Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” They were roleplaying.

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History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Key points: Books featuring licensed characters can instill a love of reading We are just beginning the uphill climb to improve student reading scores NAEP scores show disheartening trends for the lowest-performing students For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Holden, my 21-month-old, has fallen in love.

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Reading Fairness History English 217

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

Click here to read Part 1 on Gen Z and parents , and click here to read Part 2 on Gen Z and librarians. Check back every Monday in April to read the next installment!]. [ Editor’s Note : This story is Part 3 of our month-long series on “What it means to teach Gen Z.” Next page: Gen Z curriculum in action).

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Curriculum Fairness Textbooks Critical Thinking 186

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

It’s fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits just as easily in K-12 classrooms as it does in higher education. “Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality.

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Fairness Learning Styles Physical Education History 189

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

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. showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Today, I teach world history and geography to newcomers in a Title I school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where nearly 60 percent of the 1,550 students enrolled in our school are Hispanic and speak Spanish, and many speak a Mayan dialect. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class.

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History Culture Science Fairness 212

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

At the end of every year, EdSurge rounds up a collection of its top stories based on clicks, shares and website traffic—and no year in our short history has been quite as dramatic as this one. Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? Here’s why at-risk students should be top priority. Actually, Yes. What Will Schools Do in the Fall?

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Counselling Attention Hybrid Learning Writing 181

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

beloved for its ornate ceilings, historic reading room and, well, everything it represents. Reidel has been teaching high school civics and history for over two decades. Or read the partial transcript, which has been lightly edited for clarity. The Library of Congress, situated right behind the U.S. The law is the law.”

History 181

History Social Studies Study Writing 181

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m a big advocate of rediscovering the joy of reading for pleasure. People read less and less for pleasure and spend way too much time looking at screens. But I think rediscovering the joy of reading for pleasure is important, and research supports that. On that note, what have you recently read?

Fairness 154

Fairness Textbooks Math Reading 154

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Named in honor of the late Scholastic Chairman and CEO, Richard (Dick) Robinson, this annual award recognizes a CGCS member school district for demonstrated progress in advancing reading achievement. . As the Richard M. Robinson Literacy Champion Award-winner, the School District of Philadelphia has selected its own General George G.

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Achievement Fairness Schools Blended Learning 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I While there’s focus on getting kids to socialize, school leaders and administrators also have one eye trained on the slipping reading and math scores in their districts.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Since his days as an elementary student in Texas, Richard Collins has loved history. He’s read about, pondered and strived to emulate remarkable Americans from Dwight D. Richard Collins' Reading List. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind. Twitter @rhcoll.

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Testing History Curriculum Fairness 132

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? Imagine a world where you could read everyones mind, but no one could read yours. Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time? Is it fair to judge someone based on social media posts from years ago?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2024

Common Cyber Threats Facing Educators Every profession has had its fair share of internet-based troubles. Deactivate your browser’s search-suggestion and auto-fill options and delete your search history. Read the data protection policies of online platforms before signing up.

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Internet Confidentiality Teachers Fairness 167

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. Recently I had my students reading about Ancient Rome.

Social Studies 126

Social Studies Teachers STEM Fairness 126

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2023

History Assignments: Showcase the key events and figures of the American Revolution or present a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement. Create Websites With Canva Yes, you read the headline correctly, you can use Canva to create a simple website! Social Studies Projects: Present different cultures, religions, or political systems.

Assignments 148

Assignments Learning Science History 148

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. When I look at a social studies curriculum, I'm not just thinking, Can students construct an evidentiary argument after reading a source in response to a question?

Social Studies 182

Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory 182

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

In her 2018 bestseller “ The Library Book ,” author Susan Orlean uses the history of a fire that destroyed parts of the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986 to explore transformations that libraries and librarians have undergone over the last hundred years. librarians) are the ones who decide where they want to go and live with those choices.

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Schools History Disabilities Fairness 113

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Take the US history course you develop it. Now give me a version of that course for a student who’s a little bit behind on their reading skills. We defined digital learning as all these instances where students are learning outside of the time and place constraints that you see in a traditional school in a traditional.

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Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Listen to the conversation, or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. but the ability for me to read their faces and read their body language, all of those kinds of things that a good instructor is doing, doesn't work as well on Zoom. So certainly there is the possibility. Lecture is a good tool.

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Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

The two institutions that are profiled in the book are Colgate and Whitman, [in] different parts of the country but both institutions with very strong histories in the liberal arts, very recognized as high quality, well-endowed, financially solid. bucolic notion of sitting and reading “Moby Dick” and discussing it.

Art 188

Art Evaluation Coaching Ethics 188

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. Finding age-appropriate and reading level-appropriate resources can be hard, too. We're going to do LGBTQIA history now." How do we find resources? How do we do PD?

Curriculum 110

Curriculum Disabilities Social Studies History 110

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Districts will move to adopt the Science of Reading to increase reading gains: The research to support this approach to teaching and the efficacy of it in application is strong. Teachers want programs that they can implement immediately: not just something they read from a book. –Lupita Knittel, President, 7 Mindsets.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

A student used ChatGPT as an aid by prompting it to summarize course readings and make them easier to understand. A Google Docs version history where it appears as though text was copied and pasted in all at once? This is not fair” (Syed, 2023). Which of these examples is a violation of the policy? 2023; Perkins et al.,

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

From designing custom art images to creating “Soundful: AI Music Generator” songs and videos to interacting with historical figures through “Hello History” fun chats, AI has the capability to boost education and deep learning. With AI, educators can create more differentiated learning tools and enhance personalization.

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Plagiarism Ethics Intelligence Education 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Siemens: It seemed like a good opportunity to expand the audience and get a message out about the importance and history of openness, and where things might be trending. Because, most people in the field have some view of, “You create a more fair, just, and compassionate world by having a more educated population.” And, why now?

Education 145

Education Participation Fairness Accessibility 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2015

Read through these, try them out, and then add a comment with what you think: Mindmeister . You can playback the history tool, which makes it a video of the mindmap’s development, adding one piece at a time. I’ve tried all of these and have found three favorite tools, one from each category, that work for me. Insider tips.

Fairness 144

Fairness Curriculum Critical Thinking History 144

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

“Some of them sounded really scripted,” Bajkiewicz says of the audio assignments he got, and he wonders if some students simply requested an answer from a chatbot that they then read aloud. Was that something that came out of AI? I don’t know,” he adds. But he says there are tradeoffs to that approach, including issues of student privacy.

Assignments 148

Assignments Instructors Writing History 148

Faculty Focus

APRIL 30, 2023

Due to my personal history as a college administrator (thus I was known to nearly everyone), and someone who enjoyed a spontaneous conversation, I took up my department chair’s offer to host a weekly online meeting place. Spring 2021 offered options to teach hybrid (some folks online, some folks in-person) courses.

Fairness 115

Fairness Writing Research Design History 115

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The program offers free access to digital reading resources, engaging families and supporting language learning across the community. Reading a book, writing a book. They appreciated it because they could read at home with their kids, either in English or in Spanish, and it just got the whole family together. Big part of.

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Technology Schools English Mobile Devices 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

She lives the generational gap that many educators may experience in their classroom: Her own 18-year-old son doesn’t read newspapers and instead relies on YouTube for news, she says. The Chronicle hosts visits for local teachers and students on a regular basis.

Beliefs 108

Beliefs Fairness Writing History 108

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. Teachers want programs that they can implement immediately: not just something they read from a book. — Ryan Graham, Chief Technology Officer, Texthelp.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 297

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Yet, these days the issue seems more complicated, as political debates frame equity policies as in conflict with ideals of fairness and tradition. Or read highlights from the conversation (which have been edited and condensed for clarity). It's part of that child's history.

Education 127

Education Culture History Achievement 127

Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

If it is a virtual environment, faculty must make it creative so students will want to read the posted material. She has a history of rapid key assessments of diverse situational challenges and team collaboration, developing action plans, and producing positive impacts for all stakeholders involved.

Academic Integrity 105

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments Writing 105

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

It only says something about whether students have yet attained the reading, writing, and math skills they will use to gain knowledge in college or career training; it makes no statement about what they are capable of learning.” The people who started this system were in their own minds idealists,” he told EdSurge.

Testing 160

Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 160

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2017

Fair, Honest Product Valuation When a developer has built a new edtech product with blood, sweat and tears, it’s easy for her to see its worth. For example, as a vocabulary and reading company, we envisioned our program complementing a core English curriculum. Instead, we were placed in math, science and history classrooms.

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Evaluation English History Failure 93