eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

It has undeniably transformed the way educators engage students and deliver content. These maps go beyond traditional static maps, allowing students to investigate, evaluate, and engage with spatial information. Interactive maps help students develop a more comprehensive understanding of spatial relationships.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

From gamifying popular works of literature, to pitching invention ideas in “Shark Tank” productions, school districts are rethinking how to get beyond homework and traditional lectures to engage students. “I’m not in front of the class much anymore. Next page: How real-world challenges shape instruction.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Creativity in the classroom provides a more relaxed and open environment for the students to freely express their opinions and to learn faster. To make your classroom creative and innovative, you have to become a role model for the students. Demonstrate passion toward your subject and it will reach your students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

With College Decision Day approaching, students are bombarded with information–rankings, brochures, campus tours, and advice from every direction. Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. The key is knowing what to ask.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM? Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? In Harmony Public Schools in Texas, we want students to become active learners, problem solvers, and STEM advocates.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that makes sense–as systemic as some issues facing our education system are, every school, class, and student is unique. Students today are more distracted and disengaged than ever, all while they’re spending an average of 95 minutes every single day on TikTok alone. There’s an entire school of thought on this.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On top of that, almost 80 percent of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom. Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” said Dr. Jenny Nash, Head of Education Impact, U.S. for LEGO Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2016

Flipping your class by having students watch lecture videos for their homework can lead to richer discussions about the content, but only if students come to class prepared. Called Perusall , it’s a social learning platform that will “essentially make sure every student is prepared for class,” Mazur said.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

While the rigor of the Common Core will ultimately prepare our students for college and careers, implementation has its challenges. With more than 90 percent of the students in our school in Gulfport eligible for free or reduced lunch, we also have challenges in keeping them engaged and on track to meeting the new learning goals.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way. HistoryMaker VR seamlessly integrates into curriculums and includes classroom guides and recommended activities for teachers and parents to use.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. And that’s not only a problem for students trying to do research using, say, advanced statistical packages that take up a lot of computer space. “To But for some students, a new or even newish laptop is a luxury they can’t afford.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But now that so many educators and students have had direct experience with online formats, it’s a narrative that seems to be sinking in. Making Learning Active Students, in particular, seem sold on the upsides of techniques they encountered during online learning. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Students would laugh as the teachers mumbled about the annoyances of technology. Engagement and experimentation Technology demonstrably helps keep students engaged in their lessons and facilitate better learning in a digital world. times more likely to fail a class that was primarily lecture-based as opposed to interactive.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Some students struggle to see how numbers fit together, while others find it plain boring. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Here are creative strategies tailored for young students, middle schoolers, and high schoolers to make math more engaging and meaningful. The good news?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

The introduction of digital whiteboards in classrooms has altered teachers’ and students’ roles. Students have more options to actively participate in their learning, instead of absorbing information from textbooks or teacher lectures.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. EdSurge: U.S. It really was transformative.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024! What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. We can’t expect students to succeed if they don’t have the tools to do it. The data on this is clear.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2018

Districts around the country are moving away from teaching models based on lectures and textbooks—but transition isn’t always simple. Creating a competency-based or mastery-based environment requires re-thinking everything, including teaching methods, assessments, and how to best prepare students for life after school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—students are increasingly turning to homework-help websites. This problem with students turning more to the web to just copy down answers isn’t only at Purdue.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

A college probably wouldn’t hire a teaching assistant who tends to lie to students about course content or deadlines. This digital TA has gotten so good that in some cases online students can’t tell whether they’re getting answers from a human TA or from the bot. Those courses enroll between 100 and 370 students each.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. Something broke in American education these past years. You might wonder why this preference exists.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. What made the lessons work is that students were selecting what to compare, Fisher says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

A student could just walk into a campus tutoring center and get help from a tutor, on demand—for free. But in practice, that approach hasn’t always worked for students. And sometimes tutors were sitting waiting to help, but no students came in to get the benefit. Getting tutoring at Arkansas State University has long been easy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

As an educator, I’m always looking for new and innovative ways to help my students prepare for exams. And when it comes to exam prep, there’s no reason you can’t use technology to make the process more engaging for your students. Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In recent years, educators who want to provide digital content to their students choose among three instructional models: the teacher-directed instructional model, the software-directed instructional model, or a hybrid of the two. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In more traditional K-12 public schools on the other hand, there’s a long history of the way teachers teach and the way students learn—stretching back to the 19 th century—that can make innovation difficult. If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.) What other experiences can students have?

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The paper describes an experiment in which college students, some male and some female, each watched a short online slide presentation narrated by a computer-generated voice. One hypothesis is that students will respond better to an upbeat personality than a downbeat one, which falls into what Mayer calls the “positivity principle.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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