eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Plus, students can use them to submit work digitally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

For Christopher Faidley, a middle school computer science teacher who once taught advanced technology to Bir, it’s a place to send inquisitive parents. “I Bir says the site has about 10,000 users. And teachers say they are finding it useful.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. The period couldn’t end fast enough. I was tense and ready to throw in the towel.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. And even our fourth grade students have worked through a variety of design challenges, building boats that can stay afloat with increasing loads and using magnets to power cars.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. One benefit of CoCo is its mild learning curve, says Tiffany Zides, a digital literacy and computer science teacher at Clarke Middle School in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta. A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

“It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” Tools used throughout Morris School District So, How Well Is It All Working? As teachers across MSD have embraced blended learning, student outcomes have been promising, particularly at the elementary school level. Meanwhile, In High School and Middle School.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. Many wonder whether it will prove too expensive, widening the gap between schools that can and cannot afford it, but advocates say it doesn’t have to be costly.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Even still, “a lot of schools still think they can’t do project-based learning because they don’t have time,” Larmer says. Many schools are still wedded to the test scores, drill and kill.” Cator cites Carroll Magnet Middle School in North Carolina as a school that has embraced the challenge-based ethos.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Desks lined up, students facing forward, teacher up at the front giving a lecture. In early October, EdSurge hosted the Austin Tech for Schools Summit in Texas, and while there, heard a bit about what administrators and entrepreneurs are doing to actively create the “modern classroom.” What gives? Angela Matthews: Okay.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. The takeaway?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

As online resources develop and create more curricula, teachers will transform classroom dynamics by devoting less time to lecturing and spending more time enriching and mentoring. Rigorous, standards-aligned content is uploaded daily to educational websites, apps, and test banks. About the Author.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Some teachers who would ask you to go to theirs made the class tedious, because you had to sit there for a hour and a half while you listen to this lecture when you've already got the concepts. Amanda Regan: Virtual High School called it “asynchronous,” so there's no set time where you have to sit in on a lecture or anything like that.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback." But we were also expected to participate within this online environment that was created through our school. Reed: This is a followup to Patrick.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And then that was followed by putting me in a lecture center because my class got so big. And I think one of the problems is that the testing is really forcing everybody to be very directive. In fact, the classroom is completely directed by the test. And it could be offered at the middle school level.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. An option several school districts I converse with are trying is called “mastery-based learning” — MBL. If your school wants to move away from grading. Educational applications.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

We're located in a building in the middle of campus with two other cultural centers, La Casa Latina and PAACH. In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. And we would think back to when the pandemic hit and many institutions suddenly became test optional. DP: Mm-hmm.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. At the most basic level, mastery means knowing how to do something.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Students and parents had leeway to take classes in other subjects from their school or edtech providers. Changes have been coming swiftly: On March 31, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (a regional branch of MOE), announced that elementary and middle schools would start a new curriculum online on April 13.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2016

a quiz to test knowledge. It is well-designed, full of facts, with excellent graphics that convey visually the lecture-type presentation. It is well-suited to Middle School civics classes. Once students are familiar with the Supreme Court, test their new knowledge with the games. The site includes: a summary.

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