eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Available on Discovery Education’s Earth Day website, this collection of K-12 content is organized by grade band and has been curated by Discovery Education’s team of curriculum experts. Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is equipping each of its 30,000 middle school students with a laptop this year in the district’s latest move to make its classrooms more tech-savvy. The initiative caps two years of efforts to connect classrooms to the internet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2024

It’s simple enough for third grade with advanced tools that satisfy a fifth graders growing intellect. Allow several class periods to complete A Holiday Letter This holiday letter can be as simple (for 2nd graders) or sophisticated (middle school) as your students can handle.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They serve as trustworthy alternatives to internet searches, where the information surfaced can be unreliable, untrue, and unsafe. A middle school student interested in researching animals navigates to a subcategory about circus and performance animals and ends up writing a paper on the hidden cruelty behind wildlife selfies.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. the deployment of mobile devices.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2019

Demographics: Alpine School District in Utah serves over 82,000 students across 89 schools. Biggest challenge: Our student count in any given grade level (9-12) ranges from 450 students to almost 1,200. Our middle school locations are currently discussing and outlining ways to expand arena scheduling to junior high.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. 00:05:29 Speaker 1 Well, now the teacher can open up the students workbook, see what they did, and give them a grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2019

Learning has no temporal or geographic borders and is available wherever students and teachers find an Internet connection. This used to mean limiting access to the Internet, blocking websites, and layering rules upon rules hoping (vainly) to discourage students from using an infinite and fascinating resource. 1st Grade.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

We were able to accomplish this in a larger-than-life way by installing a system called L that uses projectors and educational games to create an amazing physical learning experience in our school gymnasiums. We installed L systems , featuring Epson laser projectors , in every elementary and middle school gymnasium. Be creative.

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AUGUST 25, 2022

My son and I started The Middle School Mind podcast last fall as a way to give him a platform to express his, sometimes random, 6th grade thoughts. Meet The Middle School Mind. We started The Middle School Mind because we also love listening to podcasts. We started our podcast using Anchor.fm

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Highlights Digital Citizenship Defined : Understanding rights and responsibilities as internet users is crucial. Grade-Specific Topics : Digital citizenship is taught progressively from kindergarten to middle school. This dual focus helps students develop a sense of accountability for their actions online.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

embed] EdSurge: Should schools be prioritizing home internet access for remote learning right now? Reshan Richards : I think if your school is asking about connectivity at home, we hope you’ve already addressed all other dimensions about what schools provide for students—whether it’s food, safety or supervision.

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Teaching Distance Learning Schools Internet 208

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). Internet use.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

As a Certified Partner of the nonprofit OpenSciEd since August 2021, Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The internet is awash in surveys touting the inseparable connection between kids and technology. I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is I think students are reading and writing more than ever. Not all the time.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Like good hygiene, good digital citizenship is a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice. For K–12 students, lessons on how to use the internet safely and be effective online citizens are likely part of receiving any new classroom device. Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Like good hygiene, good digital citizenship is a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice. For K–12 students, lessons on how to use the internet safely and be effective online citizens are likely part of receiving any new classroom device. Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

Dictionary.com announced today it has launched the Dictionary.com Learning At Home Center , offering free, educator-reviewed materials and resources for kids from pre-K through 12th grade and their parents. Written by the Dictionary.com editors with the help of educators from around the U.S., ”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Pre-COVID-19, our “default setting” schedule had students join us on campus two days a week; middle school students attending Mondays and Wednesdays and high schoolers on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch. She has a younger brother in second grade, and says “my mom is going crazy. Screenshot from WeChat about complaint over disturbances from online PE class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In 2014, we went from one-to-one devices in one grade level to nine grade levels—third through twelfth—in a single summer. In investigating the cause, we discovered that a middle school student who didn’t like history class had paid $30 to a company to attack the network every day before history.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

All year long, schools have been grappling with how to respond to student cellphone use, which, according to many educators, had become almost constant among kids in older grades and increasingly disruptive to instruction. What many schools have not tackled, over the same period, is the rise of smartwatches among younger kids.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Like Angie, Croft’s online game options also get stuck in the school’s filters.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The 15 articles and 53 lessons have been released in conjunction with ADHD awareness month and include parent and teacher strategies to support learners in school and at home. All middle schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have officially begun to incorporate digital citizenship education into the curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.” Sample Lesson Plans for Your School. 5th Grade Narrative Writing: How do germs help or harm us?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Teachers and principals also increasingly voice opposition to blocking social websites, noting that schools have an obligation to teach students how to use social media responsibly. Learning how to behave online responsibly and safely—a concept known as digital citizenship—requires access to social media tools in schools, they note.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses. Theyre not allowed in any K-12 classrooms.

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Attention Schools Learning Middle School 178

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

Let’s look at that term, “digital native” Techopedia defines it as: a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age. The New York Post reported in 2018 that as many as 5 million schoolage children have no Internet access.

Teaching 154

Teaching Internet Knowledge Testing 154

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Now the superintendent of Henry County (Virginia) Public Schools, Cotton is himself looking for new ways to leverage technology to teach his students. In that vein, he is also impressed with how Bieber used the Internet to find a following as a homemade YouTube sensation. “We But it really kicks in during middle school.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. When was the last time you wrote an essay? We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2017

Laura Gadza, an 8th grade ELA who’s been paperless for the last 12 years, also sees the benefit of balancing edtech with SEL. In fact for Gadza, technology plays a necessary role in her middle school students’ social-emotional development. This is the case for Devon Almeida, a fourth grade teacher from Massachusetts.

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Blended Learning Education Learning Skills 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more. class Internet start page. If you aren’t using blogs by Middle School, the only question is: Why not? Class Internet Start Page. backchannel devices.

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Quizzes Internet Lecturing Middle School 113

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2023

My parents didn’t have the tools necessary to help a half-Korean girl navigate school and life. Over the course of middle school and high school, I met a few other biracial kids like me. My peers didn’t know how to categorize me, and I didn’t know how to categorize myself.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Making Music in the Cloud In collaboration with Berklee College of Music, I organized a project so that my fourth-grade students could work remotely alongside collegiate and international musicians. Source: Soundtrap Fostering Equal Access, Equal Opportunities By 2025, the Internet of Things (IoT) is projected to have 75.44

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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