eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

July 26, 2021 – The computer science program CoderZ was named winner in the Best Coding and Computational Thinking Solution of 2021 as part of the annual SIIA CODiE Awards. The prestigious CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative education technology products across the country and around the world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

Gale Interactive: Science’s 3D content aims to bring science to life. Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, has launched Gale Interactive: Science , a new digital science resource available now for schools. With Gale Interactive: Science, users can review concepts with tools to zoom, rotate and explore models.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2017

But Paul Low is not most instructors. Low, who taught undergraduate geology and environmental sciences and is now a research associate at Washington and Lee University, is among a small group of profs-turned-technologists who are experimenting with virtual reality’s applications in higher education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

So I felt like I was able to answer some of their questions, but also re-emphasize that we need to be looking to science at times like this [to learn about the coronavirus]. And then this overwhelming, just, feeling of angst. We need to be looking to experts at times like this.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

To help students achieve this, they strive to bridge the gap between access to high-quality instructors, award-winning AI software, and high-quality instructional resources. Carnegie Learning is the leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. Mystery Science Building lesson plans is not a track that many edtech startups venture on. And neither is elementary-grade science.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. I loved using this tool in a science class. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. In summer 2020, we began a research project at Duke to explore how we could use this data to help us as instructors do our job better. The tool reads instructor-provided class quiz or homework results and the set of learning topics covered so far in the course.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Educators around the country this week are celebrating the Hour of Code, an international effort to bring awareness to computer science. With about 90 percent of school’s 524 students on free and reduced lunch, P.S. 241 contrasts sharply with the wealthy computer science schools in places such as Palo Alto. But at Emma L.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

If we really want to understand how effective educational technology tools are for improving learner outcomes, we need to stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. As instructors consider technology tools for their courses, they are increasingly looking for evidence of effectiveness. What is implementation science?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks Mayer as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world. Since the pandemic hit, his research findings are more relevant than ever, as instructors look for guidance on what works as they move their teaching online.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2020

This uncertainty is enough to cause an educator—a profession that depends on planning and preparation—to experience a wide range of unpleasant emotions. But educators are a tenacious and resourceful bunch. Be a partner : Part of making it easy for instructors is providing them with the tools to succeed.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

The seed funding will expand educator support to keep pace with rapid growth and establish a resource network for users to share ideas and successes. InSpace allows instructors to maintain the natural flow of a face-to-face class in a virtual space and empowers students to control how they engage. and Armenia.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

The university added new options to its campus safety app, called Gator Safe, asking students to report any “face-to-face/online course concern,” such as if “instructor modified the class to virtual.” Emulation of police states is not a good look for a university devoted to the education of democratic citizens. Richardson.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But he thinks that there’s information out there about how the brain works—and in particular, how empathy changes learning outcomes—that classroom instructors should understand. Would you bring the brain sciences in? And it’s all complicated. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. As it turns out, the results of such neural fusion are intellectually enhanced when coupled with what’s known as spaced learning , a concept educators have known about for some time but only recently uncovered the science behind it.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2016

The Arizona-based education technology company was founded in 2015 by Keith Rezendes after noticing the tutoring industry was not fulfilling the needs of many. MindSpree requires background checks for all of its instructors. The company also provides a platform for educators to make more money.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute. government.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

MATHia works hand-in-hand with MATHbook, reinforcing what students are learning from their instructors. Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. All the kids, regardless of their background in math or their skills, could use the tools to be successful.”

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2022

Many classroom environments favor a certain kind of thinker, usually the students who are quick to recall a fact when the instructor asks a question. She even has a book she co-authored on the topic, called “Uncommonsense teaching: Practical Insights In Brain Science to Help Students Learn.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This was true regardless of whether they were pursuing an algebra-intensive major like engineering or physics, or a field like communications, counseling, or political science that doesn’t rely on algebra. Fortunately, much has changed since then in California and elsewhere, paving the way to modernizing mathematics education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

That level of personalized learning is just one vision of researchers who are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education. They’re getting a boost through 11 grants of $20 million each that the National Science Foundation has awarded to establish new AI research programs for education and other fields.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. Our technologically advanced society promises experiences that are user-friendly and intuitive.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

The “digital” factor provides instructors with data about what changes they need to make to their materials or teaching, while the “open access” factor makes it legal—and hopefully simple—to accomplish those changes themselves. The goal is to make it easy for instructors to make their courses better and better over time. “If

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The number of instructors on the platform grew from 1,000 before the outbreak to over 7,000 today, according to Outschool CEO Amir Nathoo. These informal classes, capped at 18 students, are led by instructors who set their own lesson plans, schedules and price. On average, Nathoo says instructors earn about $40 to $60 per hour.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. You need to analyze these implications critically to make informed decisions about the future of education.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Congress is proposing an innovative approach to building the federal technology talent pipeline for computer science roles, one that should be exciting for schools and students. Intel called the bill “central to the education and development of the future U.S. On June 14, 2019, Reps. Lizzie Fletcher (D-Tx.), Rob Bishop (R-Ut.),

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Even the book that I wrote about productivity was envisioned initially by the publisher as for online instructors, and then they asked if I would be willing to broaden the audience. Instead, he used a familiar set of educational technologies, but often used them in unfamiliar ways.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Some writing instructors worry, though, that the new tools may tempt colleges to rely too heavily on the technology or even eliminate writing centers entirely. At Middlebury, tutors are also trained to navigate AI policies, which can differ among instructors, Giaimo says.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2021

Those classes included health-care science and law enforcement programs—all groups that require students to demonstrate proficiencies to earn their credentials. As a result, instructors who have been doing some teaching in person are very comfortable with the idea of fully returning to campus.

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