eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Many educators who use Vernier probeware in their classroom have noted a deeper engagement and understanding when students watch an event and collect data simultaneously when compared to only reading a table of measurements in a textbook.

Science 319

Science Mobile Devices Teaching STEM 319

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To many students, these subjects mean reading long-winded textbooks and memorizing incessant facts. Thanks to the internet, there are so many ways for students to experience the past. They don’t necessarily see the importance of studying something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Social Studies 279

Social Studies History Study Textbooks 279

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

I teach sixth-grade reading to four classes of 20 students, most of whom have no internet access at home. Students today are so accustomed to videos, animation, and gaming that we need to look beyond our traditional tools—textbooks and lectures—to the true promise of what technology can offer in the classroom.

Textbooks 241

Textbooks Lecturing English Internet 241

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. /

Textbooks 119

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 119

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. That is, until she ran the pilot again and received the same results. The proof is in the numbers. percent.

Textbooks 112

Textbooks Lecturing English Internet 112

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. In Oakland, 98 percent of all students now have a computer and internet service.

Learning 363

Learning History Internet Textbooks 363

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.

Reading 117

Reading Textbooks Coaching Critical Thinking 117

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

According to Stillman and his 17 year-old son and co-author Jonah, Millennials can still remember a time before the internet. Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ]. Digital is King.

Mobile Devices 266

Mobile Devices Schools Students Textbooks 266

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Teachers should include an AI use chart (like this one from Ditch That Textbook ) with their course descriptions and have clear-cut discussions with parents and students about when AI use is and is not acceptable. We can assess their understanding of what they read and their ability to write through shorter bursts of writing.

Writing 330

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 330

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

It’s late 2015, we’re still overblocking the Internet, and the blame is on us as administrators… I read a post recently that stressed yet again how access to the wide range of the Internet is an equity issue. There are numerous reasons why we overblock the Internet. Related Posts. Nullifying the Web [SLIDE].

Internet 89

Internet Mobile Devices Textbooks Social Studies 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

The next game changer, according to education experts, will be digital textbooks. Why spend a year studying information in a print textbook that doesn’t match the thinking or values of the school and its students? Print books can be read anywhere — in sun, shade, inside, or outside. Digital ebook files are fragile.

Textbooks 89

Textbooks Reading Internet Curriculum 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2022

Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared. Bookopolis –focused on student reading. Books that Grow –read a story at many different reading levels. Epic –a reading library for kids, 15,000 books; most digital devices. Reading Rainbow –library of books; free to try.

Textbooks 157

Textbooks Internet Reading Language 157

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The proliferation of educational apps and online resources has expanded learning beyond the confines of textbooks. The internet has become an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike, offering a vast repository of educational materials, research, and collaborative tools.

Learning Styles 289

Learning Styles Intelligence Blended Learning Gamification 289

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

I can’t fit all of this week’s news stories here, though, so feel free to visit eSchoolNews.com and read up on other news you may have missed. From the Internet of Things to increasing computer science education in schools, this week’s news is all about helping schools implement and sustain innovative practices and mindsets.

Textbooks 140

Textbooks Internet Schools Elementary School 140

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. Beanstack helps educators and librarians encourage reading by making it easy to create and promote reading challenges for their communities. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.

Mobile Devices 346

Mobile Devices Gamification Science STEM 346

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. And broadband Internet connections aren’t available everywhere, especially in rural parts of the U.S.

Distance Learning 212

Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

For example, instead of covering all of the Common Core reading standards for my fourth-grade class, we decided to focus on one standard: identifying key ideas and details in literature and informational text. Too often, educators feel rushed to get through the myriad of lessons in the textbook or curriculum guide.

Feedback 218

Feedback Schools Internet Testing 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

5G, short for fifth generation, refers to wireless networks that support internet speeds that will allow data to move faster, in larger amounts, for more simultaneous users than ever before. 5G is about so much more than just eliminating laggy internet connections in crowded places, Grootegoed explains.

Education 166

Education Textbooks Internet Social Studies 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A lot of teacher-authors read both my education blog (this one–Ask a Tech Teacher) and my writer’s blog (WordDreams). AI-generated fiction So far, AIs can’t write from experience or with human emotion so their content is limited to internet-available facts and an interpretation of emotions and experience.

Teachers 166

Teachers Plagiarism Internet Intelligence 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Further, we will examine how libraries and schooling have always been connected and how important they are in shaping people’s paths and changing lives. The Emergence of E-Books in College Education Traditional textbooks are the foundation of a student’s academic life but have limitations.

Textbooks 157

Textbooks Education Knowledge History 157

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Lessons are designed with an inquiry-based approach, where students and teachers explore science “mysteries” collaboratively through videos, reading and hands-on activities. Schacht credits the growing availability of broadband internet in schools for helping “get his product into the hands of teachers directly.”

Science 218

Science Education Social Studies Elementary School 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality. Penn State even set up a grant program for faculty who want to develop an open textbook of their own. So OER advocates are realizing they need to change their pitch.

Textbooks 151

Textbooks Internet Study Achievement 151

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

Gamification 360

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

It was through the online textbook, but it was like a quiz, essentially. For the discussion posts Brightspace tracked not only how many comments they wrote, but also how many they read—I really liked that. We are moving into this place and there's no Internet. She had a strong Internet connection and then she just took off.

Teachers 166

Teachers Motivation Internet Textbooks 166

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s pretty much the opposite of the way the internet and social media have traditionally treated information, which is to make it easy to make exact copies of something to spread to as many people as possible. “If Textbooks and College Sports? The next best application is textbooks,” he responded to my email query.

Textbooks 197

Textbooks Education Syllabus Writing 197

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Four school-based pieces you’ll need: a robust infrastructure–these additional digital devices require an extended internet interface as well as sufficient bandwidth to transport all that data. Digital textbooks. Traditional textbooks are heavy, clunky, expensive, and are always at school when you need them at home.

Textbooks 157

Textbooks Classroom Management Internet Discussions 157

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. .”

Reading 107

Reading Textbooks Internet Intelligence 107

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Endless Network , a worldwide organization dedicated to tackling equity gaps resulting from challenges like insufficient internet access, strategically allocates investments in global companies that align with their mission and actively work toward achieving it. Over the last 15 years, its commercial arm, Raspberry Pi Ltd.,

Education 187

Education Science Internet Accessibility 187

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Computers were still housed in labs or on carts, but one-to-one computing and internet accessibility were hot topics. I was just starting myON , where we all predicted that a digital reading environment was key in the coming years. The big players at the time were the large textbook publishers.

Education 141

Education Textbooks Blended Learning Failure 141

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. Internet Abridged is a summarization extension that sums up any website in a few paragraphs (perfect for long Wikipedia articles, Sneed said).

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

Virtual meetings 1 or 2 times per week can help students feel connected to their teachers and classmates, but it is helpful to make them optional, due to potential time differences or internet accessibility issues. Carefully choose digital curriculum … When students do not have printed textbooks at home, digital curriculum can fill the gap.

Assignments 190

Assignments Learning Schools Quizzes 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Khan Academy) also fall within the category of instructional technology, as do digital textbooks and “open educational resources,” materials that are available online for free or at a low cost. For low-income students and users (including institutions) located in rural areas, internet access is still not available everywhere.

Technology 153

Technology Education Syllabus Course Evaluations 153

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

These attributes make them ideal candidates to thrive in science, but the curriculum requires a level of math and reading that makes the science itself hard to grasp. In the meantime, science teachers like myself are largely left to modify and present the standards independently as schools cycle through textbooks and curriculums.

Science 166

Science Math Students English 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In our search to find textbook-type resources that had products that were enhanced by our student's access to the Internet, we were searching for an improved assessment and assignment experience for mathematics. We used the program as one of our digital reading centers. Describe how you used the product.

Math 135

Math Teachers Textbooks Assignments 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

As Twitter moved into its second decade, templates for fake Twitter accounts for teachers showed up on the internet. 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.

History 173

History Textbooks Assignments Study 173

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2023

Lesson plans and materials can be shared as PDFs with reasonable assurance they will be able to access and read it. Pros: Accessibility: Being an online PDF editor, FormatPDF.com allows users to access their documents from any device with an internet connection, eliminating the need for software installations.

Confidentiality 148

Confidentiality Education Internet Feedback 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 31, 2020

Here’s What Schools Can Do For the Millions of Students Without Internet Access –from EdSurge. 10 Tips to Support Kids with Slow Internet –these from Matt over at Ditch That Textbook. 10 Tips to Support Kids with Slow Internet –these from Matt over at Ditch That Textbook. Nicely organized.

Teaching 107

Teaching Distance Learning Textbooks Internet 107