Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. Inquiry tries to shift that to questions students can think about, providing them greater agency with the questions that drive the learning.

Social Studies 182

Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory 182

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Magical World of Science I should point out that I’m not the only one asking these questions. In the meantime, science teachers like myself are largely left to modify and present the standards independently as schools cycle through textbooks and curriculums. Why should my students care about it?

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Science Math Students English 171

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2017

Once they select a subject, they’re given a fairly typical textbook-style lesson, with written explanations and vocabulary, worked example problems, and then a series of practice questions.

Math 115

Math Fairness Textbooks Feedback 115

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. Students use peer feedback to quickly revise their work and pose at least one question before I provide in-app feedback. Anonymous student.

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Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

Don’t feel like you have to know the answer to every question. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. For example, if you use Google images in the classroom, let students know this is legal because of the concept of ‘fair use’–and explain what that is.

Skills 167

Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 113

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator. One example in particular is getting students that are taking, say, an online chemistry course to create a multiple choice question for us. But you might be thinking, how's the quality of those?

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Our country has a lot of struggling students and they need a different tool than the textbook. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind. If you're a student’s who’s progressing quickly, we can ask more difficult questions. Make it more adaptive. That's the future.

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Testing History Curriculum Fairness 132

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 94

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 94

EdTech Magazine

MAY 7, 2018

His signature book, Ditch That Textbook , offers ways for teachers to use digital technologies to revolutionize the classroom with innovative teaching, mindsets and curriculum. EdTech talked with Miller about how teachers can move away from paper textbooks and deploy more digital technologies in the classroom. . That makes sense.

Textbooks 75

Textbooks Fairness Intelligence Discussions 75

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. Quickly the lesson becomes about learning slideshows rather than the Big Idea and Essential Question. That’s not the goal of technology. Did I miss any myths?

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Teaching Internet Knowledge Testing 154

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Thank you for asking that question because I think oftentimes when my work is presented in the press, sometimes it is argued that I'm anti-business—that I think the commercial sector shouldn't be in this space. That's not a question to me. Like textbooks—that's a classic example. Can you talk more about that?

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Without question, we have not improved productivity of teachers. It’s not fair to expect that technology will improve the core business of education.” For example, if you have thousands of questions in Khan Academy , but they’re the same questions we’ve always asked in Algebra class, there’s no change in the design of the work.

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Testing Questions Fairness Textbooks 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

There are many questions about these endorsements that still need to be answered. Breakout group questions. LC – I lead an annual STEM excellence fair and bring other teachers, community members in that way. Can we graduate preservice teachers that come out of the gate with interdisciplinary STEM competencies?

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Examples include textbooks, peer-reviewed studies, images, videos, and more. Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know. OER stands for open educational resources; these are open resources with Creative Commons Licenses applied to them.

Accessibility 90

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 90

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

Don’t feel like you have to know the answer to every question. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks rather than print is that users can write in them. There are lots of education video collections designed to answer the most common education questions. In fact, you can’t. There are too many.

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Skills Teachers Failure Learning 84

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Deasy: We had a whole issue just recently dedicated to the question, Can you have great public schools and school choice? Traditionally textbooks lasted a while. Our investors have been behind that fully, and The Line is not an insignificant effort for us, but it's one that does make an impact on the community.

Education 80

Education Fairness Textbooks Discussions 80

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Generally speaking, a standardized test is an assessment wherein the conditions and test (directions, prompts, questions, etc.) We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

Testing 106

Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Financial barriers are the biggest constraint, and this includes tuition, which the Pell Grant will remedy, but also, this includes things you may not think of like paper and pens and textbooks and other resources, which is another thing to note about institutions being aware of the population they're serving. What more are you talking about?

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Schools Students Communication Counselling 92

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.

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Study Lecturing Learning Activities 52

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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Fairness Teachers Textbooks Discussions 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Its fair to say it was the federal government that brought an end to racial segregation in our schools. I think its a question one needs to think about seriously before one runs down that road. Its all of this sort of race and anti-discrimination stuff that they want the federal government to get out of.

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Education Disabilities History Writing 116

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Textbooks sugar coat realities a bit. Poor schools are told not to wander too far from the standards, there’s little time for student questions and critical thinking. But for minority children in concentrated neighborhoods of poverty, it goes to new levels. . The media does this too. In reality the very opposite is true.

Education 91

Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Robert Kaplinsky

AUGUST 9, 2022

openmiddle + @pgliljedahl s Thinking Classroom = great student engagement during wonderful questioning. So, my question to you is how would would you place students in a classroom to show that they would be doing the thinking or NOT doing thinking? Whiteboards (VNPS) Visible Randomized Groups Open Middle Thinking Questions.

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Reading Math Questions Writing 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Literally asking that question sometimes is enough to get us moving. 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. Textbook costs have increased over 1,000 percent over the last 30 years. Of course it is. It's interesting.

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Textbooks Fairness Testing Motivation 136

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

The question is, how do people who break rules also succeed? I had an idea that we could start working with the educators and with the textbook publishers. All you have to do is work harder, and study and do all your homework." These entrepreneurs seemed like heroes to me. That, to me, is what makes an entrepreneur.

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Education Local Government Study Motivation 121

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Researchers were surprised to learn, Gillis says, that the most-used sources for historical information are not textbooks but online sites run by museums and the federal government, especially the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and National Archives. Textbooks clearly are diminishing in influence, the AHA report states.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 182