eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Studies have shown that in higher-income households, where parents have higher levels of tech proficiency, many parents educate their children on various uses of the internet and online applications. But when schools support students in transferring their skills to their parents, they are narrowing the digital divide. Remove obstacles.

Language

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

A study of open educational resource collections found that nearly 90% of higher education online repositories were created either in Europe or in North America; 92% of the material in the Open Educational Resources Commons global library is in English. Is it equitable? Is it scalable?

Culture

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This would not be possible without the efforts of our Information Technology Department successfully providing all of our students with Chromebooks and internet access during the pandemic shutdown. Ronald Taylor, Superintendent of the Schools of South Orange and Maplewood.

Quizzes

eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Of our 30,000 students, 34 percent are English learners (EL), and 52 percent are students living in poverty. Prior to rolling out our implementation plan, we engaged researchers from Rutgers University to conduct a study on internet access in our communities living in poverty. We’re located approximately five miles from the U.S.-Mexico

Internet

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

K-12 students lacked access to a working device, reliable high-speed internet or both. Up to 60 percent of disconnected students cannot pay for internet access or devices. This especially impacts students who are English language learners. When schools closed last March, roughly 16 million U.S. Money is an issue.

Distance Learning

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. Common Sense released its newest report, Connection and Control: Case Studies of Media Use Among Lower-Income Minority Youth and Parents.

English

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Duolingo Passes Its English Test Don’t worry, the pandemic hasn’t shuttered Duolingo’s popular gamified language learning app. But it has helped the Pittsburgh-based company promote a second service it has quietly offered since 2016: the Duolingo English Test. The company has seen 1,500 percent year-over-year growth among test takers.

English

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Districts distributed devices and internet providers allowed free connections. 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.

Learning

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

Reading

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

One recent study of school spending estimated that up to two-thirds of software licenses are never activated. Teachers should not have ferret out findings from a stack of research studies just to figure out what programs will be a good fit for their students. Here are five questions to ask when assessing the strength of the evidence.

Study

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Districts are more frequently asking for their own student and teacher product usage data to perform their own studies. Then, look at a correlational study, run a comparison study, and run a randomized experiment. It’s common to run comparison studies, since randomized experiments can often be time consuming and expensive.

Confidentiality

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

A different way of thinking for a more effective strategy Christensen’s groundbreaking theory—disruptive innovation—emerged from studying a pattern he noticed across many industries. Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses.

Education

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of services, including math, science, reading, writing assistance, and college prep, all available online from anywhere with an internet connection. Skill-Building Tools Practice tests, lessons, and study guides tailored to individual learning needs.

Essay

EdTech Magazine

MAY 5, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy. Those broader social, cultural and political frameworks,” she says, “that’s one area where you don’t get just naturally from participating on the internet.”. There’s a bit of an imposter syndrome.

Teaching

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said. Personally, I do not have any type of internet at home. In rural communities, the problem is even worse — only one in three can access the internet at home. However, students may have no internet access when they get home.

Internet

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Currently, Roybi has about 500 lessons, stories and songs, promising to introduce children in school or at home to over 70,000 words in English, Spanish and Chinese. Such features in other internet-connected devices that can record children have proven controversial in the past. The company did not disclose their names.

Language

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines. But educators disagree about how they should respond.

Education

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. Worse, as I began to make more discreet inquiries, I learned that I had many more students with internet access issues. Check out one of our sample WiFi maps, in English and Spanish, here.).

Internet

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

how the internet works. Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. Should we teaching coding without computational thinking or computer science?

Science

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Imagine a classroom with students deeply engaged in their lessons, eagerly solving math problems and exploring English skills through fun digital games. Students using Prodigy Math or Prodigy English enjoy the storyline and get excited about the learning content. Prodigy conducted two studies that are relevant here.

Game-Based Learning

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

According to an efficacy study conducted by research nonprofit WestEd that evaluated Newsela in two large school districts, using the tool twice a week led to two times the reading gains in achievement scores and three times the gains when used daily. The technology is there,” Sanchez says. There are lots of places to go,” he says.

Reading

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2020

Adding to his troubles, Bigai lacked proficiency in English. His own lessons around that time with an English tutor inspired him to switch his company to language learning. Even if he earns only enough to pay a phone or internet bill, de Angelis says he’s giving the platform a try because teaching is a passion of his.

Language

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2021

But with the pandemic, students are taking on jobs in greater numbers or going full-time in jobs they already had, says Avary Carhill-Poza, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts Boston who has been studying these students throughout the pandemic. targeted specifically to English learners. In Alexandria, Va.,

Schools

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: Edlyft HQ: San Francisco Founded: 2019 For $250 a month per student, Edlyft provides computer science majors with group tutoring, study groups and guidance from people already proficient in the subject. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions.

Exams

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Not only was I unprepared for the levels of math and study skills required, but as a bleeding-heart, 17-year-old, I wanted to do something to help my community. Soon after, I fell in love with education by volunteering to teach English as a Second Language outside my classes.

Science

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

In an effort to help districts cope with an ever-growing student population speaking languages other than English, NetSupport is adding multiple languages to its keyword monitoring software, which lets schools keep an eye on student communications by automatically flagging certain phrases or words. In 2014, a record of 63.5 million U.S.

Language

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. I’ve always relished these times because they’re part of what makes social studies special. Social studies teachers must support their students as they encounter: Major attacks on journalism. Evolving forms of media delivery.

Social Studies

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I have also held class discussions about how AI works and how it is trained with information from the internet.

Teachers

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In a separate study , Lin used models to determine that students’ final grades began to suffer once class sizes reached 45 students—a number he uses as an upper limit. Instead, Lin and his co-authors contend that various environmental factors, such as teacher experience and the subject being taught, should help determine class size.

Online Learning

EdTech Magazine

MAY 12, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

EdTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2020

Some students may not have access to the devices needed to complete e-learning activities, while others may not be able to connect to the internet from home. That’s particularly true for students who are English language learners, or ELLs. MORE ON EDTECH: Read about the digital tools that can boost the success of e-learning.

English

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

For example, school leaders might decide to use focus on-campus time and capacity on core subjects—such as English language arts, math, science and social studies—and then deliver all non-core subjects via a purely virtual format.

Blended Learning