eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2022

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that we must invest in educational technology. When schools use technology to improve the quality and quantity of educational content, learners will thrive. This spurs student creativity and improves learning and collaboration. Increased Student Engagement.

Education

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

This hands-on approach integrates science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts, promoting problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration. 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.

Technology

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Among the no cost activities are four new Virtual Field Trips open to students, educators, and their families, a professional learning event from the STEM Careers Coalition , and the Discovery Education’s celebrated Discovery Educator Network VirtCon. 11/10/2020 at 4 p.m. EST. Professional Learning.

STEM

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Librarians and media specialists are now tasked with not only ensuring students and educators have easy access to essential physical media and textbooks, but also efficiently managing an infinite amount of digital resources.

Schools

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

EdSurge: Why did you decide to create a coloring book, of all things, about Black women in STEM? And then also thinking about role models and how a lot of these amazing women are written out of the textbooks, and we don't hear about them. What have your experiences with representation in STEM been like?

STEM

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students who took multiple community college courses that used only free or low-cost OER materials earned more credits over time than their peers who took classes that used traditional course materials such as textbooks, according to a new study. I had a very good student come to me and say, ‘I can’t afford this textbook.’

Textbooks

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.

STEM

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2018

Carnegie Learning , a Pittsburgh-based provider of math curriculum and training resources, is teaming up with the Smithsonian Institution on a “strategic alliance” to “develop new product solutions to help address the growing need for improved and expanded STEM education,” wrote Barry Malkin, Carnegie’s CEO, in an email.

STEM

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.

Mobile Devices

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Unpopular with students, the class didn’t seem to be preparing them for a career in STEM. A lot of those students are people who might not have stuck it out in STEM, according to the study. A Barrier to STEM? On the current trajectory, the Pew researchers argue, it’s unlikely that STEM degree attainment will alter this.

Math

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers.

Math

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. This is crucial in STEM fields, which are haunted by the ‘lone genius’ and ‘white men in lab coats’ stereotypes.”

Science

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Fluent City and its teachers use proprietary 200-page textbooks as guides for language classes offered at seven different levels. Fluent City’s growth and emphasis on the liberal arts comes at a time when STEM education has been generating a lot of buzz and funding. Scaling a culture school.

Culture

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Textbook publishers, once considered likely and logical buyers for education technology startups, have lost a bit of their appetite. based education company has acquired Zyante, Inc., the developer of zyBooks , a digital courseware platform for computer science and STEM courses. It did make one deal this January.)

Textbooks

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails. In most states, textbooks are expected to be age-appropriate, but it just means designed for what the ‘average’ kid knows and can do.”

Science

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

.—$20,000 dollars of student debt, 14 months, one thesis, two internships, $1,500 dollars worth of textbooks, and countless sleepless nights later and I finally earned those two little letters following my name. Open Textbooks. Perhaps awareness is a buzzword, what we really need to do is educate. The Double-Dipping Problem.

Textbooks

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. ” More on education reform: 5 Things You Need to Know about 3D Printing.

Education

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

With billion-dollar fundraises on top of billion-dollar valuations , it’s no mystery that the education technology industry is attracting top dollars from investors. The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education.

Science

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

Should such features emerge, that would make the platform a free competitor to systems like Knewton, the for-profit company that was an early player in adaptive learning and now focuses on selling low-cost textbooks built around open content. A lot of textbooks and any other scientific texts don’t have this story component,” he says.

Textbooks

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. And despite some “uneven” progress in recent years, STEM fields are just not as diverse as industry leaders would like. Critics have alleged the framework rejected rigor for “wokeism.”

Math

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

The monthly webinar Helping STEM Students Thrive brings together national thought leaders who share ideas for broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM education.

Students

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers. They were the most powerful companies in education. The largest companies in 2010 were the textbook providers.

Education

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

A small but growing library of augmented reality books, consisting of 25 children’s titles, is part of a research partnership between UTSA Libraries and the College of Education and Human Development (COEHD). Ilna Colemere, an instructional technology coordinator for COEHD, is heading up the project. Ilna Colemere.

Teachers

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Kinney’s distinguished 25-year career in education began in Pennsylvania’s public school system at the Sharpsville Area School District , where he served as the district’s Instructional Technology Coordinator. Previously, Campbell led the creation and launch of the Discovery Education’s Techbook line of business.

Textbooks

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in West Bengal, India Kintali fell behind in a course on complexity theory (which is too complex to explain here). Rather than rush to catch up, he opted to move through the textbook at his own pace so he could truly understand the concepts. Kintali’s answer to the evolution of the textbook is.

Textbooks

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples? So you need to make your material as relevant and engaging as possible, especially in STEM-related courseware. Number one, you want your students to be engaged.

Online Learning

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

Gamification

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. percent drop that’s the largest decline higher education has seen in five decades.

Achievement

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.

Teaching

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2021

Students who move, especially during the middle of the academic year, must adapt to a lot: new classes, new textbooks, even a new social scene. We’re figuring out ways to support each other,” says Mathew Costa, director of STEM disciplines at Revere Public Schools. Being the new kid in school is never easy. In Chelsea, Mass.—a

Students

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For example, a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus found that, among students who perform poorly in intro STEM classes, those who are underrepresented minorities are even less likely to end up earning STEM degrees than their white, male counterparts. And the pandemic may be exacerbating this situation.

STEM

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. Written by Darren, a 6th grade teacher from California.

Social Studies

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You see pictures of kids from 20 years ago, where they are sitting in rows with a textbook and a teacher is still standing in the front of the room. But today we’re seeing pictures of kids still sitting in front of rows with the teacher standing in front of the classroom–instead of a textbook, they have an iPad or a laptop.

Education

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

Every year, during the first week of May, people nationwide take a moment to show their appreciation for all that teachers and educators do on National Teacher Appreciation Day. a manufacturer of education technology, works to develop educational products that will assist teachers in the classroom.

Teachers

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Advocates of OER boast that in addition to being more affordable, these resources can provide more up-to-date content because digital OER can be updated more frequently than traditional textbooks. For example, the program can first focus on subject areas like STEM or language arts, or grade bands like elementary or high school.

Textbooks

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Although it’s true that the law requires this kind of assistive technology at some schools, I believe ASR is now more than just assistive technology; it’s on its way to becoming foundational educational technology for all students. Source: Echo360.

Study

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education.

Instructors