. How might this work?

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

We’ve discovered that the five-part working definition of competency education developed by 100 innovators six years ago hasn’t protected us from misunderstandings. So is enabling students to advance above grade level. However, that’s not the reason that competency education is valuable.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , he discussed his ideas about education as a collaborative process where both the educator and the learner work together to create knowledge and learn from one another. “The Stay ahead of the curve Lifelong learning is crucial for both educators and learners to stay ahead of the curve.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Department of Education, Newfoundland Labrador. Young children learn the most important things not by being told but by constructing knowledge for themselves in interaction with the physical world and with other children – and the way they do this is by playing.” Play is a healthy, essential part of childhood.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Tweets and pins and blog posts and Facebook ‘likes’ are fairly easy to ignore, particularly by policymakers whom are less technology-knowledgeable. Smoking, steroids, illegal drugs, and 3rd grade retention? State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? Related Posts.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

For this reason, the best users of GenAI are those who have existing knowledge about the topic so they can critically review and evaluate the trustworthiness of the output. It’s an emerging way to use GenAI that provides customized education at a time when our classrooms are becoming larger and where we cannot tutor each student one-on-one.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

For this reason, the best users of GenAI are those who have existing knowledge about the topic so they can critically review and evaluate the trustworthiness of the output. It’s an emerging way to use GenAI that provides customized education at a time when our classrooms are becoming larger and where we cannot tutor each student one-on-one.

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