Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

One student, Johnny, is a talented artist but reads and writes well below grade level. His catchphrase is “Oh, writing isn’t my thing.” Building a classroom community in which all students feel valued and respected, and creating a learning space where everyone feels safe openly sharing their stories will take a lot of work.

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Writing Assignments English Essay 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Language teacher Serena Maniscalco never thought a composting initiative she led several years ago would lead to the development of an learning space that would help so many students grow. They had to write out a three-year plan for the garden and, along with some students, present it to some members of the school board.

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Learning Spaces Learning Language Languages 133

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

JULY 28, 2021

has been rocked by a global pandemic, the impact of systemic racism, and acts of political violence, many educators have wondered how to create a “learning space” to address difficult subjects. In a year where the U.S.

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Learning Spaces Coaching Students Writing 254

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Finally, summarize key points to maintain focus and encourage students to write down any questions they may have for later. It’s time to conclude the discussion in a way that lets students remember what they’ve learned and lets them prioritize the facts. What do scientists or professionals have to say on this topic?

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Discussions Writing Questions Feedback 288

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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Schools Internet Learning Spaces Writing 254

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Self-led, active learning will also see a rise as teachers enable students to work at their own pace and make more decisions about their learning––from what types of assignments they complete to how they want to work in the classroom. With easy-to-use AI art generators becoming more popular, they may use AI in creative endeavors.

Education 357

Education Motivation Game-Based Learning Assignments 357

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

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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Schools Internet Learning Spaces Writing 212

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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Teachers Assignments Students Participation 240

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. 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. So we headed to a park a few minutes walk from our sauna.

Ethics 270

Ethics Writing History English 270

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 As another survey conducted on September 3, 2024, by Brainly.com of 1,500 students revealed, 72 percent of high school students are stressed about returning to school this year. The most common stressors include homework (55.1 percent), studying for tests (48.8 Alarmingly, 72.6 percent).

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Essay Schools Ethics Students 276

eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Self-led, active learning will also see a rise as teachers enable students to work at their own pace and make more decisions about their learning––from what types of assignments they complete to how they want to work in the classroom. With easy-to-use AI art generators becoming more popular, they may use AI in creative endeavors.

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Education Motivation Game-Based Learning Reading 305

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It allows me to share my morning message, where each student comes up to the board to write their name, circle the letter of the day, and engage in drawing and coloring activities. Morning meeting: My primary tool for our morning meetings is the interactive whiteboard. These are just some basic ideas on how to use the interactive whiteboard.

Beliefs 245

Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 245

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.

Collaborative Research 89

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 89

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2019

Over the past several years, schools throughout the country have embraced a modern learning environment approach to classroom design, incorporating devices for students and teachers, advanced audiovisual tools and flexible furniture to create dynamic, student-centered learning spaces. by Calvin Hennick.

Learning 167

Learning Learning Spaces Classroom Design Writing 167

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

As first-year writing professors at community colleges, if we don’t meet this moment with intention, we will leave our most vulnerable students behind. Even those students who didn’t feel their AI’s response effectively captured their learning style appreciated how it offered a game plan for tackling our accelerated course.

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English Syllabus Ethics Students 148

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.

Accessibility 172

Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020. Thomas School Dedicates Space to Bolster STEM Learning. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says.

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STEM Education Learning Spaces Culture 163

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.

Learning 294

Learning Motivation Activities Skills 294

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. The centers all have laptops.

Technology 168

Technology Writing Beliefs Essay 168

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.

Active Learning 147

Active Learning Activities Learning Instructors 147

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

“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 the course evaluations at the end of the semester they write that our class has really formed a community,” she says. 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

MAY 3, 2024

This may take the form of 360-degree videos, which could be anything from a student-produced puppet show to students writing a scene and acting it out, but I’m also interested in having students create and code custom SEL CoSpaces for other students to use.

Special Education 282

Special Education Education Students Feedback 282

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. Internships and community partnerships and impactful service learning opportunities are inspiring. Pretend word problems and scenarios are not.

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Interdisciplinary Essay Textbooks Learning Spaces 108

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

Renton recently completed the second year of a multi-year program that started with inviting students to codesign the new vision and to become creators of their own learning experience. Students have more agency in their education and are becoming creators and contributors in the learning process.

Teaching 138

Teaching Education Learning Culture 138

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 Art Writing Learning Spaces 105

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

To better understand how they are faring, we looked at their self-reported feelings over the past couple months, as marked by thousands of check-ins on our social-emotional learning (SEL) platform. Students mark an emoji on a 5-point scale (pictured) and then write reflections on their progress in academics and emotional well-being.

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Students High School High School Attention 218

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

Kids draw something, and then the teacher acts as a scribe and writes out what it is. It’s an example of the appropriate use of big tech and its impact on the learning space. And so you get a sentence of text underneath a picture. Once they get that service from us, everything is just captioned. It's not replacing teachers.

Feedback 192

Feedback Assignments History Evaluation 192

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.

Students 97

Students Art Writing Learning Spaces 97

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.

Gamification 135

Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 135

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In a 2021 survey from the College Innovation Network, 20 percent of students at four-year colleges said they struggled learning new edtech tools. And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations.

Teaching 202

Teaching Culture Internet Students 202

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

But how do we infuse warmth in digital learning spaces through written communication ? With the advent of AI, the limitations of ChatGPT are a good reminder that effective writing is human writing. How we write to our classes—even more so than what we write—is more important than ever. or misspell “Puhleaze!”

Culture 122

Culture Communication Language Languages 122

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2024

The first job of Ed was, how do you create one unified learning space that brings together all the digital tools, and that eliminates the high number of clicks that otherwise the student would need to navigate through them all?”

Schools 207

Schools Assignments Intelligence Questions 207

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.

Motivation 174

Motivation Students Feedback Achievement 174

EdTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2018

Reconfiguring the learning space efficiently is important for a modern classroom. I use a music stand as a podium on which I keep my lesson plans, notes, writing utensils and teacher resources. I use the cup holder for my coffee, and my writing utensils sit perfectly in the molded tray. Nothing falls off.

Writing 119

Writing Learning Spaces Teachers Technology 119

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 During another lesson, Jennifer was able to communicate to her group members that they need to be less withdrawn and really focus on the lesson they were supposed to complete.

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Communication Math Assignments Testing 202