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

MAY 5, 2025

This feeling of not being a math person creates the mindset that ones math ability cannot change meaningfully over time through study and practice. The teacher and textbook arent the sole authorities in the classroom. It becomes the anchor for coherent expectations and a common language that supports teaching and learning schoolwide.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2015

One simple way of understanding our ed-tech pedagogical theory is that we don’t want computing devices to just become replacements for notebooks and textbooks. We want students to use them to construct understanding, to demonstrate their learning within their courses of study, and to mess around with.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Students and educators will have access to a collection of more than 1 million online textbooks and image databases that can be used for instruction on subjects, such as social studies, the language arts, and science.

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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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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. By the nonprofit’s estimates, more than half of U.S. colleges use at least one.

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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 impact in Texas.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

He then went on to study school psychology and special education in graduate school. There are five magnet schools in the elementary levels—a school for arts, aerospace and engineering, medical science, international studies, and technology. At my first board meeting, I said that we have to take back all these textbooks.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

According to a 2016 study by LendEDU , more than half of 18- to 24-year-olds wish they’d taken a personal finance course in high school. 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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The UEPC’s study shows that IXL can be a reliable partner in Utah educators’ efforts toward recovering learning, differentiating instruction and boosting achievement in math.” IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons.

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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 A new arts class at Jay M.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Part library, part innovation hub, part quiet study nook, it offers flexible zones where students can choose how they learn bestwhether thats brainstorming with peers, diving into solo study, or using digital tools to bring projects to life. Its about building understanding through firsthand experiences, not just textbooks.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day. A language is something to absorb, not to memorize. Beniko Mason , that’s helping to reshape what acquiring a language in school looks like.

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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

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. The study investigated hundreds of public schools in Pennsylvania that used IXL Math or IXL ELA.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2023

The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. In them, an animated avatar made to look like the 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace taught the basics of the Python programming language. He’s not the only person thinking this way.

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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 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

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

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. The type of learning and work environments students will experience after they graduate resemble the traditional “sage-on-the-stage,” textbook-driven model of teaching less and less. Provide real-world opportunities.

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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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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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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. Create digital study guides that can be accessed online.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Another Language A reader from Utah : “For me the breakthrough was finding out math is just another language with its own grammar and syntax. It is a language that is very eloquent at describing what we see in the natural world, and like all languages conveys meaning and understanding. The issue is algebra skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

And Digital Learning, Research & Instruction Librarian Robin Ashford shared this approach at George Fox University: “Identifying quality OER, helping faculty & students author open textbooks or purchasing library ebooks to replace costly textbooks is how I work developing our textbook affordability program.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes. In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook.

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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. Ask any first year college student studying education, and their face will light up. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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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. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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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

Laptops and internet connections are not available in every household , and even students who usually have such resources available may now find themselves competing for them with siblings or parents studying or working from home. But educators who want to make sure they reach every student don’t have to resort to mailing printed worksheets.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

Educational Video Content Creators Educational video content creators are empowering educators to bring lessons to life in ways textbooks simply can’t. EBook Libraries EBook libraries are changing how students access reading materials, making heavy backpacks filled with textbooks a thing of the past.

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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. and Kharbeet is 5,000 miles away in Turkey.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

SplashLearn’s game-based learning platform—available in 150+ countries and already used by more than 40 million children—features thousands of research-informed games aimed at instructing young learners in English language arts and math. Research and efficacy studies have really had an impact. Recommended Resources for Educators.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. This initiative helps students strengthen their academic foundations, develop better study habits, and build resilience.

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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. This requires an understanding of the students in the class, something we can’t ask AI for.

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