Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students. They believed that students’ motivation should come from within. But we can be thoughtful about the tools we use to motivate students and how we support them in navigating their emotions.

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Motivation Students Middle School Middle School 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2019

Rather than the usual murmurs and griping about fairness we often hear among middle-school adolescents, an interesting thing happened. When I learned about this, I was motivated to ask why , and to revisit our dress code. It was only a matter of time before this moved beyond the “it’s not fair” argument to one of substance and heart.

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Fairness Motivation Middle School Middle School 273

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When there are only so many hours in the day, it becomes nearly impossible to find time for computer science—despite its potential to inspire, motivate, and meaningfully engage students in really cool things. Computer science could become another spoke in that rotation fairly easily, and many schools are already doing this.

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Science Interdisciplinary Teachers Fairness 300

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? For that reason, summative assessments report data too late because the ultimate goal of assessment is to evaluate the progress achieved toward a learning goal. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 122

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

“When your entire job is trying to motivate people to use technology to transform teaching and learning, there’s always resistance,” Massinger says. “All the systems and tools were there. ” But there’s little room for reluctance in a global pandemic. “Right now, there’s no resistance.

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Fairness Motivation Online Learning Achievement 269

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Celebrate achievements: Reflecting on the successes of the school year is crucial for boosting morale and motivation among students and staff. Engage students in meaningful activities : Keep students engaged and motivated until the last day of school by planning meaningful end-of-year projects or events.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 303

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? For that reason, summative assessments report data too late because the ultimate goal of assessment is to evaluate the progress achieved toward a learning goal. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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Fairness Instructors Feedback Evaluation 111

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2025

Key points: Caring connections can support and uplift students 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation 5 restorative practices that help teachers create connections For more on teacher-student relationships, visit eSNs SEL & Well-Being hub Middle school marks the transition from late childhood to early adolescence.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Students 213

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Common Sense Media recognized Ello as a company that displayed Responsible AI practices, especially its machine learning fairness that contributed to the app’s high rating.

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Coaching Reading Ethics Fairness 264

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Whether it’s through mental coaching, leaning on your team, or reframing the situation as an opportunity to rise to the occasion, pressure becomes a resource for strength and motivation. By actively supporting female colleagues, male leaders not only promote fairness but also drive better outcomes for their organizations.

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Education Coaching Failure Fairness 306

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Most students may know about the volleyball team getting a big win the previous night, but it’s an equally big deal when those students win a science fair, or a teacher is honored by their peers. Learn more about digital signage’s ever-growing presence — and need — in the classroom in this free white paper.

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Teachers Fairness High School High School 306

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.

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Fairness Learning Styles Physical Education History 189

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2017

Surveyed educators overwhelmingly cited motivation, creativity and use of technology with STEAM subjects as reasons their schools use 3D printers in the classroom. Most institutions who own 3D printers own between 2 and 5 (38 percent), with 28 percent of institutions owning between 6 and 20.

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Accessibility Fairness Schools Motivation 152

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

When he first signed up for CS50, it is fair to say he was not in the habit of choosing the most demanding courses on campus. Making the learning a shared, social experience not only motivates students to do their best work; it also helps them learn from each other. My son, Dan, took the course.

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Teaching Education Learning Fairness 257

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

For the reasons of improving student education and funding we are motivated to be sharing the opportunity with Skyward districts across the country.”. Since then, over 1,000 school districts (including two statewide implementations) have adopted the software. The impact is amazing, transformative, and very real.

Fairness 258

Fairness English Motivation Evaluation 258

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

A recent survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found that less than half of Gen Z students enrolled in middle and high school felt motivated to go to school. Video game-based assessments, for example, are particularly attractive as a means to cultivate skills that are unique to the human brain and can help increase engagement.

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Education Testing Feedback English 303

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

College career fairs look like an awkward high school dance: Students circle around company booths, unsure whether to stop and drop off a resume. One company is making a business out of helping student associations and companies connect beyond the walls of tri-folds and stacks of resumes at career fairs.

Fairness 159

Fairness Science Study Motivation 159

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

In other words: “Most of my classes may be boring but I get to hang out with my friends, be in a club, participate in music and art, play a sport, see a couple of teachers that I like…” One of the biggest challenges of ‘remote learning’ over the past few months has been that most of the motivators been pared away.

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Fairness Motivation Learning Participation 141

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

He notes that the “project” in project-based learning isn’t just a robot or computer program that students show off at the science fair; rather, projects are analogous to “units of the curriculum that teach both content and skills.”. This requires significant teacher-student interaction at a group level. by Doug Bonderud.

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Skills Fairness Learning Students 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 211

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. I was trying to think of a way to both motivate students to complete projects and, at the same time, find a use for their projects once they were finished. Today, we use FH Gizmos to expose Fair Haven students to entrepreneurship.

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Fairness Teaching Middle School Middle School 165

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, E-Line Media, and founding sponsor the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) aim to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth by transforming their natural passions for playing video games into designing and creating their own.

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STEM Fairness Instructors Participation 159

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. This ownership is important as it fosters motivation, leading to greater engagement and investment in their own education.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

To develop innovative solutions to accessibility challenges, we need to be motivated and energized to problem-solve. Accounting for the widest range of learners with different abilities, backgrounds and motivations is the only way to provide all individuals with fair and equal opportunities to learn. We can innovate.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Based on our eye-movement research, along with supportive third-party research with other eye-movement recording devices, we have developed an online reading assessment that measures a student's comprehension-based silent reading rate along with motivation and vocabulary ability. I would say the biggest problem is the motivation to read.

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Reading Learning Disabilities Disabilities Motivation 167

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. This increased motivation.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2021

Tuition Strikes Are Sticking Around Anna Attie graduated the same semester she founded UChicago for Fair Tuition in spring 2020, when about 200 students held a tuition strike. Inspired by UChicago for Fair Tuition, Vassar College students are planning a tuition strike for the fall.

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Fairness Students Motivation Education 143

Catlin Tucker

MAY 6, 2025

Its about being fair and balanced. What motivated your team to bring in UDL and tech-enhanced models? That helps me stay balanced and motivated. Youre putting yourselves in the students shoes and asking: What will help them build understanding? Catlin: Youre also passionate about play-based learning. Ruba: Play is powerful.

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Blended Learning Coaching Students Universal Design 195

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2022

Yet as Facebook comes of age, it’s fair to reflect on the company’s motives, ethics, and actions. Marketers felt pressure to move at a previously unheard-of pace to keep up with platform and algorithm changes and didn’t necessarily feel able to pause and consider the consequences.

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Ethics Students Fairness Critical Thinking 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

fair use/public domain. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom.

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Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Gregor, a course assistant at the Kennedy School, tells EdSurge that manually recording each interaction with Teachly wasn’t a burden, and that it motivated different students to participate more throughout the course. It was a total shock to me—I thought I was calling on them fairly,” says Levy, 48. “It It was a big, big moment for me.”

Lecturing 160

Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 160

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Abigail Joseph: When I was at my previous school, every year the seventh- and eighth-grade students studied either the Silk Road or the World's Fair. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites. What always struck me was how addicted my kids were to the screen.

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Teaching Learning Fairness Middle School 164

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early studies, such as ones from international researcher Richard Van Hooijdonk , show that virtual and augmented reality tools can increase student engagement and motivation while increasing knowledge construction. Izzy Ngo and VERE360 are positioning themselves to be the go-to virtual reality resource for education.

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Textbooks History Fairness Study 217

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

The free app is an incredible new resource for your classroom as your students can make and create, while being motivated to get up and move to expand their inventory. In my pursuit to “level up,” I was motivated to walk miles to reach the latest mob , or creature.

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Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 184

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. A note: Any time students use the internet, start with a discussion on how to use it safely. Encourage this rather than entering an unknown server-world. Who are the characters in your made-up world?

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199