Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

If you want to effortlessly become an expert in a new language, you’re probably too late. And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. But technology-enabled tools that aim to deliver language instruction at scale are also building incentives into their systems to help learners make more progress.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects. However, the digital resources are not enough—they need to be applied within the context of effective, classroom-tested strategies.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A traditional science textbook doesn’t always provide educators the freedom to delve into topics that students bring up from their own lives or questions they have about the world around them. Our student population represents more than 30 languages, and many of them are new to learning English.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. It guides students from simple to complex skills, adapting to individual student needs and offering explicit instruction with real-time feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

NNHS is one of the most diverse high schools in Illinois, with students who come from almost every corner of the globe and speak more than 70 different languages. In previous years, I focused solely on topics out of a textbook. All students, regardless of background, can benefit from a high-quality financial education.

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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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Listening , San Francisco, CA Listening provides a mobile app designed for students and researchers to transform textbooks and research papers into audio, providing insights and note-taking ability on-the-go and helping to streamline the research process. Oblio, Inc. Quizard AI, Inc.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. Action plans link to specific IXL math skills and give teachers a simple way to differentiate instruction, fill knowledge gaps and facilitate meaningful progress.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What we built in was a kind of project-based learning where kids not only have book knowledge, but also learn about real-life activities relevant to that profession and also meet professionals who do such work. When I first started, on July 28, 2014, the superintendent before me had ordered close to a million dollars’ worth of textbooks.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL is used by nearly 40 percent of all K-12 students in Kentucky, accounting for more than 283,000 learners.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

With MATHbook , the consumable textbook, students benefit from working together with their peers, discussing mathematical concepts, and building deep understanding, productive habits of mind, and 21st-century skills. Carnegie Learning is a leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In language arts classes, students can write papers or create presentations on their laptops, uploading the file to the web to work on at home and at school. The world that they live in is technology based,” said Cindy Pusanik, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Robinson Middle. “We We need to give them the skills and knowledge.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For years educators have been trying to glean lessons about learners and the learning process from the data traces that students leave with every click in a digital textbook , learning management system or other online learning tool. Its an approach known as learning analytics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Biology for Texas has been specifically written for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Science (High School Biology). Our resources are unlike any you’ve seen before, and a departure from the traditional basal textbook paradigm. The TEKS form the basis of the structure of Biology for Texas.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. ” How Pennsylvania educators use IXL’s award-winning platform.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. Pushes like the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. AR lets students see things up close or gather background knowledge of topics; it promotes deeper learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. In addition, the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform is used in all CCISD classrooms. Connecting

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. A third loaded up a digital textbook filled with circuits, transistors, and other assorted electronics diagrams. A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Immediately everybody’s mind goes to uploading chapters of the textbook and worksheets to Google Classroom. The point is: Don’t just upload scanned textbooks and worksheets and think it’s going to be a good learning experience. You could even have other members of the class review the script for accuracy, as a test of their knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

There are many ways that this can be done, such as creating study groups on Facebook or Twitter, sharing relevant articles and books on these platforms, and posting online practice questions or interactive quizzes that students can complete to test their knowledge.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

In Jill Armstrong’s social studies classes, when students learn about other countries, they don’t just learn from textbooks and news articles, which she says can seem abstract and elusive to teenagers. I tell them, you know, the whole concept of why we learn about other countries is to understand and be knowledgeable.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. Instead, we talked about how those stories came to be and whose interests they served.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2019

It’s already challenging us, as educators, to revisit our role as sole providers of formal knowledge and professional L&D. Using AI, we can deliver textbooks, lesson summaries, and flashcards that are highly focused, relevant, and applicable. As an authoring tool, AI goes beyond textbooks and traditional studying guides.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Along with a rise in Holocaust denialism — fueled by misinformation, along with poor knowledge of the history — researchers have noted that disagreements over curriculum, book bans and politically contentious issues have ratcheted up the pressure on educators.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Faculty had to overcome obstacles to even get there, including the lack of an official textbook and initial skepticism from colleagues in the math department, says Blaire Van Valkenburgh, who at the time was an associate dean of the department and was leading the reform effort.

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