eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. The question is, how do you ensure students are graduating with these skills in a way that sets them up for future college and career success?

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” where there are jobs that haven’t been created yet,” said Nancy Ruzycki, an instructional associate professor and director of Undergraduate Laboratories at the University of Florida. “So, So, what skills do they need to learn, and how do we help them prepare?

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

With these solutions, teachers can help students continue to form a deep understanding of key scientific concepts while outside the classroom and laboratory.”. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2020

.” We discuss the importance of viewing our classrooms as laboratories, designing lessons that help us maximize our minutes with students, and escaping the traditional role as the disseminator of information at the front of the classroom. I will post a question a week to encourage an ongoing discussion about issues related to balance.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

As a definition published by Boston University explains, it is an example of “learning by doing,” and some of the related activities can include field trips, laboratory experiments, and studio performances.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Participants will explore the impacts of renewable energy education, identify significant gaps and research questions, and establish long-term working groups to address key issues identified during the summit. This summit was made possible through generous contributions from National Renewable Energy Laboratory and EDP Renewables.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. These are the kinds of questions my colleagues want to explore with me. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen nearly as much investment or innovation on behalf of our educators.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In contrast, AI centers, like the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, have largely focused on high-end, specialized training for graduate students in complex mathematical and computer engineering fields. The role of these institutions has been to broadly train undergraduates for living in a democratic society.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Students also benefit from access to resources such as libraries, laboratories, and extracurricular activities, which enrich the learning experience and cater to diverse interests and learning styles.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Each video poses questions about the phenomenon upfront to help students explore the topic, and then ends with information to help students take what they’ve learned and apply it in the lab. For teachers, new multiple choice and drop-down question options have been added to Science2Go to complement existing open-response questions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. He says his students use ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s paid version of ChatGPT, to brainstorm research questions, to help digest scientific articles and to simulate datasets.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

Our lives in the natural world are driven by a series of existential questions, as well as supporting questions (or just-in-time questions), that help us navigate each moment. Inquiry tries to shift that to questions students can think about, providing them greater agency with the questions that drive the learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

More than half said they’d never heard of three of the six IES sources, which include the Education Resources Information Center, National Center for Education Research, National Center for Education Statistics, National Center for Special Education Research, What Works Clearinghouse and Regional Education Laboratories.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2018

The school is just one of many experimenting with replacing traditional laboratory classes with VR labs. Pate thinks that people have always held traditional laboratories on a pedestal. The question remains if one day, virtual reality labs can replace physical ones. That was not possible 10 years ago.” Best as a Complement?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

To create the videos, we filmed mentor and mentee pairs of students who identify as Black, Latino/a, South Asian, and Persian as they shared lunches and laboratories while studying material science, chemistry, microbiological organisms and neurological brain functions. Courtesy of Ed Madison.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It's a great question. No question. But no question, it's very costly to be the parent of a newborn and up. And so I use that just as sort of a framing device in the opening of the book to ask the question around, ‘What else are we getting really boldly and catastrophically wrong?’ No question.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

They all ask the same question: How do you get from early-stage innovation and R&D to adoption across an an organization as complex as a public research university? Worrying over questions about culture, data and technology could easily constrain our thinking from the start. Be impractical. Then consider constraints.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. A video demo of the latest version of ChatGPT tutoring a student that went viral on YouTube has brought fresh attention to this question.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

But their needs are frequently expressed at a relatively abstract level that doesn’t easily translate into specific researchable questions of the type supported by IES. Regional education laboratories: $55,423,000. Teachers are desperate for information about how to manage classrooms in this new environment. Statistics: $109,500,000.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Plenty of colleagues on other campuses were wrestling with the same question, she saw in the portfolios, and they were finding ways that tried new approaches without throwing out the old completely—call it turning the class on its side rather than making a full flip.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. But no matter how driven people are to return to the product, one question remains: Does its language training work? “We can’t teach them if they don’t come back.” What propels a person to apply that effort? As a free tool, it’s widely available and widely tried.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With Numerade Plus, students and teachers will have access to a full suite of education features, including over 100 million textbook video solutions, expert-verified answers, full-length video courses, custom quizzes, unlimited “Ask an Expert” questions, and an AI chatbot tutor powered by GPT-4.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2021

Developed by the Earth Science Communications and Visualization Technology Applications and Development Teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with support from NASA Headquarters, the app is free but available only for iOS. The Four Seasons. App (iOS only), Grades K-2.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

The biggest question in educational virtual reality: “Is it all hype?” I was in the beta version of a beautiful virtual laboratory with white walls, microscopes, icons representing different environments and a teleportation station that would take students to the various scenes within Lifeliqe.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

My 15-year-old students had the confidence to email and call some of the top scientists in the country to ask questions about what they had read and seek advice for their own experiments It was an ambitious and daunting task. How could all of this fit in to a student’s scheduled day? I decided we would use the before-school zero period.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In addition to the donations of $15 million of high-performance computing systems, AMD has contributed technology and technical resources to nearly double the peak system of the “Corona” system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory which is being used to provide additional computing power for molecular modeling in support of COVID-19 research.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

District Superintendent, Ulster BOCES CTE and career readiness As an engineering teacher who runs a hands-on laboratory class, I like to start the year off by exposing my students to all the industry equipment and industry-certified credentials that they will have access to throughout the year. — Jonah M. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Grants and donations became common, providing both competition and incentive to innovate and answer fundamental questions in the scientific realm.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: There is a fierce debate around online learning vs. classroom learning Discover online learning vs. classroom learning research Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Determining whether students learn better with in-person classroom learning or online is a multifaceted question.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s basically the question that our technology is designed to answer. But our technology is designed to help answer a different question—what could you be great at? That’s a question we should always be asking, not just in a crisis when whole categories of jobs disappear overnight. That’s a great question.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The tools and gadgets and innovative school structures are without question helpful, but alone they can’t make the difference. We wanted to prove that it wasn’t just “the best and the brightest” who could achieve at this level—and it certainly wasn’t only elementary and high school students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

At the center of my work, one question remains constant, “What is the purpose?” If the overall goal is to foster in humans the ability to think critically about the world around them, then our classroom should be the laboratory for that concept. It gives them an education that is authentic and truly useful in the context of real life.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

But the challenges and constraints of practical educational settings mean laboratory-based findings don’t readily translate into the kinds of practices, resources and tools that can meaningfully improve teaching and learning. For example, look not just at a single school but at a multitude of disparate schools.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Kimberly Ideus , Emporia State University Ning Sui, North Carolina State University Key Statement: Transparency in a lab report template and rubric enhances the scientific integrity for undergraduate biochemistry students in laboratory courses. Does providing a template limit student creativity?

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