eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Lessons on these events and others are included in Common Sense Economics from Poptential , a comprehensive and free high school digital curriculum. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests. Click to tweet.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

It’s been more than 125 years since the first Labor Day was observed, and the labor movement can seem a little dry to today’s high school students,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

With inflation reaching a 40-year high and talk of a looming recession, high school students are coming of age during one of the most challenging economies in recent history. Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

The topic could be dry for high school students, so Poptential helps explain it using pop culture references, including video clips from the animated sitcom The Simpsons.” Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Essay topics, discussion questions, full texts of literary classics, editorially curated Topic Centers, interactive games and quizzes, and self-assessment questions allow students to easily delve deep into their subject matter and test themselves along the way.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

The most recent – and most notable – comes from what some may consider an unlikely source: a series of partnerships between Utah schools and ASU Prep Digital, an accredited online K-12 school based in neighboring Arizona. Utah Education Landscape. For Juan Diego’s part, there are differences, as well.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” There were worksheets, multiple choice tests, and lectures in front of the classroom. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire. That was a real turning point.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

We all have that one teacher who seems to take months to grade even a single test. It’s a student response system that allows teachers to make quizzes that students can take on their device. The average high school textbook costs $70 and weighs about a million pounds. Socrative helps counteract this slow grading syndrome.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded. Students used to learn typing in high school, as a skill. Some schools require assessments of student learning in technology. Some schools require assessments of student learning in technology.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The latest national data reports that while a growing number of students graduate high school, college enrollments are decreasing. High schools are attempting to fill that gap by offering financial literacy classes that teach how to balance finite income from a job against infinite needs and wants. I have a good job.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Dan Meyer is chief academic officer at Desmos, and was previously a high school math teacher. As a result, institutions and individuals used computers to create huge banks of prerecorded explanations, delivering them digitally to students based on the results of multiple-choice quizzes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The research that started in my class grew much larger and became an authentic and rigorous study that spanned multiple grade-levels, schools and years. The study included more than 1,500 students at the middle and high school levels. For too many students, that aha-moment happens while they’re taking the big test.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

An Interactive Program Rich in Educational Content Experience AI offers a series of six lessons and additional educational resources in French and English, which are tailored to high school teaching and enable students to explore the basics of AI, understand its practical applications and acquire essential AI and computational thinking skills.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Taylor Hill, a student at Wheatley High School, would experience the change firsthand. Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. Ultimately, Klussmann said, Miles’ model is designed to produce higher test scores.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Prester, a business teacher and instructional technology specialist at Mansfield High School just outside of Boston, Mass., Enter Econ Essentials from CME Group and Discovery Education , a free online curriculum for high school educators and students that helps make learning core economic principles more accessible.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Below is a machine-generated transcript of the interview: 00:00:20 Speaker 1 Because nobody goes to learn how to be a computer science teacher and then goes to to, to, to elementary schools. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. But we’re not testing the teachers.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Kim Lewis, a middle and high school Spanish teacher in a rural district in upstate New York, explained how she uses Microsoft Teams to facilitate student collaboration and offer opportunities to practice problem-solving skills in groups. “As It’s very informal,” Fine says of her efforts to measure student progress with Google Drive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One Shanghai school she knows asks teachers to give students their lessons and 48 hours to complete them. Issues With Feedback and Testing It’s much easier to hide in a digital world. But that’s not always the case in subjects such as math and science that require secure environments for test taking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, explores the historical significance of global trade in its World History curriculum, equipping high school educators with media-rich content to help students gain a deeper understanding of the importance of free trade. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I saw a brilliant high school student named Curtis help his father build a shed in the backyard and initiate a Black Lives Matter activism project. This spring, while educators were pivoting to new teaching frameworks from home, I witnessed students shifting into new roles too.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Formative: more informal check-ins—quizzes, questions from the front of the room, or even chats with students—that assess how students are absorbing material and allow teachers to adjust lessons on the fly. It is no longer just writing multiple choice test questions. It's super sophisticated. It is definitely not that!”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2016

The newly added Assessments tool gives educators full control to create, distribute, and assess custom quizzes, tests, and homework assignments directly within the platform. High school students taking VHS ’ U.S. History courses can now receive college credit at Quincy College. History courses.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Shortly after graduation, Sheliya received a full-time job offer based on her efforts in this service-learning project — not a bad outcome for a high school service-learning project. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

“What it seems like is disabilities services providers [are] having to think about new barriers placed in an online environment,” Lalor says, such as difficulty reading text on screens or heightened anxiety from being filmed during class discussions or while taking tests.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For students in school, ‘speed of thought’ refers to how fast they develop ideas that will be recorded. Students used to learn typing in high school, as a skill. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). Keyboarding Quizzes. 45 wpm is good. for example.

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JUNE 5, 2019

With a focus on high school students, it is also great for passionate middle schoolers and college students looking to fill holes in their learning. Or, s hare this site with high school college-bound students preparing for future classes or who need Independent Study for high school credit. .

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Now, she’s a full-time education implementation specialist for FIRST and still works closely with a number of robotics teams in her area, including some high school seniors who were on her original team nine years ago. When you’re in the classroom, there are reminders about homework, quizzes, test reviews, etc.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. For some educators, digital forms have been a productive way to achieve this.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — (June 3, 2022) — Millions of high school students are expected to hit the books in summer school to help close the pandemic education gap, get a head start on a jam-packed schedule, or to repeat a failed class. s Poptential family of free social studies courses.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

“Many data-driven tools provide formal assessments of students, but Engauge is different because it provides evidence of student engagement in the tools used for learning,” said Andy Wiggins, social studies teacher at North Central High School in Indianapolis, IN.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

Preparing for exams requires a systematic approach to ensure you cover all the necessary material and feel confident on test day. Whether it is for the SATs in high school, or for finals in college, when the time comes, you will feel a lot of pressure to do well.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture. Another student cried when they didn’t get stickers on their test, even though they tried their best.

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JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students could access chatbot quizzes ahead of exams to help assess their level of understanding. Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard,” says Deepak Cheenath, co-founder of Quizizz, a classroom tool that lets teachers create pop quizzes and games. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student.

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