eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

For centuries, education has been confined to the walls of schools, colleges, and institutions. Enter the education technology (edtech) boom since 2020 and the very ideology around teaching and learning has been revolutionized. Edtech has completely redefined how knowledge is imparted and how skills are acquired.

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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? A study from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. What is a case study? 2009; Thistlethwaite et al.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

They question whether or not college is the right mechanism for the future economy,” he added. “So Will I be happy? I don't care, but it's putting money in my pocket. It's building my self-esteem.’” These students are not sold on the narrative that a college degree is essential. They'll build their own mini-businesses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

When that app began to send her photos of her child, she had some additional questions. Across the country, more and more child care programs are signing up to use administrative technology. But research and formal dialogue on the effects of this administrative technology on students, teachers and families has been sparse.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

The company has launched Gale In Context: For Educators’ new Learning Center , an on-demand professional learning hub for finding, organizing and learning how to teach – virtually or in-person – using the content created within For Educators. Easy to access answers to the most commonly-asked questions and more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2019

Educational software is one of the biggest sources of wasted spending in K-12, according to a new study evaluating spending in U.S. The study from Glimpse K12 tracked 200,000 curriculum software licenses purchased by 275 schools during the 2017-2018 school year. Because the education technology software space alone totals $8.4

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Additionally, students receive immediate corrective feedback after every missed question, enabling them to quickly understand their mistakes and progress. Get reliable data to meet reading goals Early elementary school years are crucial for building foundational skills that shape a child’s education.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

For today’s readers, studying literature takes place in the context of a complex world filled with the noise of social and short-form media. Essential Questions: over 300 question prompts designed to engage student curiosity and provide a starting point for literature research.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

During tricky situations in the new PBS KIDS show “Elinor Wonders Why,” a curious rabbit directs a question to viewers, pausing to give them a chance to answer. AI is coming to early childhood education. In another study group, adults read books without pausing to ask guided questions. We saw huge benefits.”

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Fulfilled and Frazzled Katharine Strunk, dean of the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate College of Education, wasnt surprised by the studys findings about teachers feeling toward their workplace versus their workload.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

In “Love's Labour's Lost,” a comedy that William Shakespeare wrote in the 16th century, the character Biron asks, “What is the end of study?” Questioning the end, or purpose, of education is an exercise that modern students, professors and college leaders engage in all the time.

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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. After all, it’s based on an experiment that used a “precise” scale, studied a decent number of subjects and measured change over time. She concluded that the supplement promotes weight loss. Is that claim accurate, or faulty?

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Redefining possibilities in education. IXL Learning has revolutionized educational technology since its founding in 1998. Today, the company leads the world of education through innovation and provides a diverse set of products and services that help learners develop skills in math, literacy, language and more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2022

But researchers who study the relationship say that the field is still in its infancy, and new methodologies and funding sources are needed to understand it and push us toward a healthier environment for kids online. “The One meta-analysis of 12 different studies found depression correlated with time spent on social media, although weakly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others. In other words, for low-income and underrepresented minority groups, living near a community college can be a crucial way to gain access to any higher education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to a recent study , this ratio has stayed stable for years, but teachers are under more pressure and are working more hours than ever before – an average of 52-58 hours per week. Worries about using AI for academic help and answering questions led to many discussions on its role in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Largely missing from many conversations, however, is a discussion of how scientific approaches may be used to study ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in the context of higher ed. Our instructors have questions about retention and academic success — they want to understand how the use of these technologies relate to student outcomes.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Her most recent study looks at how math anxiety influences how high school students choose to study (or not), resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor performance. There's something about the anxiety itself that potentially impacts our ability to focus, think in the moment, and actually want to dive in and study.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. In prior years, this unit culminated with an essay in which students responded to the essential question. To what end? Constitution?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2021

In his 2012 book “ When Can You Trust the Experts ,” Dan Willingham’s main objective is to help everyday teachers (and administrators and family members) determine which new educational approaches are well-supported by research, and thus worthy of your time and money. But the onus does not rest solely on educators.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The Newark Board of Education in March approved a data-sharing agreement with Khan Academy to study whether the tool was effective “in the North Ward schools,” according to the agreement. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2021

This question became even more timely and relevant [during the pandemic] because students and teachers find it really hard to concentrate in both face-to-face and virtual environments, especially virtual environments,” he argues. That turned into a career in education, and some 16 years in the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? When teachers make two recordings, we can already see them asking more open-ended questions in the second one.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Studying stars from the surface of the moon. Ten higher education institutions across the U.S. The technology supporting these metaversities comes from Engage, an Irish company that has produced virtual-reality experiences depicting the Titanic voyage, the Apollo 11 space mission and the bombing of Berlin during World War II.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Multiple studies and surveys have documented the ever-narrowing digital divide. This study gives a powerful argument for why we need to reframe the definition of ‘access.’” Education technology is going to make up a bigger proportion of what we’re doing in school moving forward,” she says.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2024

“In a normal situation, you end up taking data from learning websites and apps and giving it to researchers for them to study and for them to analyze it to learn from,” JP Slavinsky, SafeInsights executive director and OpenStax technical director, says. Instead, we're taking the researchers’ questions to that data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. Lance and Kachel’s three-year study, The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? EdSurge: What is the SLIDE study? In that time, he has seen a lot of changes.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

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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

JUNE 15, 2021

And that was really the foundation for his education technology—that we'll build machines and they'll give students—just like pigeons—positive reinforcement and students—just like pigeons—will learn new skills.” He often experimented on pigeons, some of which he even trained to play ping-pong. Many of B.F. And I'm not a pessimist.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Other outlets have shared worries from students and privacy advocates over how much information these tools are collecting, through features like eye-tracking technology and requirements that students show their entire room and provide personal information during sessions which are often recorded. They asked for responses by December 17.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Proponents say the model improves student outcomes by encouraging more interaction among students and professors, and many studies have been conducted to measure the efficacy of the approach. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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