eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. It guides students from simple to complex skills, adapting to individual student needs and offering explicit instruction with real-time feedback.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BUDAPEST/LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) – An acclaimed and multi award-winning English As A Second Language (ESL)appin daily use with over 20,000 classrooms across Europe is launching in the US. BOOKR Class presents storybooks in a highly engaging format to focus on reading in English.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Now, teachers and students can take advantage of new features inside Studio, the embedded creation and collaboration tool, as well as ready-to-use SOS instructional strategies templates, a reimagined Professional Learning Center, and comprehensive English Language Learner (ELL) Center. English Language Learner Center .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

English Language Proficiency Standards ( ELPS ) are integrated throughout in a way that requires students to think critically, understand and learn new concepts, process complex academic material, and interact and communicate in English within the science classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. This academic year has been especially pivotal, as we are now in full implementation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

English teachers can ask students to share an image of an annotated poem. Summarize the main ideas from a chapter in a textbook. As they observe students engaged in conversation, they simply circle the language that most closely aligns with what they are seeing. That way all of the pictures are in one place for quick reference.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day. A language is something to absorb, not to memorize. Beniko Mason , that’s helping to reshape what acquiring a language in school looks like. Taking Things Despacio.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. In them, an animated avatar made to look like the 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace taught the basics of the Python programming language. He’s not the only person thinking this way.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When asked what research and evidence he believes shows one-to-one computing will work in West Virginia, Martirano reiterated that an Internet-accessing digital device doesn’t have the same limits on content that “static” and “finite” textbooks do. He said he’s yet to finalize what that agenda will be.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Editable ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. How Micro-credentials Support English learners . public schools are English Language Learners (ELLs). Mathematical Language Routines – Designing and Using Information Gap Activities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

No longer relegated to using textbooks as their core instructional materials, teachers look to their institutions for help selecting, aggregating, and then delivering relevant content to their pupils. Pros and cons of building a district-specific online platform. Hiring help.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

SplashLearn’s game-based learning platform—available in 150+ countries and already used by more than 40 million children—features thousands of research-informed games aimed at instructing young learners in English language arts and math. We are also going to use this funding to expand our English language arts program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

While some courses in the minor incorporate instruction in specific programming languages, others focus more on the history of technology and explore computer-enabled creative processes. It’s a cool artistic approach” to answering the question of “what are the consequences in a fiction?” Anderson says.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Immediately everybody’s mind goes to uploading chapters of the textbook and worksheets to Google Classroom. The point is: Don’t just upload scanned textbooks and worksheets and think it’s going to be a good learning experience. People often forget that the learning content is one small fraction of an effective learning experience.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. Grade 9 Geography was in trouble.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Another Language A reader from Utah : “For me the breakthrough was finding out math is just another language with its own grammar and syntax. It is a language that is very eloquent at describing what we see in the natural world, and like all languages conveys meaning and understanding. The issue is algebra skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2016

Educators are increasing integration and creative adoption by using popular digital content in a variety of innovative ways, including using digital novel sets for English language arts classes. The Book Thief, The Giver among most popular digital novels in schools. “The Book Thief” (Random House Children’s Books).

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

English teachers can ask students to share an image of an annotated poem. Summarize the main ideas from a chapter in a textbook. As they observe students engaged in conversation, they simply circle the language that most closely aligns with what they are seeing. That way all of the pictures are in one place for quick reference.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. “I spend less time waiting for students to copy notes and more time helping students work problems,” Sowinski said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. In November, it also divested its language-learning business, Wall Street English, for $100 million. Speaking on CNBC , Fallon quipped that the “biggest competitor in higher education is second-hand sales of our own textbooks.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Global publisher Macmillan Education partners with Blinklearning to help teachers, students access digital textbooks and other resources. Macmillan Education will expand its next-generation digital services by collaborating with Blinklearning, drawing on its technical expertise in delivering educational digital content.

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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. They’ve learned that Kharbeet was studying English literature at Damascus University when she fled the country three-and-a-half years ago.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Imagine sending a teenage driver onto a highway in an unfamiliar area, where road signs are in a foreign language, lanes change direction without warning, fog and rain obscure visibility, the car has faulty brakes, and the passengers are giving bad directions. Madness, right? But these challenges are surmountable.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

In this episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast, we hear from four educators who share how technology tools engage their students and expanded their classrooms, whether that’s connecting with students around the world or learning a new language through technology and how that can spark community. Here’s part one and two.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Lemma Shomali: Our research tells us that as K-12 education moves away from scripted textbooks, teachers must evaluate digital resources from many sources: the open web, content providers, etc. EdSurge: How can integrating content directly into curriculum support teachers? Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

International Children’s Digital Library The ICDL offers over 4,600 digital children’s books in over 59 languages that exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. Some books are available in multiple languages and some are audio. Each book can be read or listened to by the student.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. Within the Providence Public School District, nearly 92 percent of students are people of color while the teaching force is almost 80 percent white. Enter F.E.E.D.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She interviewed 14 teachers, mostly in English language arts and history, from around the country. The study found that the problems are especially notable when schools are deciding which textbooks to use and which curriculum standards to adopt.

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