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Flipping the classroom together—from 3,000 miles away

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For the last few years, this enterprising duo has been flipping their English classes, co-moderating a weekly Twitter education chat, presenting at conferences, planning lessons, and collaborating regularly from opposite sides of the country. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

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That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Often routine textbook readings aren’t graded, she says, so a student likely won’t prioritize it. A few weeks later, the students went back to the same park and noted the difference in the animals and plant life.

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Meet The Newest Liberal Art: Coding

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Professors may draw on textbooks like “ Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities ” and also on eclectic “texts” from a variety of media, such as the art websites of Rafaël Rozendaal, the interactive explanatory projects of Nicky Case and the visual essays published by The Pudding. Anderson says.

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A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025

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Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of teachers who relied on curriculum outside of textbooks created their own materials in 2023, and that pattern is likely to continue. Shed be better off with entirely software-directed instruction, not a hybrid.

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

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But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes. “Everyone’s worried about people having to learn how to code,” notes Eileen Murphy.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.”

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How the ‘Contract Cheating’ Industry Has Gotten More Aggressive in Recruiting Students

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Most of his customers did not speak English as their first language, he says, and others seemed to lack the preparation for the work they were being asked to do. We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.”

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