eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. “Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. and globally.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 154

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges for the first-round review of all nominees. The winners were presented during a virtual awards celebration hosted on the NewSky XR secure online platform on June 22. Founder of BrainPOP.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 143

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment. After a couple days of review, the eighth grade students connected individually with the fifth grade students via Google.hangout, and they used their Chromebooks.

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Peer Review Essay Disabilities Schools 166

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Now a soon-to-be released study from Vanderbilt University demonstrates the impact of rigorous, peer reviewed research into curricular tools, in this case showing that students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests.

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Game-Based Learning Peer Review Learning Gamification 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Assessing one’s own writing and providing feedback to peers both help to move students forward as writers. When they review each others' work anonymously and use tools like targeted checklists and comment stems, their reflections are more authentic, and they are more motivated to revise with purpose.”

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 134

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. After a writing fellow quickly reviews it, the score gets delivered to the student via the eCoach system.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 142

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. Not to mention the widespread suffering stemming from a virus that’s killed 100,000 Americans. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. By now, you can probably list them by heart.

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Teachers Education Blended Learning STEM 216

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Science achievement gaps present between racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the eighth grade already exist when those children are in kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.

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Achievement Science Elementary School Elementary School 190

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2021

Nor are they made aware of the peer-review process in which scientists in the field who were not involved with the research critically evaluate the study design and conclusions. These experiences in school science sometimes give students the unrealistic perspective of science as a set of facts rather than a dynamic human endeavor.

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Science Peer Review Learning Knowledge 184

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Feedback dialogue sample from eighth grader Grace, Image credit: Christine Witcher In response, we created Floop , a tool that allows teachers to give digital annotated feedback, allows students to respond immediately to the feedback and facilitates a scaffolded and anonymous peer review session.

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Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Students must make the time to practice and to peer-review each others' work. Yet his district’s largest investment in writing instruction is time—for professional development, for calibrating scoring, for providing actionable feedback.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 124

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Khan Academy offers all free online courses and is focused mostly on STEM subjects, but also includes arts & humanities as well as test prep courses. Scholarly Research: To find credible information, it’s best to use academic research libraries for published journal articles, peer reviewed articles, and the like.

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Blended Learning eLearning Learning Peer Review 79

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Peer Review: Transparency and Problem-Centered Learning , 18 (1–2), 31–36. link] Winkelmes, M. Bernacki, M., Zochowski, J. G., & Weavil, K. A teaching intervention that increases underserved college students’ success. Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

UNC Charlotte, for example, has the Active Learning Academy, which brings in speakers and offers internal education opportunities as well as a STEM Academy, which models evidenced-based practices in a fun, informative way and even pays participants a small stipend.

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Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review 52

Teaching with a Mountain View

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

When students are familiar with question stems and verbiage commonly found on tests, they are less likely to panic when faced with a tricky question. Peer Review: Pair students to review each others writing, encouraging them to spot grammar errors or suggest smoother sentence structures. The cat landed on the chair.

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Testing Multiple Choice Questions Math Writing 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

At a session about blockchain at the EDUCAUSE national conference in October, Long said there is also interest in the academic community in using blockchain technology to verify peer-reviewed research. The company claims its business will focus on problems in STEM and academia.

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Learning Participation History Peer Review 144

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

I [Hill] use a Mentimeter (Menti.com) activity which gives students a chance to view their responses with real time illustrations represented by memes/pictures, text, or audio for peer review and discussion. In Blended learning designs in STEM higher education (pp. Students can chat or use video and emojis to share ideas.

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Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116

eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2025

This evolution will make high-quality STEM education more universally accessible. This is particularly critical in STEM fields, where AI has already transformed industries and is shaping career paths, providing new learning opportunities for students.

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Ethics Writing Feedback Knowledge 350

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2019

This delay, the letter claims, allows publishers to recoup the expenses required to support peer review and publication of new findings. On Monday, a post on a blog run by the Society for Scholarly Publishing suggested that the executive order may stem from the U.S.

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Accessibility Peer Review STEM Science 139