Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Changes to a major standardized test usually take months—or even years—to develop and are typically announced well in advance of the first official exam sitting. The changes were made due to school closures prompted by the spread of COVID-19—which in a growing number of states may last until fall. Not so during a pandemic.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments and exams are held online. Part of the issue when designing assignments and exams to deter cheating is recognizing what cheating in 2020 looks like.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Nonprofit VHS Learning is partnering with Continental Han Feng Network Technology (CHF) to develop a full Chinese language high school program. We know there is a huge demand for Chinese language instruction, but not all high schools have the staff or resources to offer these courses.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. Part 4 will offer a comprehensive exam prep.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2021

These CTE and elective courses add to the 150+ courses already available in the EdisonLearning library and expand schools’ access to well-rounded content to support students’ college, career, civic and life readiness. We are excited to be a part of EdisonLearning’s solutions for schools and students,” said Steve. About EdisonLearning.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Available as part of the Brainly mobile web and desktop platform, Test Prep is purpose-built to help students prepare for the tests specific to their classroom learnings or subject curriculum, expanding on teachers’ lessons during the school day. By optimizing their study routines, Learners can also optimize their academic success.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

All of my colleagues from graduate school are scattered across the country at different universities, they're all finding it too,” says Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University andinterim head of the Honor Code Council at the university, which handles issues of academic dishonesty. It's just impossible. And we move on.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Following its review of IXL’s quasi-experimental research, The IXL effect: Measuring the impact of IXL Math and IXL Language Arts in Pennsylvania schools , the ERC determined that the study met ESSA Tier 2 standards for evidence-based interventions in each subject and added the resources to its list.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. While the content of the course has changed almost completely since I took it 40 years ago, in my opinion it is still way too based on memorizing dozens of formulas for the exams.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. To take advantage of the near-ubiquity of cellular service, some school districts have recently distributed mobile hotspots to students. The only other thing I would say for school districts to think about is, it’s more expensive to do cellular.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 4, 2021

In one of my favorite sections of The Passionate Learner , Robert Fried says: If we are to act boldly on behalf of passionate learners, we will have to stop wasting so much time in school. Most teachers and students waste 50 percent or more of their time in school. The fiction of most school mission statements.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Often these are assignments, exercises and drills that resemble what one may find in a textbook. And perform worse on tests.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Drivers for Wi-Fi adoption in K-12 school districts. Mobile devices are the pencil, paper, and textbooks for students today. When hundreds of students with tablets, netbooks, and laptops hit your school’s wireless network at the same time, online learning can come to a stop.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how to orchestrate a digital transformation in your school. It is incredible, because lot of schools have invested a lot of money in Chromebooks and they are limited their uses to strictly Google Classroom or when they're typing. . Let us say the kids are learning about the Silk Road.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

There’s a high-stakes exam that’s created an entire industry selling test-preparation products and services to people willing to shell out big bucks for help honing their skills and strategies. It’s the exam to become a licensed construction contractor. A full collection of exam books can cost thousands of dollars.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Technology is an ideal vehicle for teachers to better blend classroom instruction with learning opportunities occuring outside of the traditional school day — and outside of the brick-and-mortar school building. . MORE FROM EDTECH: CSee how schools use virtual reality to improve assistive learning programs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Her most recent study looks at how math anxiety influences how high school students choose to study (or not), resulting in a self-fulfilling prophecy of poor performance. We're hearing educators worry about learning loss for children in all subjects, including math, now that they’ve been back to school in person.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. states , as well as the ACT, SAT and International Baccalaureate exams, now rely on Desmos to power its online graphing tools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Today’s college students who enroll right out of high school are less likely to open emails than they are to look at text messages, experts say.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As this school year approaches an end and students start to plan on college life, the Ask a Tech Teacher team has suggestions on how to make that work well: Balancing Academics and Social Life in College College life is an exhilarating journey filled with learning, discovery, and growth. But, why is balance so crucial?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Summative: the more comprehensive tools used to measure what a student has learned at the end of a school term, such as exams and final projects. For Donovan, it comes down to the why: “School districts have a lot of data, typically, from a lot of different places. And it’s mind-bending stuff.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team has put them together into an article to remind students–and teachers what students should know when they leave high school: Preparing Students for Future Careers with Soft Skills Training on Financial Decisions Teachers hold many responsibilities outside regular education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

A couple of years ago, Mohannad Arbaji had a problem, one he could only solve by going back to school. So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. Students weren’t completing lessons on their own outside of school. Arbaji realized that the original design of ChalkTalk needed an overhaul.

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Schools English Exams Testing 107

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She took inspiration from what she found (though she said she didn’t copy anything verbatim), and the site made her feel like she had a handle on how others using the same textbook were running their classes. Or, as she put it, “It gave me an idea that at least I was on track.” per month, or $119.40 for one up-front payment for a year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Almost a decade after Lynzi Ziegenhagen began work on tools to help K-12 schools with data analysis and visualization, she faced an important decision. Schoolzilla’s life began in 2009 as a project within Aspire Public Schools, a charter network with schools across California and in Memphis. schools and more than 90 countries.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. middle-school market. A couple years later, GlassLab released a school-friendly adaptation of the tower-defense game “Plants vs. Zombies 2.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

Teaching students the intricacies of anatomy via AR is already heightening their spatial reasoning and making it easier to internalize advanced concepts textbooks and videos can’t bring to life as vividly. Bringing concepts to life in the real world using augmented reality is also gaining traction.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Founded in the United Kingdom, the Raspberry Pi Foundation set out to inspire young people to study computer science by inventing a programmable computer for the price of a textbook. Raspberry Pi’s big goal is for every school everywhere to offer a world-leading computing education to all young people. Political will plays a role, too.

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Education Science Internet Accessibility 189

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. What are some examples of teaching techniques?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

students, despite calls for schools to focus more on global citizenship. 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.” Sara Rowe and Lennelle Gilpin, who teach middle school geography in Wentzville, Mo.,

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Subjects were willing to offer feedback via the bot, and also expressed support for further relying on chatbots to achieve some of the course improvements they desired, such as getting help answering basic questions about textbooks, office hours and due dates. He likes that the artificially intelligent tool relates to his tech curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

A school in Baixiang County, China. The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. Growing up, she participated in seven extracurricular programs each week, she estimates, “just to keep my leading positions in school.”

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