Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. Civics Education Is at a Crossroads This knowledge gap is due in large part to the sidelining of K-12 social studies since the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind. They were roleplaying. Let me set the scene for you.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social studies teacher Ben McCray had a similar experience: “I've learned to have things available by doing a recording, a screencast, something that is captured for later.” McCray says, “I have information about the Punic Wars and Hannibal that’s not available in the textbook. It's just something that I've studied a lot.”

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Elementary math textbooks claim to be aligned with Common Core standards, but they’re sometimes not, Copur-Gencturk says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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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. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

“Some of the apps that the students will get to experience dig a little deeper into things they’ve only been able to interact with via the web or a textbook,” she says. It’s one thing for kids to read about stars, to pore over textbook diagrams and then, on a clear night, try to square what they’ve learned with the bright specks in the sky.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

To find fitting educational shows to put on the air, representatives of Southern California stations worked quickly to dig through PBS LearningMedia libraries , which contain resources designed over the past decade for use in the classroom that coordinate with curriculum standards. LA schools did indeed close. For example, from 9 a.m.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Darren : I wanted to integrate STEM into my social studies classroom, so that when kids are learning about history and the pioneers of science, technology, engineering, and math, they are learning about those subjects simultaneously and forming natural connections. Describe how you used the product.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. Educators design lesson plans as quests, with a digital map that marks progress points throughout the lesson. The Classcraft dashboard.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Matt Miller, the Ditch That Textbook founder, was instrumental in creating various templates for the classroom. For social studies teachers, Twitter is a great resource to study news stories and the concept of civic reasoning. The assignment followed various readings about the two figures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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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. But these challenges are surmountable. Regardless of state borders, U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. We are most affected by social influences between eight and ten years old, which rarely expand our knowledge of Black histories. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

The CODiEs honor the most innovative educational technology products around the world. IXL’s recent achievements mark its sixth CODiE win in five years: IXL secured a second consecutive Foundational ELA win and is also a three-time winner of the prestigious Best Educational App award. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Educators using fiction to teach the Holocaust should be mindful to supplement stories and novels with historical context. Pedagogy matters as well.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

When EdSurge checked the collection in July, the site listed about 3,600 materials for Social Studies, and now shows about the same. Leaders of school districts and state boards of education have been looking for repositories of open educational resources in part to respond to a U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. Tools like TextGenome create new opportunities for OER to resemble more traditional textbooks without placing more demands on the teacher. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing.

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Edsurge

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. and Kharbeet is 5,000 miles away in Turkey.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. OERs are openly-licensed educational materials that can be downloaded, modified and shared with others to help support student learning. Source: EdSurge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century. Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

In math, 14 percent of adoptions are OER, compared to 4 percent for English/language arts, 2 percent for science and 1 percent for history and social studies. “That’s a big change from about five years ago, when it was essentially invisible,” Seaman says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In April 2019, Renaissance acquired progress monitoring tools provider Early Learning Labs , followed a month later by buying Freckle Education , a provider of online lessons, exercises and assessments for math, English language arts, social studies and science.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. “What was really unique about the property was that it was equally popular at school and at home, and you can say that about very few brands.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. And it could easily be a four-week block that could be put into a social studies program. I think my technique is a combination. News literacy should be a requirement for every student in this country. And all students should know that.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. High-quality curricular materials that emphasize historical thinking skills, such as the Stanford History Education Group’s “Think Like a Historian” framework, are now readily available on the Internet. That’s no surprise.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Discovery Education , a large provider of print and digital textbooks and curriculum, is taking a big step away from its parent company Discovery Communications, best known for its broadcast TV channels. It also offers streaming education videos and professional development services.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI). TCI created the History Alive! I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In an earlier article on computational thinking , I offered teasers of how CT could be integrated into language arts and social studies, in addition to math and science. Just as algorithms written in psuedo-code or flowcharts help learners make the step from problem to program, so do appropriate data structures.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

“Political socialization, a lot of that happens online,” says Ioana Literat, professor of communication, media and learning technologies design at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “We We like to think that it happens in school in civics class, or the social studies classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

But, yes, at the end of the day, if more people, more Americans understood what teachers are teaching in history classrooms, theyd have a very different attitude about how to fix some of the problems of public education. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. We feel so polarized right now.

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