eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Through its award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia resources, and the largest professional learning network of its kind, Discovery Education is transforming teaching and learning, creating immersive STEM experiences, and improving academic achievement around the globe.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. “I spend less time waiting for students to copy notes and more time helping students work problems,” Sowinski said. The Pennsylvania Legislature is joining the U.S.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook. Should they disclose that to students?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

“I’m going to bring 20 years of experience in here from everything I’ve seen that you don’t see in the textbook,” he said. “I’m going to bring 20 years of experience in here from everything I’ve seen that you don’t see in the textbook,” he said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Now is the time to reinforce the fundamental scaffolding that determines whether a child has a fair shot at success later in life. States like my home state of North Carolina are addressing broadband access, because technology is now a basic need for students in the same way up-to-date textbooks once were.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Department of Justice opposing the proposed merger of two of the world’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, in a brief opposing the merger of two of the largest textbook publishers.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

We are trying to change the way visualization and simulation happens in schools— ranging from textbook images to lab experiments. In the case of companies like VERE360, we are trying to change the way visualization and simulation happens in schools— ranging from textbook images to lab experiments.

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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. Bankruptcy. Leadership changes. Yet despite it all, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a stalwart in the K-12 publishing industry, says it’s been in a “sea of calm” as of late.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

In the future, I see Career Academy as replacing the textbook, allowing staff and faculty to use Career Academy and its certificates in the same manner that they once used textbooks,” says Mark Rosenbaum, dean of the College of Business at Hawai’i Pacific University, a private university in Honolulu and K? “In

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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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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

I Feel Ashamed’ To enjoy full access to digital textbooks, video software and other online learning systems, college students ideally would have their own, modern computers, according to Francis. You do need a device that is fairly new—not more than five years old.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” In all fairness, it was pretty sweet. Chrome Music Lab is a visual way to plot musical notes and create songs, punctuated with simple percussion, said technology director Bill Selak. It’s also a great way to teach AB patterns.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Through its award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia resources, and the largest professional learning network of its kind, Discovery Education is transforming teaching and learning, creating immersive STEM experiences, and improving academic achievement around the globe.

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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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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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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

New Jersey] Raunak Singh, Memorial Middle School, Fair Lawn School District. America’s Top Young Scientists have gone on to give TED Talks, file patents, found nonprofits, make the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and exhibit at the White House Science Fair.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You might explore equity issues, like whether it’s fair that wealthy countries that created the problem by putting carbon in the atmosphere in the past are now asking less developed countries, which haven’t contributed as much, to stop what they’re doing. You don’t see as much of an emphasis on formulas in Singapore math textbooks.

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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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Textbooks are “boring” according to many students; I would rather give them a choice of articles that are fairly short and concise. I believe students have more buy-in to the lesson when they have choices about what they learn and how they provide evidence of their learning.

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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 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

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. Annotate a PDF. Empower yourself.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

America’s Top Young Scientists have gone on to give TED Talks, file- patents, found nonprofits, make the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and exhibit at the White House Science Fair.

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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 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. I had a lot of benefits in my life and I want to give back. What’s satisfying to me is making a difference in the world.

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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. Done right, technology turns kids from passive learners tied to textbooks and worksheets to active learners engaged with each other. Did I miss any myths?

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

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 ]. Bier: The Open Learning Initiative has a statistics course.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 7, 2017

’ Serve your detention or lose your textbooks. If they were, we would see more school environments that immersed students in deeper learning, student agency, authentic work, and rich technology infusion opportunities. Download this image ]. Related Posts. Which schools are the true ‘miracles?’ Nostalgic for factual recall.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Like textbooks—that's a classic example. And people are perfectly fine developing their courses, buying large textbooks, or asking your students to buy large textbooks, and then just selecting stuff out of that that they're going to use as the foundational material to teach from.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Sprinkle in a few other sites such as The Hill, Politico, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News, and CNN and we can see how real-time social media could be an incredibly powerful lens through which to view, discuss, and understand government in action, not just as abstract concepts from a dry textbook.

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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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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 96

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

It’s not fair to expect that technology will improve the core business of education.” You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?” People say, “How can you possibly defend that we should be looking at standardized test scores when technology doesn’t help those things?”

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