eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

An esteemed and diverse group of judges, including 3M scientists and leaders in education from across the country, evaluated entries based on creativity, scientific knowledge, and communication effectiveness. New Jersey] Raunak Singh, Memorial Middle School, Fair Lawn School District.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

In the meantime, science teachers like myself are largely left to modify and present the standards independently as schools cycle through textbooks and curriculums. One day, during class, I posed a question to my student on a topic everyone was familiar with: cell phones. Specifically, I asked, “Can cell phones cause cancer?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

A diverse group of judges will evaluate entries based on creativity, scientific knowledge, and effective communication skills. They are invited to submit their solution in the form of a one to two-minute video explaining the science behind it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

To be fair, kids who use technology regularly at home do have both a baseline set of skills and a fearless enthusiasm for anything with a screen and a power button. But what kids possess is bravado, not knowledge. Knowledge must be taught. Kids love tech. Did I miss any myths? Share them in comments!

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

An esteemed and diverse group of judges, including 3M scientists and leaders in education from across the country, evaluated entries based on creativity, scientific knowledge, and communication effectiveness. The competition event will take place from October 18-19, 2021, at the 3M Innovation Center in Minneapolis.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

There seems to be fairly wide agreement that schools that aren’t achieving minimum levels of proficiency on standardized tests of lower-level – or, for PARCC & SBAC fans, arguably mid-level – knowledge are ‘failing’ or should be ’turned around.’ ’ Serve your detention or lose your textbooks. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Bier: We're asking students to write these questions not because we're looking for free labor, but because we think it's actually going to be helpful for them as they develop their own knowledge. It's an adaptive course — think of it as an interactive high-tech textbook. They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

That actually there's a lot of pedagogical knowledge that has to go into how you teach someone something. Like textbooks—that's a classic example. So at that point, when you're using textbooks in that way, the pedagogical decision making is still being made by the institution or by the faculty member.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

As learning institutions bestowed with the societal charge of preparing informed citizens and knowledge workers, schools must help their students and graduates master the dominant information landscape of today and tomorrow, not just yesterday.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks rather than print is that users can write in them. This not only makes submitting work painless (and less likely to get lost) when submitted to a public forum, students benefit from each other’s knowledge. Learn from others and share your knowledge. Annotate a PDF.

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k12

MARCH 23, 2025

Positive representation and encouragement can help maintain their interest in STEM and build confidence in their knowledge and skills. Through hands-on learning, collaborative clubs, personalized tutoring, and exciting challenges, K12 helps girls build the knowledge and skills they need to succeed.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As part of that shift, schools could introduce students and teachers to the Code of Ethics in Fair Testing Practices in Education , which advises that those who use test scores to make decisions should “avoid using a single test score as the sole determinant of decisions about test takers.

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Lab to Class

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Education, especially formalized education in schools, has long held that in order for students to learn effectively, they must have solid study routines, consistent teachers, and unified textbooks. It also is beneficial for creating fairness and equality in the classroom. Humans like to know what to expect.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Knowing when our decision to use something falls under fair use and when it is a copyright violation can get tricky, but it doesn’t have to. Before we dive too deep, let’s get a basic understanding of copyright and fair use. What is Fair Use? Teaching is an activity that qualifies as fair use. What is Copyright?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Whether due to an absence of knowledge or a lack of systems designed to inform, too often when the term “racism” is mentioned in America the images of shackled blacks being bought, sold, mangled and killed are the first to enter the minds. Followed by: “What happened?” I was amazed by his responses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

As recently as 2015, it was discovered that a major geography textbook, published by McGraw-Hill Education and adopted by the Texas Board of Education, referred to slaves as "workers" in a chapter on global immigration. How would a textbook cover Trayvon Martin? We can’t rely on gatekeepers to tell the whole story.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Religion keeps coming up in this story, first as a means of teaching enslaved people to obey, then as part of the problem with literacy, when Black preachers were targeted for spreading knowledge to their flocks. Its fair to say it was the federal government that brought an end to racial segregation in our schools.

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Robert Kaplinsky

AUGUST 9, 2022

” The reasoning is that when there is a front of a classroom, that is where the knowledge comes from. The teacher is generally at the front of the classroom, so the message we’re conveying is that the teacher is where the knowledge comes from. Defronting the classroom removes that unspoken expectation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Again, that idea of thinking about, how do you make sure we're really tapping into the wisdom of the crowds, the knowledge of the crowds? Anyway, I was teaching it in this very dry way, out of this textbook, and looking at a class of 9th graders who could care less what I was saying. Come to us with your best ideas." I'll own that.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

I had an idea that we could start working with the educators and with the textbook publishers. Now, everybody was talking about knowledge-based jobs. But, the software company was not as into, what I would call, Maslow's hierarchy. In this space [SLEDs], you can't go after revenue. That was the other big thing that was happening then.

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