Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

It doesn’t matter whether a student reads a story for English, a chapter in a textbook for science or math, or an online article for history; they need to be actively thinking about what they are reading. This strategy activates thinking throughout a reading task.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Jamie Ellman’s eleventh grade students haven’t read from a textbook all year. It’s because of the technology-focused model of Moe and Gene Johnson High School, where she teaches history to sophomores and juniors. It’s not because she only sees about a third of her students in person each day.

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History Textbooks High School High School 155

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

During the second semester of his first year as an undergraduate, Olivier Mercier was looking for the cheapest way to get the textbooks he needed for his classes. Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. Non-textbook publishers it works with include Atlantic Books and Greenleaf Book Group.

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Textbooks Study Reading History 135

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2022

VR allows educators to move past pages in a textbook to create totally immersive experiences that stimulate and inspire students. As new VR technologies emerge, educators at all levels are finding new applications to augment the classroom experience – and for good reason.

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Social Studies Education Textbooks History 339

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It gives teachers the ability to show their students aspects of history, travel, and STEM subjects in an immersive experience. We’ve been seeing more schools across the board adopting integrated learning solutions that combine print materials and textbooks with digital aids. Growth of integrated learning. Expansion of blended learning.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Education History 279

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. So many people are unable to conceptualize a full picture of Black history until adulthood.

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History Knowledge Textbooks Social Studies 160

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way. history, including Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and more.

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Distance Learning Social Studies History Textbooks 229

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 142

eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Actively Learn Social Studies drives deep engagement in history and civics with primary sources, trustworthy textbook articles, and the digital version of We The People. Simulations, videos, high-interest articles, and textbook sections cover all core topics in integrated science, chemistry, biology and physics.

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Active Learning Activities Social Studies Textbooks 246

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. The campus is home to several longtime advocates of open and free learning materials.

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Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 115

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

The Challenge is presented by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . About USC Shoah Foundation.

History 246

History Textbooks STEM Art 246

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2022

Within Sandbox AR , users can create virtual worlds and populate them with some of the hundreds of unique objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more. Discovery Education’s Sandbox AR app empowers students and teachers to create, share, and even inhabit virtual environments. Sandbox AR is available for download here.

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Art Textbooks History Achievement 286

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

history in a textbook or online classroom, but it’s entirely another to visit the Statue of Liberty or the Lincoln Memorial and walk in the footsteps of those who changed history. It’s one thing to learn about U.S.

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Learning History Internet Textbooks 363

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Videos that are more than flashy attempts to spice up a chapter from a textbook. An engaging look at contemporary art, as well as art history through a contemporary lens. The best YouTube videos for the classroom are the ones that teach or—better yet—show something you can’t otherwise do in your classroom. The Art Assignment.

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Art Assignments Textbooks Science 275

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. percent to 76.6

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Textbooks Lecturing English Internet 109

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Virtual reality (VR): Bring lessons to life through virtual reality, allowing students to explore immersive environments and enhancing understanding in subjects like history, science, and geography.

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Technology Teaching Gamification Textbooks 265

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

It can also act as a study companion, generating practice questions, summarizing key points from e-textbooks and webpages, and much more. Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) Using VR and AR in the classroom offers numerous educational benefits across various subjects such as math, science, and history. Plus, students LOVE AR/VR!

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STEM History Middle School Middle School 294

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

Math should be an exciting space to be in, one that’s connected to experiences outside of the textbook or classroom. Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports. Math is joyful! It should be joyful. I’m a first-generation Dominican American.

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Language Languages Math Culture 335

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Explore the ways that our present continues to be shaped by our collective past through a powerful glimpse at the Armenian Genocide, an important and often overlooked chapter of history. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12.

Education 278

Education STEM History Textbooks 278

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

To answer that question, faculty at The New School have developed a suite of interdisciplinary classes such as “Anthropology of Networks,” “Generative Media and Artificial Intelligence,” and “An Interactive History of Computers Doing Bad Things,” which covers viruses, botnets and ransomware. Anderson says. We want to break through that.”

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 211

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2015

The new Earth Science collection contains 15 web-mapping activities that correspond with and extend map-based concepts in leading middle school earth science textbooks. history later this year. The activities use a standard inquiry-based instructional model, require only 15 minutes for a teacher to deliver, and can run on any device.

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Science Activities Textbooks Middle School 213

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.

Social Studies 218

Social Studies Study History Evaluation 218

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments.

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Teachers Coaching Textbooks Participation 258

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In more traditional K-12 public schools on the other hand, there’s a long history of the way teachers teach and the way students learn—stretching back to the 19 th century—that can make innovation difficult. Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority.

Blended Learning 247

Blended Learning Learning History Textbooks 247

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

With the national emphasis on STEM, cross-curricular learning teaches students about history, science, technology, engineering, and math (as well as art and literature), all while inspiring students to explore these subjects and make connections on their own. Student choice is an important part of my teaching.

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Curriculum Fairness Textbooks Critical Thinking 188

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.

History 217

History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Americans during Black History Month and beyond, Discovery Education recently launched the African American Experience s channel. Culture, History, and Politics.?Students Kendi and additional resources offer educators insight into strategies for teaching African American history. and organized by?Culture, Students will be?inspired

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History Learning Textbooks Culture 216

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!

Textbooks 242

Textbooks Education Math Schools 242

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

With the national emphasis on STEM, cross-curricular learning teaches students about history, science, technology, engineering, and math (as well as art and literature), all while inspiring students to explore these subjects and make connections on their own. Student choice is an important part of my teaching.

Curriculum 189

Curriculum Fairness Textbooks Critical Thinking 189

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

In collaboration with the College Board, Learning List has developed a review methodology that assesses materials’ alignment to the Learning Objectives and Skills/Practices contained in the new AP course frameworks for math, science and history courses.

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Textbooks Learning History Knowledge 173

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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Textbooks Game-Based Learning Art History 164

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. And perform worse on tests. This health crisis is really a civics crisis in many ways.”

Science 206

Science Teachers History Learning 206

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., Both were focused on enhancing the learning and knowledge that their textbooks covered, and also on making their curriculums better and more engaging. was introduced to the flipped learning concept. “I

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Course Outline English Middle School Middle School 279

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others EdSurge: Tell us about the early days of VERE360. For topics such as history or SEL, a first-person perspective allows students to see life through the eyes of others and experience things they would otherwise never have known.

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Textbooks History Fairness Study 217

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2021

I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades? Serve your detention or lose your textbooks. As someone who grew up in the Washington, D.C. Related Posts.

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Social Studies Study Textbooks History 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Students greatly favored hybrid options, and they preferred digital course materials over print textbooks. Other industries have experienced similar histories as new technologies rolled in. A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises.

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Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218