eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Participating schools will receive Achieve3000’s 24/7 differentiated, blended instruction for students, teaching resources and blended professional development for educators, real-time data dashboard for administrators, and robust home support for parents and guardians. “For fourth-grade science and social studies. Lewis, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Because AI machine learning breaks down student learning patterns and habits, the tutoring systems fire off explanations, examples, and practice targeting a student’s most significant areas of need when the software recognizes the student’s knowledge gap or struggles with mastery.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a majority of schools participating in distance learning this year, Schell Games announced its virtual reality education tool HistoryMaker VR is now available for free on Steam for all to use. HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Participating in a simulation of the Constitutional Convention offered them a structured experience to practice the skills necessary for civic discourse—listening, discussing and compromising. Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In the think stage, participants move from observation to interpretation. ” The me phase asks participants to reflect on their personal connection to what they’ve observed and thought. Finally, the we stage encourages participants to think about their observations, thoughts, and feelings in a broader social context.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2024

In partnership with nonprofit Games for Change, participating schools will receive free coaching guidance from esports professionals to help prepare teams across areas ranging from technical skills to health and wellness for gamers. All 30 activities across math, science and social studies subject areas are now available via app and web.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

We have learned that helping students make connections to the broader world around them is a powerful way to bring the core curriculum to life and get kids actively participating in the learning process,” says Flocabulary CEO Alex Rappaport. The Week in Rap Junior is a spin-off of The Week in Rap, Flocabulary’s program for grades 5-12.

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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. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Students of color have historically been underrepresented in AP classes, although participation is on the rise. The five school districts in the study used Knowledge in Action (KIA), a Project Based Learning approach to Advanced Placement designed by University of Washington professors in collaboration with classroom teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. This past June, I received an email inviting me to participate in a webinar on Gratitude-Based Learning (GBL).

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The pandemic has created urgency to move beyond the status quo, and community-generated portraits of a graduate have swept the nation, highlighting the knowledge and skills many Americans want their young people to possess upon graduation. Advanced technology can now support more ambitious modes of teaching, learning, and assessment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Brainly’s users also seek help in science (18.84%), social studies (17.2%), and English (16.3%). Ginny, Brainly’s AI guide, lets students enhance their learning experience using its curated Knowledge Base of over 250 million answers to ensure they receive reliable and precise academic support.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

By the conclusion of the unit, students will participate in a debate, utilizing their research skills to argue for or against deforestation, exploring its implications for resources and products in relation to their daily lives. Similarly, concepts from physics can be applied to understand advancements in medical studies.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CLEPs assess college-level knowledge and passing scores on the exams are accepted as credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities. It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Learning begins from a position of strength by capitalizing on existing knowledge. Moving the students to the center of their learning, instead of the teacher, increased participation, engagement, completion of assignments and built a dynamic, inquiry-based classroom culture.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. Social Studies?Techbook.?Featuring Among the skills the district has identified as essential to preparing students for future success is civic literacy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sometimes these conversations are with administrators concerned about the increasing numbers of students on the schools D-F list or with teachers disconsolate about students who won’t turn on their cameras, turn in work or participate in discussions and whose attendance (virtual or in-person) is sporadic at best.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Civilization by Sid Meier—More than 35 million units sold worldwide; kids apply social studies lessons. Last year, I conducted a major academic study with Vanderbilt University researchers to test the effectiveness of our approach compared to existing curricular tools. This is how knowledge progresses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’ve been tasked (or voluntold) to run this activity, here are six activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Expect them to read closely, but work quickly, and make decisions based on their knowledge of reliable websites.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Collective Participation. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Armed with full knowledge of the issue, they dove into the research, recorded public service announcements and canvassed their community for advocates. Despite widespread publicity, this student could not find one wildfire victim who had successfully participated in the program.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Ensuring that every teacher has the knowledge and resources to provide a quality computing education is key. Social studies teachers considered how to use the subway map exercise as a starting point for a unit on unequal access to transportation. Making computer science a part of all teachers’ repertoires can change the picture.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. How might we tap into our students’ and communities’ wealth of knowledge, creativity and ingenuity, to problem-solve our most pressing issues? KNOWLEDGE (and LOVE) of SELF. What would this look like? How would we go about creating this?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. The goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

After a few of the district’s schools participated in a pilot program with the digital reading platform Actively Learn, Stanley got a look at teacher surveys and other program details. “I As a teacher, I can embed videos or add pictures of the Statue of Liberty or things about the Declaration of Independence to build background 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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

He compared knowledge to an adventurous exploration, best enjoyed with an open and curious mind. My Teaching Journey: Cultivating a Growth Mindset Through Ungrading For the past 11 years, I have been a professor of social studies education, working with both pre-service and in-service teachers. If so, please list them here.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 90

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

According to national social studies teacher education guidelines , infusing technology into instruction should: Extend learning beyond what could be done without technology. Include opportunities for students to study relationships among science, technology, and society. Introduce technology in context.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Write an Ebook. Resources available include help files, the digital tool’s website, how-to videos, and knowledgeable students and adults. Kids are no different. Educational Links. Khan Academy.

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Activities Schools Writing Quizzes 124

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

The flexibility requires Vermont teachers and administrators to have a deep knowledge of school-based course offerings, virtual learning opportunities, community work-based experiences and dual enrollment options. Seventh grade social studies teacher Amy Moriarty is one of those cheerleaders.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. And the USHMM’s Bringing the Lessons Home program has been found to contribute to the moral development of teens and their ability to see themselves as active, responsible participants in the world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2014, students who participated in the computerized component of the program had 2 percentage point higher pass rates in math, English and reading than students who did not. The pass rates in social studies and science were each 9 percentage points higher. He says test data back that up. The school is drawing attention.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Children must learn how to construct learning communities in which participants take each other’s ideas seriously, grow knowledge, and solve problems together so they are not dependent on the teacher to arrange such communities for them. Thinking together demands collective participation toward a collaborative end.

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Languages Language Teachers Discussions 111

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

A former social studies teacher at the city’s public boarding high school, Brady-Howard now serves as chair of Indigenous Studies at Outer Coast, where students study Alaska Native literature, beading and the Tlingit language. It’s more personal than merely, like, you’re coming to consume this knowledge and then leave.

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Education Study History Language 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 7, 2017

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. Khan Academy is an online program designed to teach math skills starting from where student knowledge is.

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