eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Math Participation Feedback High School 257

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As teachers provide students with feedback online, I would encourage them to explore tools like Mote , which allow them to leave audio feedback. A student’s cultural background or prior knowledge may impact their level of understanding or their specific interpretation of a word or symbol. Language and Symbols.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve. When teachers include too many criteria in a rubric, they may unintentionally assess skills or knowledge they do not spend significant time helping students master.

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Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing. How can we effectively weave formative assessment into the design and facilitation of learning regardless of the teaching and learning landscape? #1

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The goal of a playlist is to move students from point A (where they currently are in relation to content knowledge, skills, or a multi-step project or process) to point B (firm learning goals). Teachers can use this time to facilitate conferences, provide feedback, or conduct side-by-side assessments. That requires data.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Knowledge 542

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

We asked educators to share their views about teaching and learning in 2025 (find industry predictions for 2025 here ). Traditional tests focused on factual recall may instead give way to assessments that better align with NGSS’s emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of knowledge in real-world contexts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

These sights and sounds meld with texts, guides, and knowledge about what species are likely in an area and when they migrate. For me, it took authentic practice and constant feedback from experienced birders. And its changed the way I look at my early days of teaching. Was that the same bird I just heard a half mile back?

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Classroom Management Coaching Feedback Skills 183

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Instead of thinking about UDL and blended learning as two separate disconnected approaches to teaching and learning, it is worth exploring the overlap between the two. I encourage teachers to design lessons that allow them to pull feedback into the classroom so that students received focused feedback while they are working.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning 545

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Real-time coaching also presents coaches with an opportunity to provide feedback on the lesson. Feedback is easier to give when coaches are using a blended learning rubric. Co-teaching and Model Lessons. It also sends a powerful message to students that everyone on campus is learning, experimenting, and improving.

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Blended Learning Coaching Learning Feedback 539

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

From choosing images to arranging resources in virtual and real spaces, these insights can help us teach students to compose, wielding all the multimodal resources to communicate meaningful messages. To help kids make the most of these tools, we need to teach the process explicitly.

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Communication Knowledge Writing Discussions 174

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

” I remember questioning how effective those sessions would be at improving teaching and learning. We teach beautifully diverse groups of students with various skill levels, needs, language proficiencies, and learning preferences. I don’t want AI to replace the human element of education; I want it to elevate it.

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Blended Learning Knowledge Feedback Universal Design 389

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This year marks a significant milestone in integrating advanced AI technologies into educational practices, heralding a new era of teaching and learning. This shift has the potential to make assessments more engaging and more reflective of real-world skills and knowledge application.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 479

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

The development of Discovery Educations newest content is based on feedback from the companys school-based partners and makes teaching and learning even more relevant, interesting, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products.

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Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 197

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students? This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

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Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 277

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

To facilitate effective teaching and learning, modern schools must equip every classroom with interactive touchscreens and utilize gamification techniques. So, by adding gamification elements during teaching sessions, schools can significantly increase their participation and engagement levels. Finally, gamification is more fun.

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Gamification Interactive Learning Disabilities Learning 328

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. When I taught ninth grade Global History to an integrated co-teaching, or ICT , class last year, I used explicit instruction in ways I had not done before. They needed modeling, practice, and feedback. newsletters.

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Students History Feedback Physical Education 318

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Targeted assistance and adaptive feedback AI tutoring systems do an excellent job of delivering customizable support and feedback that align with student patterns in need. AI tutoring systems give students immediate feedback and guidance, addressing these problem areas before they become more severe.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 311

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Developed in response to evolving education demands during an unprecedented year, WeVideo Classroom makes it easy for teachers to incorporate multimedia creation into more enriching daily lessons, further helping students to think critically, collaborate, and gain a deeper understanding of knowledge. WeVideo has done it again!

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Hybrid Learning Education Knowledge Assignments 351

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

This statement has guided the Feedback Loops work at Digital Promise over the last two years as we’ve explored ways different communities can collaborate to improve education. The feedback loop concept is a systems-thinking way of approaching collaboration between communities, focused on mutual benefit through capacity building.

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Teaching Technology Feedback Learning 166

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

In exploring the pros and cons of AI instruction versus human educator instruction, a hybrid model emerges that leverages the strengths of both to maximize learning and knowledge retention. They excel at motivating students, managing classroom dynamics, and offering personalized feedback based on nuanced observations.

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Ethics Education Learning Quizzes 317

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

This method, however, may inadvertently create myriad barriers for students with hearing impairments, memory challenges, attention deficit disorders, insufficient background knowledge, or who lack familiarity with subject-specific or academic vocabulary. This encourages brainstorming and prediction.

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Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 431

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Teachers may find the template below a useful resource as they plan their station rotation lessons, especially if they teach online or in a concurrent classroom where the teacher-led stations are likely happening via video conferencing. I know getting started can be the most challenging part! History: Station Rotation Ideas.

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History English Math Science 435

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

It enhances learning experiences with tailored learning paths and immediate feedback, improves accessibility and inclusivity through assistive and adaptive technologies and language translation, and boosts efficiency and administrative support by automating routine tasks and improving data management.

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Ethics Fairness Learning Intelligence 325

eSchool News

JULY 18, 2022

Being suddenly thrust into distance and hybrid learning situations for the next year and a half pushed me to find additional, more efficient ways to blend technology integration into my teaching. There are two separate categories of technology when referring to teaching math. After they have given input (i.e.

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Math Curriculum Hybrid Learning Feedback 269

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Is your teaching practice sustainable? Teachers enter this profession determined to do it all – design and facilitate lessons, communicate with parents, monitor and track student progress, provide timely feedback, and grade everything. Do you use technology to engage students in the active construction of knowledge? If so, how?

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Blended Learning Culture Coaching Discussions 364

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

These edtech tools were viewed as a breakthrough technology that offered classrooms real-time reporting and analytics to track and adjust teaching as students play. Since then, online learning continues to shatter the boundaries of traditional, monolithic approaches to K-12 teaching and learning.

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Education Testing Feedback English 303

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 196

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

We can see beyond the daily challenges associated with teaching and remember why we chose to pursue a career in education. Make a visual reminder of why you teach and post it somewhere in your classroom where you can see it each morning. 4 Teach Students to How to Think About Their Learning. What is our purpose? What drives us?

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Metacognitive Skills Schools Blended Learning Evaluation 366

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Shy students may be more willing to participate in a game-like setting where they can showcase their knowledge in a less intimidating way. These platforms provide a non-threatening environment for exploration and mastery, and students receive immediate feedback and support.

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Gamification Interactive Learning Participation Students 325

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my last blog post titled “ Part I: Maximize the Impact of Explicit Teaching with Blended Learning ,” I explored the benefits of shifting from explicit teaching as a whole class experience to a differentiated small group experience. The focus is showing students exactly what to do and how to do it.

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Blended Learning Teaching Metacognitive Skills Learning 195

eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The survey notes that an overwhelming 88 percent of parents believe that knowledge of AI will be crucial in their child’s future education and career. Additionally, 84 percent of parents believe it is important to prioritize teaching AI ethics and responsible use alongside technical skills. public middle and high school students.

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STEM Secondary Education Ethics Beliefs 296

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. The goal is for students to lead with empathy to identify and define a problem, then develop a realistic solution to that problem that can be tested and refined through feedback. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). link] Dorland, A. 2016, May 25).

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2024

It equips them with the knowledge to critically evaluate information, understand scientific concepts, and make informed decisions in a rapidly changing world. The CRAAP strategy teaches students to evaluate information sources based on five criteria: Currency , Relevance , Authority , Accuracy , and Purpose. Is It CRAAP?:

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Science STEM Evaluation Critical Thinking 312

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. Flexibility: Learning and teaching with technology provides flexibility since it can take place anywhere.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 317