eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

Key points: Students are motivated by academic excellence, personal growth, and development Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program For more news on learning trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. Teaching as I Was Taught During my first year of teaching, I taught a class of 27 second graders and the majority of ideas I implemented in my classroom came from my own experiences as a student. This year, I wanted to add a little more flair.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 105

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Engagement : This involves identifying what motivates and excites students about learning. Online courses can offer content in audio, text, and video formats, each with interactive elements like quizzes, virtual labs, and social annotation to enhance engagement and provide multiple ways for students to absorb the material.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. Flexibility: Learning and teaching with technology provides flexibility since it can take place anywhere.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I was so excited to begin my career teaching kindergarten students who were deaf or hard of hearing. Throughout my 26 years of teaching, I’ve heard similar accounts from other first-year teachers anxious to get their footing in their new roles, but more than anything, they wanted to connect with their students and students’ families.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the academic school year ends, many teachers come to the unforeseen conclusion that some students lack the motivation to turn in assignments on-time. Grading papers is still a daunting teaching duty. It is not an easy task. But it doesn’t have to be.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

That said, our students do need to learn some fundamental skills that AI cannot teach them. You can use it to generate quizzes and students can use it to answer the quizzes, so why do we even matter as educators? AI won’t motivate a student to learn. We have to strike a balance when it comes to using AI for learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. I often teach students who react with surprise when they do well in my class. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy? Enter research.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Education technology is a classroom must-have Technology enables access to important resources Stay up to date on the latest in education technology The use of education technology in the classroom has revolutionized the way teaching and learning occur, offering new opportunities to enhance educational experiences.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Educators today are embracing a diverse range of technological resources to enhance their teaching methods, from interactive whiteboards and educational apps to virtual platforms and collaborative tools. What technology or teaching tools do you use to enhance your teaching? What are technology tools for teaching and learning?

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

And the technology may help address an age-old challenge in any classroom: motivation. Several startups are experimenting with encouraging users to watch tutorials or take quizzes in exchange for earning cryptocurrency. Finally, as learn-to-earn projects and digital wallets mature, learner-centered design will become more crucial.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 16, 2025

Students work through interactive spelling exercises, games, and quizzes that are designed not just for repetition, but for true understanding and mastery. A Motivational and Game-Based Approach Students are far more likely to engage with learning when its enjoyable, and Spelling Force recognises this through its game-based design.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

AI-powered quiz builders are revolutionizing modern classrooms, transforming traditional teaching methods into captivating, gamified learning adventures. A classroom where healthy competition motivates students to study and collaborate. A classroom where instant feedback and adaptive difficulty foster rapid growth and retention.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

How can you use technology to enhance teaching and learning? Integrating technology into K-12 teaching and learning can revolutionize education–and, in fact, has–by providing innovative resources and technology tools for teaching and learning that engage students, foster collaboration, and personalize instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2024

Technology is constantly advancing, and educators are regularly presented with new opportunities to not only enhance their teaching strategies but also provide a more engaging and effective learning experience. You can design and deliver courses that fit your schedule and teaching style. It opens up more opportunities for more people.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . This can be especially helpful if you have a large class size or if you teach remotely, as it allows students to watch the material again and take notes on key points whenever they need to.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Just as digital tools provide educators with innovative and flexible ways to reinforce learning in core academic subjects, they can be used to more effectively teach the social-emotional and life skills that students need to thrive in the classroom and beyond. Over time, this data may show trends in moods, behaviors, and performance.

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Communication Quizzes Feedback Language 277

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2023

When you teach typing, the goal isn’t speed and accuracy. The myth is that students will teach themselves when they need it. They will teach themselves, but it won’t necessarily be in time for their needs. Those are the ones who are intrinsically motivated to learn and nothing gets in their way. for example.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And in recent years more of the findings are making their way onto campus, in the form of new teaching practices. That has Matthew Rascoff, associate vice provost for digital education and innovation at Duke University, excited about the possibility to make wide-scale improvements in how colleges teach. What do students think of that?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Interestingly, before this point, Jeslyn and her peers had always needed my guidance on these kinds of projects; all of a sudden, they were working bell-to-bell, motivated by their passion for the issue. Personally, I believe that teaching SEL as a stand-alone is poor pedagogy. SEL programs are not reported either.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. The challenge with teaching these skills, however, is time. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

AI tools can create content quickly, such as quizzes and worksheets and complete administrative tasks, such as grading assignments and generating progress reports , freeing up more time for instructional activities. What is ChatGPT? See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Then we add questions and little quizzes afterwards. I’ve been lucky to have investors who constantly keep me motivated through the ups and downs, give me new ideas, look at new market opportunities and figure out how to grow the business in general. What other resources do clients get outside of the coaching sessions?

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Coaching Teaching Schools Quizzes 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

And by collaborating on research with colleagues through WiKIT, an international research organization focused on edtech evidence, I’ve reviewed multiple tools using generative AI to teach children to read. Based on academic research about reading motivation, we can anticipate some challenges.

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Coaching Reading Motivation Feedback 206

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

No doubt, these are excellent sources, but if students aren’t motivated by them, they won’t get a lot out of them. They hear original phrasing, emphasis, and often reactions to dramatic events that — without recordings — would be simply words on paper to most of them, devoid of passion, emotion, and motivation.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

They’re often ineffective as a teaching tool, they’re easy for students to cheat, and they can exacerbate test anxiety. Yet more professors seem to be turning to the format these days, as teaching loads and class sizes grow, since multiple-choice quizzes and tests can be easily graded by machines.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In recent years, K-12 tech innovation news has made it clear that educational technology has become an integral part of classrooms, influencing teaching methodologies, student interactions, and the overall educational landscape. What is the impact of educational technology in teaching and learning?

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Educators can refine instruction to keep students motivated with the classroom engagement tool, Quiz. The total of 400 existing quizzes makes it quick and easy to customize, or educators can create quizzes from scratch or use as-is for turnkey assignments.

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Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 177

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2024

It’s not just about ditching blackboards for tablets – education today is undergoing a paradigm shift in teaching methodologies. Gamification Dry subject matter coupled with decreasing attention spans means traditional teaching approaches are becoming less effective.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Despite those first days of insecurity, we decided to teach ourselves to lean in to technology rather than distance ourselves from it. Language AI modeling tools can assist learners with pronunciation, grammar and translation, responding receptively in real time through simulated chats and quizzing techniques.

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Beyond the Worksheet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

One of the strategies Ive adopted in my classroom is allowing students to use their notes during quizzes. In this post, Ill explore the pros and cons of allowing notes on quizzes and why I stand by my decision to implement this practice. The Pros of Allowing Notes on Quizzes: 1. The Cons of Allowing Notes on Quizzes: 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

I’d love to hear your suggestions in the comments about how you do this in your classes: Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way. Let me break this down for you.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

When you teach typing, the goal isn’t speed and accuracy. take online quizzes (like PARCC, SB). The myth is that students will teach themselves when they need it. They will teach themselves, but it won’t necessarily be in time for their needs. Keyboarding Quizzes. comment on Discussion Boards and blogs.

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