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 A new arts class at Jay M.

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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. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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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 also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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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

JUNE 14, 2024

It can also act as a study companion, generating practice questions, summarizing key points from e-textbooks and webpages, and much more. Additionally, students can use ChatGPT to learn new languages, receive personalized tutoring, and explore new subjects at their own pace.

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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

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. “I spend less time waiting for students to copy notes and more time helping students work problems,” Sowinski said.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. A web version of the app that will work on Chromebooks will be available soon, in addition to a Spanish-language release. What does AR look like in the humanities?

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close. For example, from 9 a.m.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Those applications are fine, but I talk a lot about h ow to integrate technology in cool ways for engagement purposes , like during social studies or math lessons or science. The amount of engagement you are going to have because you are incorporating technology into a language arts lesson is going to go way up. .

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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. The primary purpose of NaTakallam is to meet a global need—and not the one for language services.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Imagine sending a teenage driver onto a highway in an unfamiliar area, where road signs are in a foreign language, lanes change direction without warning, fog and rain obscure visibility, the car has faulty brakes, and the passengers are giving bad directions. Madness, right? But these challenges are surmountable.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a high-functioning ereader for ELA, social studies, and science students in grades 2-12. They can look up words they don’t understand and translate the text into a long list of languages that may be their native or a secondary language they are learning. for foreign language classes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” The Classcraft dashboard. Today, the company has 50 full-time employees.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

IXL was also chosen because its skills align perfectly to Maryland’s state standards , the district’s Illustrative Mathematics textbooks and the NWEA MAP Growth assessment. After seeing strong results, MCPS expanded IXL’s use to high school math courses, including Algebra I, Algebra II and Geometry.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

When EdSurge checked the collection in July, the site listed about 3,600 materials for Social Studies, and now shows about the same. It showed 7,200 results for English Language Arts, and now shows about 8,300. Slow Growth Amazon would not answer questions about how fast the service is growing.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. Funding for language arts products, by contrast, has seen a recent uptick. With OERs, educators can become curriculum makers.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

Then he checked by discipline, comparing math to science to English/language arts. In math, 14 percent of adoptions are OER, compared to 4 percent for English/language arts, 2 percent for science and 1 percent for history and social studies. Still nothing. No discernible patterns.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Pedagogy matters as well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? Ask your students. They still think the lessons are boring. Teachers With Apps.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In April 2019, Renaissance acquired progress monitoring tools provider Early Learning Labs , followed a month later by buying Freckle Education , a provider of online lessons, exercises and assessments for math, English language arts, social studies and science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Common practice was to assign a chapter to read in a textbook and then a worksheet to assess student knowledge. And they’re put out by recognized names in education — Khan Academy, BBC, Microsoft, Teacher Tube, as well as textbook providers like Origo. When I started teaching, videos were a rarity.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI). How body language and facial expressions and animated conversations tell you kids are challenged and engaged. TCI created the History Alive!

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “Even our Quran is written in verse.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In an earlier article on computational thinking , I offered teasers of how CT could be integrated into language arts and social studies, in addition to math and science. Socially-conscious students in secondary grades may similarly consider analyzing representation of historically underrepresented groups in popular media.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

“Political socialization, a lot of that happens online,” says Ioana Literat, professor of communication, media and learning technologies design at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “We We like to think that it happens in school in civics class, or the social studies classroom.

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