Gaggle Speaks

MAY 8, 2015

Although you’re not likely to bring in Italian rugs or French artwork to the classroom, the learning space is a very important aspect of effective teaching. Think about how science classrooms are arranged much differently than writing or math classrooms. Assignment Organization. Provide a Feedback Loop.

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Learning Spaces Hybrid Courses Learning Assignments 83

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Schools across the globe pivoted to online learning within days as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across countries, shuttered physical learning spaces, and shed light on learning inequities. Check back each day for the next story in our countdown. ”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The resources and tools once used in the classroom have changed and the environment in which students gathered to learn is transforming into a more personalized, high-tech and collaborative space. Education is moving beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and is surpassing skills assessment through standardized testing.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 Teachers, already overburdened with bloated class sizes and punishing schedules, aren’t always around after school hours to answer their students’ questions. The most common stressors include homework (55.1 percent), studying for tests (48.8 Alarmingly, 72.6

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Schools across the globe pivoted to online learning within days as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across countries, shuttered physical learning spaces, and shed light on learning inequities. But a second pandemic–systemic racism–has lingered in schools and education policies for far too long. ”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. My students didn’t question it. If we can provide 1:1 tablets, surely we can do 1:1 clipboards plus a class wagon, or “go-bin,” with writing utensils, foam sit spots, and a portable whiteboard. We held class chasing shade.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2024

Key points: The outdoors is teeming with teachable moments Outdoor classrooms should outlast COVID How outdoor learning spaces lead to STEM engagement For more news on outdoor learning, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Spending time outdoors and engaging in active play has all kinds of benefits for young children.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

An equally pressing issue is navigating the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the teaching and learning space. During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Give me a starting sentence for this paragraph.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. One day, I asked my students to write an exit ticket responding to a section of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and John submitted a full paragraph.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

An equally pressing issue is navigating the increasing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the teaching and learning space. During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Give me a starting sentence for this paragraph.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 89

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2024

So LAUSD’s AI chatbot serves as a new layer that sits on top of the other systems the district already pays for, allowing students and parents to ask questions and get answers based on data pulled from many existing tools. But the system does not just sit back and wait for students and parents to ask it questions.

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Schools Assignments Intelligence Questions 207

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

They’re asking students to send in short video responses to questions or share their arguments by submitting short video presentations. I can see if there are children running around, or I can see what kind of chaos they might have in their learning space.” In this day and age I personally don’t like writing very much,” he says.

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Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 148

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Metacognition in action As Saul worked on his essay, he critically examined the role of the American Dream as both an inspiration and a challenge for society, writing: The American Dream made people think too much about money and follow rich businessmen as examples. A story like this can make heroes like Martin Luther King Jr.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 161

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Writing for and advocating to authentic audiences around societal issues that we’re passionate about is inspiring. Writing 5-paragraph essays about books that we don’t care about is not. Investigating our own questions about the world and how it works is inspiring. Pretend word problems and scenarios are not.

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Interdisciplinary Essay Textbooks Learning Spaces 108

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 187

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

Case Western Reserve documented its first - and second -year efforts to add two active-learning spaces and support faculty teaching in the space. Indiana University has a campus-wide Mosaic initiative to encourage and support active and collaborative learning in all classrooms. It’s still all about the people.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 147

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

We hardly think twice about spell-check and other auto-correct features in writing software—in fact, their absence would make some feel rather lost and empty. That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. That’s an ironic title.

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Technology Writing Beliefs Essay 168

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

Marc Brackett’s book guided me to rethink the way I was approaching social-emotional learning with students. In his book, Brackett writes that “.how I ask the student how they are feeling, if they have any questions about their assignments and if anything is new since the last time we spoke. But clearly that’s insufficient.

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Communication Math Assignments Testing 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2024

For instance, experts from a coursework writing service are often driven by an internal passion to do their job well and to deliver excellent academic papers to maintain the company’s high reputation. Curiosity is the trigger for intrinsic motivation, which pushes students to wonder, ask questions, and of course, discover new things.

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Motivation Students Feedback Achievement 174

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Whether conveyed through music, art, writing, or oral storytellingsharing ones lived experience can have a profound impact. Ways to Integrate Storytelling in the Classroom Storytelling Templates: Offer a simple storytelling template to guide students in their reflective thinking and writing. The power of human stories is undeniable.

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Students Writing Art Learning Spaces 105

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

When VoiceThread’s founders first started dabbling in software, they aimed to answer a key question: If you took an image and recorded the audio stories behind it, would this digital artifact have more value? Kids draw something, and then the teacher acts as a scribe and writes out what it is. So, it really is a transformative thing.

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Feedback Assignments History Evaluation 192

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

A national sample of over 5,000 educators answered the same questions about how they were feeling. It’s no surprise that teachers who are burnt out are more likely to leave the profession, which impacts student learning and puts a huge drain on schools. The second question is: What do we need to do for everyone to feel this way?

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Teachers Distance Learning Intelligence Study 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Whether conveyed through music, art, writing, or oral storytellingsharing ones lived experience can have a profound impact. Ways to Integrate Storytelling in the Classroom Storytelling Templates: Offer a simple storytelling template to guide students in their reflective thinking and writing. The power of human stories is undeniable.

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Students Writing Art Learning Spaces 97

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray share their expertise on modern learning spaces. Murray and Sheninger, co-authors of Learning Transformed: 8 Keys to Designing Tomorrow’s Schools, Today , published by ASCD in 2017, will be featured speakers at the #ICE18 conference in Schaumburg, Ill., We can ask questions, we can answer questions.

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Learning Spaces Internet Beliefs Culture 131

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Classrooms throughout the district are outfitted equitably with technology and have an adequate infrastructure teachers need for engaging learning environments. They started the project in the classroom, switched seamlessly to remote learning and then finished the project with an in-person celebration that melts the heart!

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 261

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

But how do we infuse warmth in digital learning spaces through written communication ? As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever.

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Culture Communication Languages Language 122

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

We sought to answer the following questions: How is technology used in the classroom? para Workspace in one central dashboard, so learners can easily sort through all the noise in the digital learning space and get down to what’s most important: learning. What do students say about organization in the digital classroom?

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Assignments Mobile Devices Students Communication 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Educational innovators might: Write a book - publish on Kindle or iTunes. Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. They might sell some content they created, write a book, or build an app, for example.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Many of the stories here provide an answer to education’s perennial question: How can we make the time we spend with students just a little better? It poses, perhaps, a different question: Are states doing enough to improve the lives—and livelihoods—of today’s working teacher? Re-notice your space. And ask more questions.

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Ethics Plagiarism English Writing 125

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

However, the incorporation of AI in self-paced learning isn’t without its challenges. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface. One of the most common questions we get asked from faculty is about student’s use of ChatGPT to answer questions.

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Student Engagement eLearning Authentic Assessment Instructors 133

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Everything that Josh said is certainly what motivated us to write this book and about things that we’re fascinated by and interested in. Maloney: If we do not continue to pay attention to the value and the import of really reflecting on and innovating in the teaching and learning space, then it won’t be enough. Is it enough?

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Education History Art Essay 204

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

But how do we infuse warmth in digital learning spaces through written communication ? As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever.

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Culture Communication Languages Language 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

After their presentation or performance, the class discusses what they saw and provides feedback on the experience, or may ask follow-up questions of the students in the center; then, the inner and outer groups switch roles and the process may be repeated. They are like “fish in a fishbowl” because they can be seen from all angles.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Students 138

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

In other words, our learning space is perfectly imperfect: We have enough supervision and expertise to guide the students to realize their goals, and the students have enough space to rise to challenges, encounter failure, encourage one another and stall out only to find a way over an obstacle and see a task to completion.

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Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

However, the incorporation of AI in self-paced learning isn’t without its challenges. Questions of data privacy, technical requirements, and the potential loss of the human touch in education often surface. One of the most common questions we get asked from faculty is about student’s use of ChatGPT to answer questions.

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Student Engagement eLearning Authentic Assessment Instructors 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

a reflection, quiz, writing exercise, or note taking activity). Scagnoli (2012) has identified several important benefits of microlectures for students: Microlectures allow for self-paced learning. These brief, personal, and interactive videos provide manageable, connected, and engaging learning opportunities for students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats.

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