eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Participating students have made impressive gains, averaging more than 2.5 Dayspring Academy announced results from its ongoing partnership with Ignite Reading to deliver online, one-to-one literacy tutoring for K through 1st graders.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

Computer science has the potential to level this playing field and prepare students for the future. We use Computer science to visualize and analyze data, design, and develop complex, yet intuitive, visual interfaces for digital tools. It remains a subject that only half of high schools teach and just 5 percent of students study.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2023

Computer science has the potential to level this playing field and prepare students for the future. We use Computer science to visualize and analyze data, design, and develop complex, yet intuitive, visual interfaces for digital tools. It remains a subject that only half of high schools teach and just 5 percent of students study.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

More often than not, these are the tools that have prioritized learning science in their product design, to guide product vision and focus. Aligning your Development Team Aligning your team around key educational outcomes is the first step towards integrating learning science into the product development process.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The human subjects, meanwhile, were told that a chatbot would be doing the online interview rather than a person, and they were identified to participate using a system called Prolific, which is commonly used by researchers to find survey participants. And the reason is that they feel like the AI is a non-judgmental entity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. It is brain science. Ohio is dedicating millions to a curriculum overhaul.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Starting this fall, Alabama high school students can choose to take these classes–or any other state-approved career and technical education courses–in place of upper level math and science, such as Algebra 2 or chemistry. The state is now calling that track the Option A diploma. I wouldnt have the credits, Giles realized.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. McLaren was preparing to replicate the study in schools in the fall with a different math game. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In the latest phase of this collaboration, a new edition of the award-winning Mystery Science service built especially for Texas educators is helping CCISD teachers in K-5 classrooms districtwide engage students more deeply in science instruction. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. But we need the numbers so we can show it concretely.” “But we need the numbers so we can show it concretely.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

A study published in the journal AERA Open found that students earn better marks in college STEM courses when those classrooms have higher percentages of students who are underrepresented racial minorities or the first in their families to participate in higher education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Yet even broadened participation in college computer science courses may not shift the tech workforce and block bias from seeping into tech tools if students aren’t taught that diversity and ethics are essential to their field of study and future careers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A new study aims to make sense of these phenomena and draw fresh conclusions about what it really means when kids spend hours looking at cell phones, computers or televisions. Such a large shift in family behavior did not come because millions of parents suddenly “changed their minds about the dangers of screen time,” the study says.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

While leading a training in Alaska this weekend, a participant mentioned The Smithsonian Tween (& Teen) Tribune. Teachers can search by topic–animals, art, book reviews, education, science, sports, technology, world news– or they can search by Lexile levels. Just in time for summer reading!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. For example, you could find a selection of study material at Studocu that you can utilize.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Cultivating an early interest in STEM There is a stigma surrounding math and science that typically begins in elementary and middle schools, perpetuating the idea that math and science is ‘scary,’ too hard or challenging, or a topic meant for boys. The number of U.S. This was the case for myself. Inadequate or unavailable resources.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve written Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology to support English, history/social studies, and science teachers as they shift to the new Standards using technology. Creating multimedia notebooks for science. Engaging in KQED’s Do Now global Twitter conversations for prewriting.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2025

In one study , 92.6 percent of participants identified hands-on lab work as the key factor inspiring them to pursue STEM degrees and careers. These tools bring science to life, allowing them to collect, graph, and analyze real-world data with precision while making a measurable impact in their community.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Brain science research is increasingly bolstering the idea that math instruction rooted in culturally relevant problem-solving helps students draw from their lived experiences and activates distinct areas of the brain, producing durable and deep learning. This science suggests that all teachers can make use of these approaches.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

The Concord Consortium collaborates with VHS Learning to provide innovative science and sustainable engineering education, especially to underserved students. Through this partnership VHS Learning created an online summer course on Solar Energy Design and offered students the opportunity to participate in a Solar Energy Design challenge.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2023

When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative. But for very good reasons, there’s still a limit to the kind of hands-on science coursework that colleges can, ahem , deliver remotely. ASU couldn’t test this theory by delivering chemicals to students who study online. No one has done it before.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Science Foundation has pushed for broadening participation in STEM fields and increasing diversity for populations that have previously been excluded from STEM-related opportunities. This press release originally appeared online.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What does navigating the New York City subway have to do with teaching computer science? Like coding, analog maps of the subway can be used to teach computational thinking, making the subway system a perfect conduit to teaching computer science ideas without the use of, well, computers. More than most teachers might at first suspect.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

To make these decisions, we need information and a way to distinguish credible sources from the rest—and that starts with a solid understanding of basic science. Too often, though, this understanding we’re using to make decisions is obtained solely from our experiences in school science settings.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., Ive used Gimkit for math and science review. During a social studies unit on the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. This was particularly true for educators in specialized subject areas, such as visual & performing arts and computer science & technology. 5: Linking information and student participation (tie).

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

“Would You Rather” Options for Transfer and Application Below are examples of “would you rather” options designed to remove barriers and help students transfer and apply their learning more effectively.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Each participant sat down at a desk while attendants helped them put on a heavy VR headset and strap a plastic sensor on each hand. The question put to the participants is, what’s wrong with the poor alien creature? Participants fly the pods with the joystick, but are directed to follow a set path marked by floating circles.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2024

Meanwhile, a 2020 study found a significant connection between average yearly income and average reading levels. According to the study, the average income of adults who read at the equivalent of a sixth grade level is $63,000. points and 1.5 points, respectively.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Unveiled at the STEM Innovation Forum, The Girls’ Index: Girls & STEM Impact Report , a groundbreaking study from Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX) involving 17,502 girls in grades 5-12 across the United States, sheds light on evolving perceptions, interests, and challenges girls face in pursuing STEM education and careers.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., Course Context I teach a required, writing-intensive course for students in their junior year of their undergraduate studies. Stalnaker, J.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2018

Ninety percent of parents want their child to study computer science, but only 40 percent of schools teach computer programming, according to Code.org.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

ChatGPT In 2024, my district was fortunate to participate in a fabulous professional development opportunity lead by Jason Neiffer of the Montana Digital Academy ( MTDA ). It can also act as a study companion, generating practice questions, summarizing key points from e-textbooks and webpages, and much more. Plus, students LOVE AR/VR!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Offered by Lexia ,a Cambium Learning Group brand , and grounded in the science of reading, both professional learning programs empower educators with the knowledge and skills they need to strengthen students literacy skills. Akbar also praised the rubrics and assessments in the courses of study. Strength of reading is so important.

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