eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

The team began with the open-ended question, “How might we pilot different practices related to cell phone/social media use to gauge the effectiveness or impact on student well-being, engagement and sense of belonging?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Here’s a quick overview of the legalities associated with their use for schools: Legal Risks and Obligations for Schools Using AI Tutors AI tutors are quickly changing how students learn, offering personalized support across different subjects and formats. Who is responsible if an AI gives bad advice or shares sensitive student data?

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? According to a recent survey by Anthology (2023) , 60% of students in the US have used AI tools, with 10% reporting weekly use 38% using them monthly. Lets confront the reality: students are using AI.

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JULY 10, 2025

These are a great chance for your child to ask questions, get clarification, and interact with their teachers, just like in a physical classroom. These give students a chance to meet their teachers and classmates, share a bit about themselves, and feel like part of a learning community. Encourage your child to participate!

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

For example, you might decide to start your day with daily question slides or creative thinking journals. Homeschool Teaching Aids Flipbooks Finally, flipbooks are the ultimate learning tool for teaching new concepts. This routine signals to your child that it’s time to transition from “home mode” to “school mode” for the day.

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JULY 24, 2025

Online Learning Components Homeschooling can be completed without computers, but most homeschooling parents integrate digital learning tools. Either option might use online lectures, digital texts, gamified learning, instructional videos, and online forums.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2017

Ultimately, it helps to begin by asking three questions: Why am I exploring a digital learning ecosystem for my students? How can I ensure my digital learning ecosystem will support my students? Ultimately, these systems help students take ownership of their own learning, inside the classroom and out.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consider your district, schools, departments, and educators, and ask the following four questions at a team meeting to ensure you’re all on the same page and experiencing these challenges and solutions with common understanding. To explore how to increase the return on investment (ROI) of education technology, let’s take an inquiry approach.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 12, 2021

For K–12 education, it’s no longer a question of whether online learning is here to stay but, rather, how can we make it better for our teachers and students? Even before the pandemic, the situation in many areas demonstrated the potential for the meteoric growth of online learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2015

The Learning Inventory has been changed from a question, word-based format to an image-only format. Now picture and audio friendly, version 2.0 encourages young learners to upload their own sound clips and photos, and attach them to goals they create. Material from a press release was used in this report.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2020

How can we keep them learning remotely? What strategies and technology tools can teachers leverage to take their traditional classes online? I have fielded multiple questions about the best ways to engage students and leverage online learning tools if schools close for a period of time. PrepOnlineLesson.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

It allows you to create or search pre-made question sets and host a variety of games that students can join. Students answer multiple-choice questions on their devices while seeing fun memes, leaderboards, and progress bars. Other question types include fill-in-the-blank, true or false, drag-and-drop, and matching.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Digital testing can help level the playing field, reducing logistical hurdles while allowing for adaptive question formats that better gauge individual abilities. These tools can serve as virtual tutors and study partners, enabling students to receive targeted assistance based on their unique strengths and weaknesses.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2021

.” A key part of the update is the continued ability of the features and tools to meet the needs of in-person, hybrid, or remote learners. “One thing we’ve been very cognizant of as we built the tools is it’s not just an online/hybrid learning tool,” Ediger said. from polling to?open-end

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2022

Hybrid learning has numerous benefits for your students, parents, and teachers, including increased flexibility, accessibility, and the ability to use innovative learning tools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2017

This can be done using hands-on learning tools like robotics, which intuitively teaches students how to problem solve using critical thinking. Students today are accustomed to tests where the questions only have one right answer. Set the expectation up-front that there is more than one answer.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

As educational AI research tries to keep up with AI development, questions remain surrounding the impact of AI use on student motivation and overall learning. These questions are particularly significant for students of color, who consistently encounter more systemic barriers than their white peers ( Frausto et al.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2023

This brings up some pressing questions, though, and as with any new technology, it will take time before we reach definitive answers. Simply by using a collection of prompts, I can direct AI to write, draw, code, and perform any number of difficult tasks in ways I otherwise couldn’t. The only limit is your imagination!

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2020

Research shows us that children need rich and frequent oral language experiences in their younger years to set the foundation for long-term learning. Storytelling, pretending, asking questions, and reading books are all important for language development.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2018

Collaborating on a Google Doc is fun and convenient, but blended learning should be more than that. Effective blended-learning tools should share a few key characteristics that distinguish them from tools that are simply digital in nature. Before implementing a tool, ask yourself these three questions: 1.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2015

As the principal of Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in Manhattan, I know firsthand how cellphones can both help students stay in touch in today’s world and how they can be a valuable teaching and learning tool in the school setting.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Key points: Digital learning tools must engage students in modern ways How 5 educators use digital tools in the classroom Hands-on learning will help Gen Alpha reach new levels of technical innovation For more on digital classrooms, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Today’s kids are built differently.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

This new offering integrates AI Assist, an advanced tool designed to save teachers time and elevate student engagement through AI-generated quiz-based activities and assessments. Designing effective quizzes takes timeespecially when crafting well-balanced multiple-choice questions with plausible wrong answers to encourage critical thinking.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

The panel of presenters challenged everyone to ask themselves two important questions whenever designing instruction and learning opportunities for all students: “Is it Accessible?” Microsoft Learning Tools : Free tools to improve reading and writing skills for all ages and abilities. and “Is it Awesome?”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Key points: Dyslexic students often incur additional stress in the classroom Using different learning tools and regular communication can help students’ comfort levels See related article: The intersection of the science of reading and edtech Reading-based learning differences such as dyslexia can pose unique challenges for students in school.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2021

Teachers simply upload their PDF into TeacherMade, then drag-and-drop interactive questions on top of it, turning the digital PDF into an interactive document. Teachers then send this digital worksheet to their students, and the students answer the questions online using their laptop, Chromebook, or tablet.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

Through the platform, I create interactive lessons where students practice answering common interview questions. Additionally, I guide my students in choosing appropriate interview attire by having them select outfits from their wardrobe and take pictures of their choices, using the tools directly in Classkick.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Phenomena-based learning involves leveraging real-world scenarios and observations in learning to help students better understand their environment and uncover the steps necessary to solve problems and answer complex questions. Try, fail, learn, repeat. Or, if you’re Maynard Kereke (Hip Hop M.D.),

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2015

For teachers, the Classroom Atlas has great learning tools to use as quiz material, including questions to teach students how to think critically, and brain teasers. questions presenting interesting facts about the world. Did you know? Key geographical terms in an alphabetical glossary.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hybrid learning has numerous benefits for your students, parents, and teachers, including increased flexibility, accessibility, and the ability to use innovative learning tools. When crafting online learning activities, this is the perfect opportunity to create lessons that encourage independent thinking and student choice.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

“We created these distance learning solutions because we want to help our community in this time of need, and we know that our online resources, created with distance learning in mind, can be of great value.”. Distance Learning Tools Offer Educators New Ways to Engage Students Remotely.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2023

Once you find the video you want to use, you can use the TED-Ed Lessons editor to add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources. The TED-Ed platform is especially cool because educators can build lessons around any TED-Ed Original, TED Talk, or YouTube video.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2023

The auto-graded questions embedded along with the open-ended free response questions allow for immediate feedback to students about what they are doing and if they are on the right track or not (something that even in-person labs do not have.)

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2024

In many situations, students will work on these projects for weeks or months at a time, which helps them develop deeper content knowledge when attempting to answer complex questions and resolve real-world problems. For example, Google Classroom can be used to create project materials.

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