eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

We try to show them every day that they are capable of doing anything that they set their minds to, but how often do we follow our own advice and push our own boundaries to try or learn something new?

Problem-Based Learning

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

After all, its easy to imagine how technologies such as AI tools, robots, VR headsets , and computers, for example, can be used to support learning in these settings. Physical movement supports academics There is significant evidence of the connection between physical movement and learning. But gymnasiums?

Technology

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Key points: Deeper learning helps immerse students in a more engaging education model Redesigning the educational model after COVID Educational leaders must leverage collaboration for success For more news on district leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Today’s students need to develop a broad and well-rounded body of knowledge.

Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When we asked the Ask a Tech Teacher team to apply it specifically to teaching physical education–not something we usually think of with tech tools–they came up with these great ideas: Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies! It is also having an impact on physical education and health.

Teaching

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. By offering meaningful choices, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to successfully apply and communicate their learning, accommodating their unique strengths and preferences.

History

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. But if you are not effectively teaching the students who struggle most, you are perpetuating educational inequity.

Students

eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

How and where our students learn has radically changed over the last 10 months. Students are in a multitude of educational environments that have challenged the entire school community. A common misconception about coding is that teachers need a degree or certificate in computer science to incorporate coding into their curriculum.

Physical Education

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. If nothing else, the experience of learning online can alter a teacher’s perspective, which is a crucial first step toward improving practice.

Online Learning

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Since Chinese authorities closed schools to control the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of Education has called for students to learn at home. Over the past few weeks, educators, students and parents have taken to social media to share their experiences with this abrupt move to online learning.

Art

eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2016

“Just do it” may be an effective slogan for a sporting shoe company, but it is not an effective change management technique to move to blended learning. The move to blended learning has been labelled as “disruptive” by many, such as Clayton Christensen in his book “ Disrupting Class.”

Blended Learning

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. Blum: I've been teaching over 30 years, so I've had a lot of time to evolve. And I was very parsimonious in giving good grades.

Exams

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today’s workers must continuously learn and evolve throughout their careers, making the need for upskilling and reskilling more vital. Edtech companies can position themselves to successfully provide breakthrough education solutions as people of all ages and skill levels take charge of their own lifelong learning.

Secondary Education

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2018

Additionally, I teach an online course called “Introduction to Libraries and the Information Age” at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Ill. Here are a few practical examples of how I help teachers integrate technology to positively impact student learning. Attend department meetings to inform and learn. Keep the tech simple.

Physical Education

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Program leaders, sponsors, learners and their families, staff, community partners, and funders are all critical to the success of these learner-centered education models. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. education system. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID?

Distance Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2021

Physical Education St. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com. Resources for St. Pat’s Day from Education.com by grade and subject.

Physical Education

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Learning can happen anytime, anywhere. Geographic and socio-economic factors no longer have to be barriers to learning.

Disabilities

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2016

What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? The members believe that social and emotional learning (SEL) in its current state doesn’t engender real feelings in students because it isn’t immersive.

Learning

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Through their work, Murphy and his team discovered that online learning solved many of their PD challenges, and allowed them to quickly build capacity for remote learning. So, they searched for providers and ultimately chose OTIS for Educators , a state-approved online professional development platform aligned to ISTE standards.

Learning

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The availability of this funding, along with the complex trauma issues brought on by the pandemic–including social isolation, depression and generalized anxiety–have prompted educators to increase their focus on the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) to address all students’ needs.

Students

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

It’s fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits just as easily in K-12 classrooms as it does in higher education. “Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality.

Fairness

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“Family physical education” refers to physical activities families do together that promote health and fitness. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

Physical Education

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

As we started asking educators, administrators and experts about the issue as part of an investigation into how teachers inform the development of edtech products , everyone agreed: teacher voice should be part of edtech decisions. Take physical education, for instance. So what explains the disconnect?

Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2022

Physical Education St. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Pat’s slide puzzle. Puzzles and games. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com. Resources for St. Pat’s Day from Education.com by grade and subject. Tic tac toe.

Physical Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2023

Pat’s slide puzzle Puzzles and games Physical Education St. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Patrick’s Day Activities from Elementary PE Teacher.com Resources for St. Pat’s Day from Education.com by grade and subject St.

Physical Education

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 17, 2023

When preparing to teach a graduate-level curriculum and assessment in physical education & health education course, we asked ourselves, “What is the best way to teach future educators about curriculum and assessment?” You have a plan and are teaching us something; we just do not know what yet.

Curriculum

eSchool News

JULY 9, 2018

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review.

Physical Education

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 17, 2023

When preparing to teach a graduate-level curriculum and assessment in physical education & health education course, I asked myself, “What is the best way to teach future educators about curriculum and assessment?” You have a plan and are teaching us something; we just do not know what yet.

Curriculum

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

What this incident demonstrates is a kind of teaching technique that too often is underutilized or even forgotten. Having been empowered to defeat the challenge, and having fun doing it, my son was ready later to then learn more about bugs, bugmen, and aliens as we sat together at the computer looking up such things during the next few weeks.

Technology

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on the K-12 edtech predictions educators and experts had for 2021–were they right? education system. Dr. As the U.S.

Hybrid Learning

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Taken together, open access admission policies and challenges to student engagement in the community college context present a unique opportunity for utilizing student workers as learning assistants. Learning assistantships also offer a range of benefits for the near peer tutors themselves. 2021; Close et al.,

Learning

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

These findings have put a fire underneath educators and K–12 organizations to refocus efforts to teach computer science skills. “We By using personal devices and data science programs like Tableau , teachers can come up with new ways to incorporate data science to teach kids STEM skills while still having fun. .

Science

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Although it’s not the program that ed-tech advocates had hoped for, many expressed cautious optimism that a section of ESSA under Title IV (“21 st Century Schools”) could help schools use technology tools to transform teaching and learning. Title IV, Part A, of ESSA changes that—sort of.

Counselling

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

They hold those jobs for different reasons—to pay off student debt, to afford an apartment without roommates, to set themselves up to leave teaching for good, to online shop guilt-free, to afford the occasional take-out order—and with varying degrees of necessity. We all know we’re going to have to do more [than teach]. Megan Hines.

Teachers

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

Online Learning

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. Think Like a Scientist The lessons focus on chemistry and physics, two “gatekeeper” subjects that are typically seen as more difficult, Schneider says.

STEM

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher’s commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students, including those with diverse needs, led him to offer services that cater to both traditional and online learning environments, recognizing that some students require different support structures for academic success.

Education