Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Yes, my eyes technically scanned the words, but I wasn’t thinking about what I was reading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Elephants aren’t anomalies.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Actively Learn ELA equips students to become better readers, writers, and thinkers by embedding rigorous instruction into short stories, current events, articles, close reading excerpts and even full-length novels. The content is vetted by subject matter experts to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. The Big History Project’s approach to the teaching of reading comprises four components.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But despite their best efforts, online learning failed to live up to in-person education, with students whose schools met mostly in person performing significantly better on math and reading tests compared to their peers who received instruction online. But it’s not the fault of teachers – they weren’t trained for remote instruction.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. Some, Anagnoson says, did “not read at a deep level for students,” and others “assumed a lot of prior knowledge.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2015

Many people in the United States, particularly students, parents and teachers, join forces on Read Across America Day, annually held on March 2. Here are some great reading websites for students K-5: Aesop Fables—no ads. Listen/read–Free non-fic audio books. Stories read by actors. Stories to read. Aesop’s Fables.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Whether delivered via visually engaging textbooks or powered by the most advanced digital technology on the award-winning Savvas Realize LMS, Savvas Learning Company’s rigorous, standards-aligned resources focus on putting the student at the center of learning. It is about that aha!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. The digital textbooks are available at a discounted price through. The proof is in the numbers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

Click here to read Part 1 on Gen Z and parents , and click here to read Part 2 on Gen Z and librarians. Check back every Monday in April to read the next installment!]. Textbooks are “boring” according to many students; I would rather give them a choice of articles that are fairly short, but concise.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Designed for all K-12 students and educators, the Center features multi-modal, student-facing digital content aligned to the five SEL competencies from Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and includes Virtual Field Trips, videos, podcasts, mindfulness exercises, songs, and reading passages. and organized by?Culture,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Triseum's ARTe: Macenas immerses students in art history. through a signup ID supplied by their course instructors, like buying an electronic textbook. Enter Textbook Publishers. Textbook publishers could be the next level of major companies investing in the production of video games in higher education. For example, W.W.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. For educators who will read this article, what traits might they take away from your thoughts on what constitutes “a strong instructor”?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In September, a teacher in the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District, in Southeast Texas, was fired when district leaders learned that an eighth grade class was reading a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank. A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

As far back as history reaches, they played a vital role in helping students. Students no longer have to carry heavy backpacks full of stacks of printed textbooks. Accessibility and Convenience for Students No matter where they are, young learners worldwide find the same textbooks with a few clicks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Read more insights from Teacher of the Year finalists below. I try to teach my students that science isn't just happening in a textbook, but that is happening all around us,” Rivera explains.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension. What does AR look like in the humanities?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

News literacy—the ability to determine what is credible and what is not, to identify different types of information, and to use the standards of authoritative, fact-based journalism as an aspirational measure in determining what to trust—is a fundamental life skill, as essential to success in the classroom and in life as reading or math.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. “If The equivalent for me is going to a class and not being able to study the textbook. Other facets are harder, and require a cultural shift of sorts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Lemma Shomali: Our research tells us that as K-12 education moves away from scripted textbooks, teachers must evaluate digital resources from many sources: the open web, content providers, etc. Maybe an auditory learner doesn't mind the long article but needs to hear it, not read it. Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

I found creative uses for it in my history teaching, even at that time. My favorites as a history teacher were #sschat #edtechchat and #edchat. Matt Miller, the Ditch That Textbook founder, was instrumental in creating various templates for the classroom. The assignment followed various readings about the two figures.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

Richard Barrera “Many districts, for the first time in the history of their summer programming, are focused on fun and engagement as a number one priority,” says Jessica Gunderson, a senior policy advisor with the Partnership for Children and Youth, based in California. We call it a summer of learning and joy. Joy is not a throw-away term.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Textbooks and College Sports? The show is hosted by David Allan, a marketing professor at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia who is also writing a textbook about NFTs. The next best application is textbooks,” he responded to my email query. It’s a chance to own a small piece of journalism history and support EdSurge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. It made no sense to continue reading textbooks and articles saying the Taíno were gone when that was plainly false. That should scare me, but it doesn’t.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So when she developed Read Ahead , a tool to transform any digital text into a guided reading activity in seconds, her thoughts went to patenting it. “I From filing a provisional application to securing approval, it took Russell five years to get Read Ahead patented. Edsurge: When did you first consider patenting Read Ahead?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2025

Concerned that Americans were reading less, the ALA and the American Book Publishers formed a nonprofit citizens organization called the National Book Committee in 1954. ” In 1957, the committee developed a plan for National Library Week based on the idea that once people were motivated to read, they would support and use libraries. .”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. Stop doing extra work. We are past that point.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” Educators have uploaded quests to teach history, art and even taxes and budgeting. Educators design lesson plans as quests, with a digital map that marks progress points throughout the lesson.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He says initial results show that students responded more positively to computer-generated instructors that read as female. Regarding gender, there is a long history of robots being programmed with female-sounding voices.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I appreciated not having to purchase textbooks in addition to paying tuition and fees. Additionally, if an OER appears on an organization’s website, it is important to research the procedures for getting material published on that website along with understanding the history and purpose of the host site. Review the material.

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