Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. The initiative intends to create degree pathways with courses that only use open educational resources, known as OER, so students don’t have to spend money on class materials.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

The versatility and accessibility of personal computers contribute to their prevalence, making them an integral part of the educational technology landscape in K-12 classrooms.

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Edsurge

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. Here are three colleges that have found a way to use technology to create a more cost-effective, customized, and engaging learning experience. percent to 76.6

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says. We want to break through that.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Triseum's ARTe: Macenas immerses students in art history. through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. Textbook publishers could be the next level of major companies investing in the production of video games in higher education.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. And perform worse on tests. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Izzy Ngo and VERE360 are positioning themselves to be the go-to virtual reality resource for education. Ngo recently spoke with EdSurge about their work with VR and education. We are trying to change the way visualization and simulation happens in schools— ranging from textbook images to lab experiments.

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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. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Along with a rise in Holocaust denialism — fueled by misinformation, along with poor knowledge of the history — researchers have noted that disagreements over curriculum, book bans and politically contentious issues have ratcheted up the pressure on educators. A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Students greatly favored hybrid options, and they preferred digital course materials over print textbooks. The online experience has changed student expectations, especially of time spent in class,” says Whitney Kilgore, chief academic officer at iDesign, a higher education service provider specializing in instructional design.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Cherlendy Louis, a student and TeachTap user in New York City, said, “Instead of getting bored and zoning out using textbooks, TeachTap makes topics so much more entertaining. History, World History, European History, U.S. TeachTap currently offers these 11 courses: Nine AP exam preparation courses: U.S

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

textbook sales for 2019 would be weak. K-12 courseware assets , which Fallon described as “textbook-led” and one that “ does not fit in with our digital transformation strategy.” billion full-year loss—the biggest in its history—in 2016. higher education business that could erode its revenue by as much as 12 percent in 2019.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. While Reconstruction targets the informal K-12 education, do you think some of tactics will rub off on more formal spaces?

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

As someone who earned his stripes as a classroom teacher and designer of multiple online courses, and who previously held positions as the Chief Innovation Officer for the State of Rhode Island and Director of the Office of Education Technology for the U.S. But teachers need support to learn skills like authentic online assessment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found creative uses for it in my history teaching, even at that time. My favorites as a history teacher were #sschat #edtechchat and #edchat. Matt Miller, the Ditch That Textbook founder, was instrumental in creating various templates for the classroom. How many followers do you have?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2020

New education companies and nonprofits are forming everyday—a mix our education system has been comfortable with since the earliest days when schools eagerly adopted the first commercial textbook. It was the teachers who drove the first wave of education technology innovation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Department of Justice opposing the proposed merger of two of the world’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The 49-page brief argues that the merger would hurt competition, limit innovation and could lead to an eventual “platform monopoly” in education, just as Facebook dominates social networking.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, news literacy is not universally taught, largely because of systemic obstacles: It is not commonly part of curriculum standards, districts tend to focus on standardized testing and STEM, and lessons may be greatly limited or built around a textbook. I have seen this many times in my own classroom, where I teach history and U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Textbooks and College Sports? Some fans of NFTs see other potential uses in education down the road. The show is hosted by David Allan, a marketing professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia who is also writing a textbook about NFTs. The next best application is textbooks,” he responded to my email query.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Pearson is looking for some magic to support its transition from textbook publisher to digital education company. billion loss, the biggest in its history. And for that, what better place to turn to than the Magic Kingdom? He will succeed John Fallon, who announced in December plans to step down this year. billion in sales.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

And it matters in learning materials as well, say six colleges and universities in Massachusetts that have teamed up to create a new catalog of culturally relevant textbooks in hopes of improving student outcomes. In textbooks, on posters, there are very few people who look like me,” Wylie says. “It Wylie recalls. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

At the federal level, Congress is currently considering the ‘Never Again’ Education Act, legislation which would promote and provide funding support to Holocaust education nationwide. Other educators, negotiating time pressures and a packed curriculum, risk trivializing the history with shallow “coverage.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. For instance, educating professors on the need to make materials accessible and dealing with materials from a range of textbook publishers, who aren’t under the same legal obligations around accessibility. And he wasn’t alone in raising concerns.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

Richard Barrera “Many districts, for the first time in the history of their summer programming, are focused on fun and engagement as a number one priority,” says Jessica Gunderson, a senior policy advisor with the Partnership for Children and Youth, based in California. We call it a summer of learning and joy. Joy is not a throw-away term.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Fluent City and its teachers use proprietary 200-page textbooks as guides for language classes offered at seven different levels. From teachers to CEOs and administrators to politicians, leaders of all sort have rallied around investing in STEM education in schools and beyond. Scaling a culture school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But we rarely see novel education technology or human capital innovations built to address this challenge. For students of color in both urban and suburban settings, the content currently being fed to them in the digital age is no different than the eurocentric curriculum of the textbook era.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. From there, the seed was planted in my mind that one day I could become a college president—and the rest is history.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. This all fueled the impression that it was a political, rather than an educational, decision. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Shomali shares how Gale In Context: For Educators lightens the load when it comes to planning and providing effective and engaging lessons for all students. They wonder, ‘How do I take all of this and use it to educate my students on a specific topical area?’ Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that enriches the classroom learning experience by overlaying digital content onto real-world content, simply using devices that already exist in most classrooms, like tablets and smartphones. In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

The logic behind Kiwi is simple: when students are using technology, they are in an active role rather than a passive role as recipients of information. Calling Thunder: The Unsung History of Manhattan Exploring the past Immersive media is transformative in that it allows individuals to experience worlds lost to time.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Educators design lesson plans as quests, with a digital map that marks progress points throughout the lesson. Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” Educators have uploaded quests to teach history, art and even taxes and budgeting.

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