Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Research indicates that students thrive in environments where teachers act as facilitators rather than mere dispensers of knowledge.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. However, it is evidence that you havent internalized that knowledge or those skills yet.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

My teachers are all tremendously helpful, kind, knowledgeable, and understanding. Next to my desk, I have a black multi-drawer organizer that holds my textbooks, notebooks, papers, and folders for school. My Teachers & Classmates How do your teachers support you in online school?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Other investors in the round include Chinese education firm TAL Education Group, Follett Knowledge Fund and Plum Alley Investments, along with LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner and senior vice president Mike Gamson, Deborah Quazzo (founder and managing partner of GSV Acceleration) and Sam Yagan (founder of OkCupid).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Some of the newer pieces of adaptive software such as Achieve3000 and TenMarks use algorithms to identify a student’s current baseline knowledge so that instruction is neither too hard nor too easy, providing students with a more personalized experience. Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts. More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform. Digital Learning and Tools News STEM Top News'

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. The textbook publisher had announced the sale back in February.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Following a comprehensive evaluation, the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee has unanimously approved the Elementary and Middle School editions of Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for statewide use as core instructional resources.

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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

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Of course, there are big differences between textbooks and fizzy drinks.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

It also reflects the prevalence of low-quality and uninspired textbook series that have dominated the market throughout the latter half of the 20 th century. The perception that good teachers reject textbooks and design their own curriculum has been a persistent belief of educators over the years. References. Heifetz, R.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. Employers seek candidates who not only have technical knowledge, but also have problem-solving skills, adaptability, and communication skills.

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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. Having used OpenSciEd for five years now, I’m confident that I’ll never go back to teaching with a traditional textbook.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2022

Integrating the 3D design process allows students to synthesize different pieces of knowledge and apply what has been taught to them by designing their own creations. In addition, students can bring objects out of textbooks and off computer screens to provide hands-on learning opportunities.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

In my quest to engage my students in social studies, I’ve found that, after a few rounds of trial and error, the social studies textbooks belong on the shelf. 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

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

JUNE 3, 2020

Long gone are the days when librarians were simply the “keeper of books,” and the administrators who have grown to realize this have found it much easier to accomplish their strategic vision by mobilizing this dedicated and knowledgeable part of their staff. Here’s how many are doing it.

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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. Water is a unique discipline, it’s not like math or history or communication studies were major publishers put out multitudes of textbooks on,” she says. Now it’s my job.” But those materials were not ideal.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Under these more rigorous standards, students are expected to read more complex texts and reach greater depths of knowledge than before. We traced this problem back to the fourth-grade math textbook, which notes that adding a zero to the end of a number increases the size of the number by a factor of ten.

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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

JULY 3, 2020

For each core content area, Actively Learn provides a full year of sequenced curricular units that leverage the breadth and depth of its catalog and allow for deeper knowledge in each subject. Simulations, videos, high-interest articles, and textbook sections cover all core topics in integrated science, chemistry, biology and physics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. Or is it by challenging them to actively engage in projects that attempt to solve real-world problems?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

During a session at FETC 2023 , Samuel explored how blockchain can be used in real world to solve problems like knowledge gaps, student motivation, attendance, teacher compensation. If you aren’t there, you can’t learn what you need to learn and build on previous knowledge. Each time a student shows up, they earn points.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2019

Even new teachers struggle because from the moment they graduate from college, their knowledge and skills begin to fall out of date. We have a duty to learn about the latest advances in our fields of study, so we can pass that knowledge on to our students and implement the most effective methods for teaching modern topics and concepts.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Long gone are the days when librarians were simply the “keeper of books,” and the administrators who have grown to realize this have found it much easier to accomplish their strategic vision by mobilizing this dedicated and knowledgeable part of their staff. Here’s how many are doing it.

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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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While classrooms focus on theoretical knowledge, they may fail to prepare students for the real-life challenges they will inevitably face. Yet, a vital component of education remains overlooked. Education often lags behind in today’s rapidly evolving world, where technological advancements and shifting job markets are the norm.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Students were struck by their newfound ability to retain knowledge through listening to music rather than reading from a traditional textbook. Most importantly, this resource is customizable, allowing me to use it as a supplement to lesson plans, as a homework assignment, and as a studying tool.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2022

Along with that, the curriculum supplement that came with our new textbooks was starting to replace some of the traditional paper-and-pencil work that we had been doing. chosen an answer) instant feedback serves to reinforce knowledge by correcting mistakes, affirming competence or debunking misconceptions on the topic.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

In previous years, I focused solely on topics out of a textbook. Many financial curricula focus exclusively on the model of teachers providing content knowledge rather than allowing students to acquire and construct their own way of working through complex, everyday situations. 3 elements to a high-quality financial education program.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Similarly, widespread use of the calculator didn’t erase the need for mental math; instead, knowledge of how to use the calculator to one’s advantage became just as important as the math itself (Ditch That Textbook, 2023).

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This innovative application allows learners to display their knowledge of history, civics, and social studies, while offering educators and parents a new way to improve student engagement, increase lesson retention, and introduce an exciting alternative to textbooks and Zoom lectures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The district turned to IXL because of its ability to align perfectly to Austin ISD’s textbooks and curriculum, plus IXL’s broad range of skills that individualize instruction and empower every student. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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