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JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There are lessons in math, language arts, science, and social studies for three grade ranges encompassing the K-12 spectrum. All lessons meet the Common Core State Standards, include tips, and can be used with or without educational technology.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Other key findings from the study: Highly engaged learners in specific student population groups attained at least 3X their expected reading growth. This included analyses for students learning English as a new language and below-grade-level readers, who demonstrated more than 3X their expected growth. About Achieve3000.

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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. A web version of the app that will work on Chromebooks will be available soon, in addition to a Spanish-language release.

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MAY 21, 2019

While it got its start as a way to help computer scientists think more logically about data analysis, lately it’s been catching on with instructors in a diverse number of subjects—from science to math to social studies. asks Tom Hammond, an associate professor for the teacher education program at Lehigh University, in Pennsylvania.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Research shows that to become proficient readers, students need early literacy instruction in both word recognition and language comprehension. What’s the difference between word recognition and language comprehension? Why does phonics receive more attention than language comprehension?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Students often came into my program from all over the world with limited English language skills in their late teens, which makes them at risk for aging out of earning a traditional high school diploma. I fully support the model and know it works after piloting a competency based learning program for the past few years.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Add in the fact that I had several English language learners in my class, and my lessons on mitochondria and tetrahedrons largely started with basic vocabulary and sentence flow instruction. It’s not just the Language Arts or Reading teacher’s sole responsibility to teach literacy. But looking back, I shouldn’t have been surprised.

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MAY 19, 2021

In 2020, North Carolina revised the state’s K-12 social studies curriculum standards, which now call for the examination of history through the perspectives of behavioral and social sciences. These arguments are based on a fear of seeing public education become more inclusive.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Social Studies. Puzzles, Games, Music, & Languages Our local public library has dozens of resources for kids—online encyclopedias that, in addition to the plethora of articles on everything from Aardvarks to Zygotes offer crossword puzzles, digital jigsaw puzzles, science projects and craft ideas. Science (Even physics!

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

He also served as superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, where he focused on expanding student access to technology and narrowed disparities in graduation rates. Carranza began his career as a high school social studies teacher and principal in Tucson, Arizona.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Broadening our curriculum also allows a wider range of students to benefit from their schools investment in KIBO, while educators have the comfort of working with a familiar robot. Exploring with KIBO is available for pre-order on the KinderLab webstore for shipment in February 2025.

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JULY 18, 2017

Inspire also shows more than 7,200 results for English Language Arts, 3,600 for Social Studies, 3,300 for Arts, 166 for World Languages, 76 for Health & Physical Education, and 17 for Career & Technical Education. It appears that partners and invitation-only beta testers posted the materials.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

To get you started, I’ve provided you with information about what you’ll need to get started, and a few ideas on how to bring green screen technology into STEM, language arts, history, performance, and physical education spaces. The Essentials You really don’t need a fancy camera. Thermodynamics, anyone?

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AUGUST 6, 2016

And for a number of years, Scratch, a popular block based programming language—explains CT with a discussion on computational concepts, practices, and perspectives. See some examples below: English Language Arts and History: Lesson plan using Google spreadsheets and Google Ngram viewer.

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MARCH 13, 2019

And now, it’s attracted TCV to an education technology company. TCV is no stranger to the education technology industry, having chipped in on two $50 million-plus investment deals for Varsity Tutors, an online tutoring startup. Its other edtech investments include Capella Education and Watermark.

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MARCH 21, 2019

In Jill Armstrong’s social studies classes, when students learn about other countries, they don’t just learn from textbooks and news articles, which she says can seem abstract and elusive to teenagers. The primary purpose of NaTakallam is to meet a global need—and not the one for language services.

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JUNE 30, 2020

In her 2003 book “ The Language Police ,” education historian Diane Ravitch contends that “every textbook has a point of view, despite a facade of neutrality.” Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history. So these are politicians, not teachers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Douglas Combs from Haddock Education Technologies coordinated the purchases following an ESSER showcase for SLPS principals and teachers. When schools come to us asking about the benefits of AR and VR technology in the classroom, we know ClassVR will provide them with what they want,” said Combs.

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JULY 8, 2020

Then he checked by discipline, comparing math to science to English/language arts. Only one factor came up again and again when educators responded favorably to the quality of the curriculum they use. Still nothing. No discernible patterns.

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APRIL 9, 2020

high schoolers can tune into KCET for shows about language arts (“The Great American Read”), social studies (“African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”) and science (“Rivers of Life: The Amazon”). For example, from 9 a.m.

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JULY 20, 2020

Just as Flipped Classroom and Enriched Virtual models ask educators to think carefully about which learning activities are best done independently and which are best done in-person, A La Carte prompts school and district leaders to think about which subjects or courses are best delivered online and which are best done in-person.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Imagine sending a teenage driver onto a highway in an unfamiliar area, where road signs are in a foreign language, lanes change direction without warning, fog and rain obscure visibility, the car has faulty brakes, and the passengers are giving bad directions. Madness, right? In art class, they see how an image’s meaning can be manipulated.

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APRIL 13, 2020

They typically gather in classrooms to learn social studies, math, science and language arts from teachers who work at the corrections facility, located about 50 miles down the Mississippi River from St. Educating the 70 or so students poses challenges even on the best of school days. Paul, Minnesota.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Language is an important vehicle to help children understand and learn. The study, published in the journal Computers & Education in February, found that guided questions improved learning, and that having smart speakers do the asking was just as helpful for kids’ story comprehension. We saw huge benefits.”

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JUNE 12, 2017

On the second day of his current job, as principal of nearby Lexington Middle School, he discovered that a social studies teacher was also using the game. Top 10 educational searches on Kahoot. Fractions Multiplication Math Figurative language Animals Order of operations Equivalent fractions Adjectivies Division Grammar.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Computer science can be added to any core curriculum—math, science, language arts, social studies, history, or even art. This allows English language learners in my LASD classes to safely experiment without worrying about how to communicate at each step. In LASD, computer programming using MIT’s.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

We spoke to Welcome about why he thinks students need to have more freedom to explore the technology available to them in their classroom, and how teachers can use technology to build relationships with their students. . EDTECH: As an education technology consultant and speaker, what is your main message?

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APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. “You can pursue more than one path,” I told myself. Because of them, I fought hard to merge my passions with teaching over the years.

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MAY 6, 2020

See more: What Teachers Wish the Public Knew About Their Jobs During COVID-19 Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “I But I’m betting many do have a newfound appreciation for teachers and schools and what we do for kids.” But we aren’t out there trying to push that.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Listenwise provides free access to a collection of more than 1900 audio stories from NPR curated for classroom use, featuring relevant topics that align with curriculum in English language arts, social studies and science. Source: Listenwise ) Currently, 22 states test listening on their annual English Language Arts assessments.

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APRIL 2, 2019

Students in Actively Learn have access to a variety of support features such as scaffolding notes, embedded media, translation into more than 30 languages, an embedded dictionary, text-to-speech and dyslexic mode. English, social studies and science are our highest users. I can have text translated into myriad languages.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

According to our mission , Honolulu’s Assets High School “serves gifted and capable students specializing in those with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences. And a small cluster of boys needed extra space in their day to work on robotics and coding projects, on top of their computer science and physics work.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most of those teachers taught English or social studies, where the applications of chatbots are more obvious. But students have lots of math knowledge, Meyer argues, since even those who are behind in class will understand patterns in the world and have some informal language to describe complex phenomena.

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