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. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2015

Many traditional classrooms and learning spaces have a data projector or TV screen that is used by the teacher or students to present information. Next page: How Miracast technology stacks up in real tests. Wires in classrooms are an inconvenience, yet they have been an inescapable fact of life for over a decade.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent of students reported having a test, quiz, or exam within their first week of school. percent), studying for tests (48.8 Many are already feeling the pressures that come with it, particularly the load of homework and studying. In a survey conducted on Brainly.com on August 21, 2024, 60.5 Alarmingly, 72.6

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This year, Donahoo’s EAST students are in the process of testing and discovering the new equipment in one of Creston’s two brand-new next-generation learning spaces, also called 21st century classrooms. Better known by the acronym EAST, these classes combine the use of technology with community service.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Even before the pandemic, school field trips were on the decline due to several factors, including tighter budgets, heavier workloads and standardized tests, according to. Founded in 1994, CILC has been a leader in the interactive virtual learning space before “remote learning” and “virtual experiences” were catchphrases.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Whether you are eliciting student feedback, encouraging independence, or trying to reduce students’ cognitive and emotional loads, a high-quality classroom management system will have tools to help you make your classroom a safe space for experimentation and growth.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

Offering Strategic Hardware Solutions: ClassIn X transforms traditional classrooms into outcome-driven hybrid learning spaces through an IoT hardware package that digitizes the physical classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

My curriculum at a project-based learning charter school was mine to invent. My students and I were insulated from many standardized tests and accountability pressures. In fall 2020, many districts, schools, and individual educators across the country took to learning outdoors out of necessity. We had a great park nearby.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Form follows function, as the adage says, but these universities are flipping that script and betting that a more flexible and adaptive form will unlock needed changes in the teaching and learning function. And that dialogue helps inform the work of IU’s learning spaces team.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

This combination allows educators around the world to use the interactive projector with collaborative learning software to create visually compelling, engaging and interactive learning experiences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Yet my students’ successes indicate that the conditions that often make school difficult for marginalized students—such as required minutes per course, attendance requirements, traditional testing—are neutralized or at least equalized in a competency-based system.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2021

After undergoing Microsoft’s rigorous testing process, the HDL300 system becomes the first microphone and speaker bar to be certified for large meeting spaces up to 15′ x 28′ (4.5 Nureva Inc., About Nureva audio solutions. Nureva Inc.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

has announced two new education solutions to enhance science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) curriculum, and create more collaborative learning spaces. “As We have two courses based on the solution where students are able to learn computer programming and test apps using STEM Fuse and Samsung’s Galaxy Tablets.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Relationship-oriented, innovative leadership practices are core to creating a culture of learning that will prepare students for their future--not our past. Key #2: The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. Key #4: Learning spaces must become learner-centered. A budget impasse. A political attack.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Education settings that celebrate family participation help students and teachers understand different ways of thinking and create inclusive learning spaces. Meanwhile, educators learn more about their students’ lives, which helps them teach better.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

PBL and WBL rely heavily on a student growth mindset, which challenges learners to demonstrate their understanding in ways other than test scores or grades. Students may capture their learning without the constraints of a specific class time. Digital portfolios are an invaluable tool to support these student-centered pedagogies.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. The two main courses currently offered are engineering and industrial design.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2018

They create classrooms designed to maximize student learning, and do everything from fine-tuning lesson plans and homework assignments to organizing the physical layout of their learning spaces. Lean methodology, as explained in “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries , meshes well with the advantages a school has in innovation.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

Connecting emotions to learning has helped me develop more relevant lessons, and taking the time to help students understand the range of emotions they feel, while empowering them with strategies to change their emotions, completely transformed my instruction. Test scores may not be the final say when it comes to measuring success.

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Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Incorporate into Learning Spaces >> The learning space is a very important aspect of effective teaching. Here are three components to consider for your learning space when using an LMS. Our Customer Service Supervisor, Kim Janvrin, came up with these ways an LMS can help students prepare for a test.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

Matt’s Maker Space is a place where kids can explore science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) through experiential and hands-on learning. Interested in innovative spaces? What is Remake Learning Days Across America? What can we test and explore in the world around us? Learn circuitry?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

They are great performing projectors and have been our standard classroom display technology for years,” said Doug Smith, director of learning spaces and AV technologies, Illinois State University. Measured by acceleration test assuming use of 0.04 – 0.20 “The PowerLite series has been an absolute workhorse for us.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

Middle school students have used a mix of laser cutters, three-dimensional printers and wood-cutting tools to develop turbochargers and crash test protection devices that solve real-world issues in the automotive industry.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

At Central Piedmont Community College in North Carolina, faculty members who notice that students need extra support can refer them for assistance to the Digital Literacy Learning Space , which offers training about using email, the internet, Google tools and specialty software.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

Soft seating options for students to be comfortable as they investigate independently and learn. Interior Sketch of a Collaborative, Personalized Learning Space (Source: Catherine Lange) Creating these flexible interior environments is a giant step toward personalizing learning for students. Certainly.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. Critical Thinking Spaces Spark Opportunities for All.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Here at Kuna Middle School in Kuna, Idaho (a quiet farm suburb outside Boise), we run a cross-curricular project-based learning learning environment that we call Synergy, where students work on one project at a time and all four core areas—Math, ELA, Science, and History—are integrated into those projects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2020

The primary source of their frustration and stress pertained to not feeling supported by their administration around challenges related to meeting all of their students’ learning needs, high-stakes testing, an ever-changing curriculum and work/life balance. This can be applied to traditional school settings and to a virtual one.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. It offers twenty-five different timed tests with varied degrees of difficulty to cover each of the four operations or a mix of all.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Morrison points to a Carnegie Mellon study that found that too many things on walls can result in lower test scores. After freeing up more space, they were able to turn file cabinets into benches and learning spaces. They cleaned out classroom clutter, including visual distractions on the walls.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The user interface of Cortex is like a Candyland game board, where students learn units through lessons and playlists and see their progress. Suzuki-Allen likes that Cortex is self-paced: “I can review my lesson, get tutoring online or in-person, then take a test to show if I mastered it. Self] pacing is one of the best things.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Source: The House Author and school design consultant Robert Dillon calls the variation in learning spaces—large tables, sitting areas and glass-walled breakout rooms—“micro-environments,” and says it’s similar to what districts around the country are attempting to create using open learning spaces and flexible furniture. “I

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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., They want learning to be personal.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The harsh reality is that each time I've tried to find a solution, I’ve had to lug my students along with me to test it out, which has created constant change and disruption, when what my students need most is consistency. They should not have to endure this back and forth.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The solutions also overcome the limitations associated with webcams and all-in-one systems that were designed for small meeting spaces and have insufficient microphone pickup range for classroom environments. About Nureva Nureva Inc.

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