Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Providing personalised feedback and revision materials for students. A Cautious Approach to Student Use While the guidance doesn’t prohibit students from using AI, it urges “great care.” ” Schools are reminded of their legal responsibilities to ensure student safety. .”

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Virtual classrooms are now a trusted and permanent part of the K-12 landscape, offering flexibility and customization to help students thrive. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. The good news?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

You need to deliver effective instruction to your students, meet the demands of your school and district, and manage your own personal responsibilities, all at the same time. You have good intentions about giving feedback that is timely and purposeful for your students or teachers. Peer feedback works using this method, too.

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Feedback Technology Quizzes Essay 199

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Check for understanding. Identify misconceptions or gaps.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe traditional assessments fail to fully measure student understanding. With the rise of digital tools, teachers now have innovative ways to assess learning that provide deeper insights and engage students more meaningfully.

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Evaluation Quizzes Critical Thinking Feedback 267

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Station Rotation Model is particularly popular because teachers do not need a device for every student to make it work. Instead, students rotate between offline and online stations. Begin your station with a challenge or problem and allow pairs of students to work together to solve it. 4 Real-Time Feedback.

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Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. It’s not realistic to expect that teachers will grade the majority of the work their students produce. For what purpose?

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Research shows that more than 65 percent of students feel they would have benefited from more career exploration in middle and high school. Through the mobile experience, students are rewarded for completing these tasks and earn points to redeem for gift cards to their favorite retail, restaurant, and/or entertainment brands.

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Mobile Devices Quizzes Feedback High School 294

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. Students may know how to use some technology, but not all. Most of the time, this is not true.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Understanding your goals helps in prioritizing features that are essential for achieving desired outcomes, such as improving student engagement or accommodating diverse learning needs. To help, Ive put together examples of must-haves, should-haves, and nice-to-haves, with the goal of increasing student performance outcomes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

To keep up with this breakneck pace of innovation in virtually every sphere, educators must employ the very tools that are enabling it, using AI to create classes that are not only up-to-date but are also engaging, intellectually stimulating, and accessible to their students.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 285

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Assessments are more than just measuring how well students are doing in particular subjects in school, and they can actually improve student learning. In fact, frequent assessments can have a positive impact on a student’s education from kindergarten through college. Quizzing in LMS’ to Improve Student Learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2019

My biggest goal as a teacher is to make every one of my students know how important they are and how invested I am in their learning and well-being. I want students to enjoy learning and to walk out of my classroom with a new level of confidence. Here are three ways I use technology to personalize learning for all of my students.

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Quizzes Learning Feedback Assignments 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

She says exploring information in a conversational setting helps students understand their material with added nuance and new perspective. She says exploring information in a conversational setting helps students understand their material with added nuance and new perspective. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

ExitTicket is a rapid-response tool that lets teachers instantly poll, survey, or test student knowledge via custom quizzes called tickets. Teachers can launch Projector Mode from their own devices to display students’ responses in real time. Click here to read the full app review. ExitTicket. What’s It Like? Price : Free.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). However, when combined with high student to teacher ratios, it is difficult, if not impossible, for teachers to provide individualized support for their students.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2021

Engagement–whether students are hybrid or in person–is a top priority for educators, particularly after the rollercoaster year COVID delivered to schools. and students new ways to seamlessly create learning activities each day. offer just-in-time feedback, and?identify Another thing COVID made clear? in real-time.

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Quizzes Hybrid Learning Learning Feedback 282

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. Museum of National History) for students and teachers to choose from. A student sends a Cast request to present.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

We’ve seen educators do incredible things with G Suite for Education tools: creatively teach classroom material, collaborate with students, and design innovative assignments to achieve meaningful outcomes. Classroom is a useful tool for teachers, and since it launched three years ago, students have submitted more than 1 billion assignments.

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Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 196

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

AI can bridge the gap between diverse educational environments, including students in remote areas or those with specific needs who may otherwise lack access to human educators, by providing resources that were traditionally available only to students in well-funded schools. However, AI instruction also has its limitations.

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Ethics Education Learning Quizzes 305

eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

Teachable Machine is free to use and super accessible, making it a great resource for helping students discover what a learning machine is and how they work. Schoolai.com: Schoolai.com offers AI-driven tools designed to enhance the learning and teaching experience by providing customized learning paths and real-time feedback for students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2016

note : Today’s students have too many tests to take—but today’s teachers still need insight into their classes’ knowledge and skills. Adding new tests every time students need to prove mastery rarely seems like the right answer. Dawn Nelson, school library media specialist.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Edtech has opened up new ways to assess both students and teachers, in a way that organically integrates into the existing classroom structure. An example of this is found with the Voki edtech software, which allows students to create unique presentations with a wide variety of personalized characters.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 210

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s easy to critique a learning experience in hindsight—to make judgements like “I wish there were longer breaks,” “I wanted better feedback” or “I needed more visuals.” But those reflections aren’t very useful unless we take that feedback and use it to make change. By lunchtime on the second day, my brain was going to explode.

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Feedback Teachers Quizzes Grades 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

High School students will soon move into college and career where digital tools are de rigeur. Here are twelve recommended by the Ask a Tech Teacher team: 12 Innovative Digital Tools to Engage High School Students In the ever-evolving landscape of education, keeping students engaged can be a challenge.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Upon the release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022, we noticed that some of our students had suddenly become “experts” at synthesizing research and organizing their term papers, often resulting in perfect scores on their written assignments. This technology can be reversed too, assisting English-speaking students in foreign language acquisition.

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Education English Students Languages 211

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. Students especially need that scaffolding support as they move through the writing process.” Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

As education continues to evolve, data-driven decision making is a powerful strategy to transform teaching and learning practices and unlock new opportunities for student success. Blackbullion , London, UK Blackbullion is a financial well-being platform and app equipping students with financial skills. Oblio, Inc.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 288

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Without them, most teachers would not have been able to connect to students. Forcing students to just check multiple-choice options is an open invitation to cheat. That’s been a problem particularly for low-income students or those in rural areas that lack network connectivity. How much are students learning on these platforms?

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Learning Mobile Devices Students Quizzes 216

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 331

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

SAN MATEO, Calif. — June 12, 2022 — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 13 million students, announced it has acquired Curiosity Media , the creator of innovative language learning platforms that empower people to more effectively communicate in Spanish and English. About IXL Learning.

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Languages Language English Learning 252

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom learning, active learning strategies for students promote student-centered learning environments that enhance academic outcomes and cultivate lifelong learning skills. What are the 6 learning strategies for students?

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Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 137

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Verizon is working to empower educators and students with cutting-edge tools essential for unlocking the full potential of education. We envision a world where every student, regardless of their background, has the ability to join a limitless world of exploration.

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Internet Critical Thinking Quizzes Teaching Methods 298

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

A teacher recently asked me whether students always need to attend every station in a rotation. ” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. The short answer is “no.” When Should Teachers Use This Strategy?

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

More recently, governments in Japan and South Korea have kept students home. They mainly serve expat or foreign students and typically follow American or Western curriculum and standards, offering AP classes and International Baccalaureate degrees. And from Singapore to Vietnam, classes are canceled. Well, sort of.

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