eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

As Andy Nguyen, a leading expert in artificial intelligence in education, aptly puts it: We are at an inflection point where technology is not just an adjunct to education; it’s becoming the backbone. Given the urgency, educational institutions must be bold.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 16, 2022) – The Discovery Education K-12 learning platform won the Best Education Platform award for PK-20 and the Mystery Science service earned the Best Science Instructional Solution award for Grades PK – 8 as part of the recent 2022 SIIA CODiE Awards.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2020

Department of Education is playing a critical role in this live experiment—and edtech companies have a timely, and time-sensitive opportunity to get involved. Over the past two weeks, IES has asked educators and families to share their questions about effective distance education tools. This is a big deal.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Camhi, Superintendent of Schools, Baldwin School District As someone who has been in education long enough to be considered vintage and to see major pedagogical shifts, I always wonder when the next big change will come. After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The chatbot offered an opportunity to ask the burning questions that often chase a reader after consuming a great work of fiction. And they were eager to do that through a new tool — it gave them a chance to evaluate the hyped-up market for artificial intelligence (AI) for themselves. What happened to Holden?And This was fine by me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. We need to re-evaluate our goals and how we meet them. I think we need to do some serious instructional reflection.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The Education Technology Industry Network (ETIN) and Empirical Education Inc. The structure and definitions provided by these new guidelines are useful in helping them obtain what they need and figure out how to do their evaluations. K-12 Schools. The 4 Main Sections.

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Confidentiality Evaluation Study English 188

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. So naturally, one of the big questions we face is, how can we help ensure effective edtech happens more often?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable. And so I just tackled this as a science question, and I started reading the research on how people learn — how people learn physics. …

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Then, the platform’s computerized coach provided observation tips and asked me a number of questions to consider as I began to analyze my video. This gives me more freedom to try out a new instructional strategy or take a risk with how I deliver a lesson, without having the feeling of being evaluated.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But before administrators and other educational leaders fully invest in the AI fever dream, it might be wise to slow down and first develop some guidelines around using AI in education–particularly for how to evaluate and apply this new, disruptive technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Each judge scored the products on a numeric basis from 1-10, based on a series of questions regarding functionality, value, customer service experience and overall satisfaction. The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom. Automated grading and feedback : Automated grading systems powered by AI can significantly reduce teachers’ time evaluating assignments and exams. How fast is this AI revolution likely to appear in the classroom?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. zSpace, Inc.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Romano was able to use reflection and feedback mechanisms to develop and evaluate students’ collaboration skills. Romano faced a problem familiar to many educators—he wasn’t sure how to collect evidence that would measure student progress for some of his goals. Some educators are already gathering evidence, even if they don’t know it.

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Education Evaluation Feedback Questions 164

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

Among the topics addressed were what colleges have learned from campuses in China, where COVID-19 hit sooner; whether the pandemic might lead to more adoption of microcredentials and other alternative higher-ed models; and whether colleges should do more to evaluate tech-teaching skills when evaluating faculty members.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

The result is playing out in science classrooms across the country as teachers look to address burning questions on hygiene and transmission and provide students with a deeper understanding of the science behind viral infections and the spread of pandemics. New Approaches to New Topics In rural Abingdon, Ill.,

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo is still in its pilot phase but is designed to guide students as they progress through lessons and ask questions like a human tutor would, according to Khan Academy spokesperson Barb Kunz. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction. Learn more about our funding here.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

We try a new combination of words, changing our search from a question, cutting it down to just an essential few words, hoping the results will give us information to a burning question. The Brainstorm After modeling for students, have them develop their own burning questions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. As with all innovations, there are positive and negative effects of technology on education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

The answer to these questions lies in assessing the readiness of your teams – do you have the right people in place, equipped with the time and technology to make the investment worthwhile? Choosing the right educational technology to partner with may seem like a gamble, but it can also be a game-changer.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

To be intellectually ethical, computer science education should equip students with comprehensive knowledge about AI. When evaluating a computer science curriculum, its important to consider how it approaches artificial intelligence.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

The answer to this question will help identify the right class materials, activities and assessments to use. Start by identifying learning objectives, not technology tools. Course Evaluation Instructors should also grade themselves, so to speak. And it suggests telling them about resources they can use if they need assistance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. How does augmented reality engage all students?

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Fourth, be brave and conduct a mid-term, anonymous evaluation of your course. Traditional end-of-course evaluations do your current students no good. I have adapted a template in Top Hat, education software I use in my courses, that contains my favorite questions: What should your professor stop doing, start doing, continue doing?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How many hours each week do you spend on creating, sharing, monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on student activities? Incorporate auto-grading When adding interactive questions to formative or summative assignments, feedback is important. In a BookWidgets activity, most question types are automatically graded.

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Feedback Motivation Evaluation Education 162

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2021

And while today’s unprecedented levels of educational challenge may merit equally unprecedented levels of teacher support, it can be hard to know where to begin—or even who to trust, as education experts proliferate and teachers’ time remains scarce. too much that happens in education is based on hunch, assumption and ideology.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Education technology with built-in lesson recommendations, like WordFlight , can provide teachers with instant access to a detailed view of each student’s progress, including insights about which concepts or skills students should learn next and which of their classmates are ready to learn those concepts too.

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Multiple Choice Questions Math Reading Achievement 174

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Before they can think about welcoming back students, schools will need to prepare for the new year with tighter budgets and a better way to support distance learning, among other seemingly endless questions. For responses to be effective, school personnel will also work to find more of the one resource that no budget can increase: time.

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Distance Learning Schools Evaluation Hybrid Learning 194

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2021

Al Kingsley’s My Secret EdTech Diary (John Cott Educational 2021) is a big-goaled, meandering overview of edtech (educational technology) available and pertinent to teachers and students. Stop, look and listen, Wellbeing, and Asking the right questions). My Secret EdTech Diary. by Al Kingsley. Voices aligned.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Ask that question to a group of adults, and many are likely to tell you that the finding checks out. You can’t just be told, ‘hey, this is how you evaluate the information.’ She concluded that the supplement promotes weight loss. Is that claim accurate, or faulty? You really have to be exposed to scenarios that practice it,” Motz says.

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Critical Thinking Multiple Choice Questions Peer Review Testing 217

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Sessions like these are often a firehose of show and tell with no time to reflect and evaluate. Some are “sit and get” lectures with very little opportunities to ask meaningful questions. Sessions on digital equity provide a deliberate focus and often lead to deeper and nuanced questions about systemic issues. That’s a problem.

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Evaluation Feedback Participation English 160

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Gorman suggests that faculty who are hesitant to open the floodgates with open-ended questions instead experiment by asking targeted inquiries about specific course details.

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