Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. For students with dyslexia, the OpenDyslexic extension converts web page text into a special font designed to make reading simpler, said Monica M.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. Our core curriculum for reading and literature, and our core curriculum for math. And in reading, we were able to win 56 percent share of the Texas [English Language Arts] adoption.

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Textbooks Fairness Curriculum Questions 88

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2017

Click here to read the full app review. 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. What’s It Like? .

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Math Fairness Textbooks Feedback 115

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

These attributes make them ideal candidates to thrive in science, but the curriculum requires a level of math and reading that makes the science itself hard to grasp. In the meantime, science teachers like myself are largely left to modify and present the standards independently as schools cycle through textbooks and curriculums.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. They’re in a much more learn-by-doing mode than you will typically find in textbooks or the latest generation of interactive textbooks that are out there,” he says.

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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?

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Fairness Textbooks Math Reading 154

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

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Recently I had my students reading about Ancient Rome. As they were reading online, they found information relating to the Romans’ building techniques. Textbooks are “boring” according to many students; I would rather give them a choice of articles that are fairly short and concise.

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Social Studies Teachers STEM Math 126

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. High-quality instructional materials (HQIMs) are educational resources designed to effectively support student learning. I'm thinking, Where's the life?

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Social Studies Study Learning Laboratory 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. Read this left to right, starting at the file’s root location and then drilling down into the file folders. Review problem-solving strategies that students can rely on (like ‘How did you solve this in the past’). Annotate a PDF.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Over the past three years, with experimentation and many conversations, my students and I have worked together to develop a system of learning that values transparency, fairness, collaboration and feedback—and we've got the data to support that it’s improving student engagement. Anonymous student.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

At first, the university provided iPad Minis to incoming undergraduates and worked to build a library of custom electronic textbooks written by faculty members. Since introducing the iPad initiative, Lynn has adopted a comprehensive system for ongoing e-textbook development. They help you explore the topic more deeply,” she says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

He’s read about, pondered and strived to emulate remarkable Americans from Dwight D. So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. Twitter @rhcoll.

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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.

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Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 94

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. It's an adaptive course — think of it as an interactive high-tech textbook. And so we've got thousands of students at a university in Georgia who are using this stats course instead of a textbook. They're not fair [ because of false positives ].

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Teaching Education 124

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.

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Textbooks Fairness Intelligence Discussions 75

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. If a video has transcripts or offers closed captioning, I will read the content instead of watching. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 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. If a video has transcripts or offers closed captioning, I will read the content instead of watching. Before discussing this in earnest, a few terms are important to know.

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Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 90

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

SV – I no longer think of our space as a classroom – instead, we’re an innovative learning center – no textbooks, we’re a community that solves problems using every resource available to us (including others elsewhere). LC – I lead an annual STEM excellence fair and bring other teachers, community members in that way.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s not fair to expect that technology will improve the core business of education.” I don’t think the industry has read the research, or realizes how sophisticated and complicated adding technology is. You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?”

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Testing Questions Fairness Textbooks 98

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

As Jen Serravallo and Kelly Cartwright explored in their recent conversation on reading instruction, large-scale tests have shaped schools in big and small ways. As we all work to negotiate tensions related to how students are taught to read, some advocates are using large-scale testing scores to advance their arguments.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Language Languages 106

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. Read this left to right, starting at the file’s root location and then drilling down into the file folders. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Annotate a PDF. Empower yourself.

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Skills Teachers Failure Learning 84

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. All too often, students only read about or listen to topics. It also is beneficial for creating fairness and equality in the classroom.

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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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Fairness Teachers Textbooks Discussions 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Once students chose a subject, they used standards-based academic skills like independent research, critical thinking and non-fiction reading. How would a textbook cover Trayvon Martin? So, what did this contest have to do with democratization? At its surface, the contest was aimed at fairly traditional learning outcomes.

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Education Textbooks History Students 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied the right of literacy. Its fair to say it was the federal government that brought an end to racial segregation in our schools. And thats just not true.

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Robert Kaplinsky

AUGUST 9, 2022

I have been a math educator for about twenty years and Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl has more potential to improve the way we teach mathematics than any other book I have ever read. This book is an absolute game changer for all math educators and everyone needs to read it. This was a shocking result.

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Reading Math Questions Writing 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Textbooks sugar coat realities a bit. Teachers in these schools are usually told they have to teach reading from standardized materials. I hate the emphasis that many urban teachers have to place on decoding, not on the content of what they’re reading (e.g., The media does this too. In reality the very opposite is true.

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Education Exams Testing Fairness 91

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

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. This deserves more than reading a couple paragraphs out of a boring text.". Textbook costs have increased over 1,000 percent over the last 30 years. I don't think they have.

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Textbooks Fairness Testing Motivation 136

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

Listen to the podcast or read highlights from the conversation below (which have been edited and condensed for clarity). I had an idea that we could start working with the educators and with the textbook publishers. But, the software company was not as into, what I would call, Maslow's hierarchy.

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Education Local Government Study Motivation 121