Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

And plenty of educators are using podcasting in their teaching as well, getting students sharing conversations about ideas. What are some of the ways podcasts are now used in a teaching setting? And for that to be counted as such, people are also going to want to subject it to the rigor of different forms of peer review.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. This is especially hard for me since I teach large classes and it is challenging to connect. As I began my first night of teaching in a university setting, I asked the students to take out their textbooks for the class and turn to a particular page.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I was in my fifth year of teaching at Forest Ridge, an independent all-girls school serving students in grades 5-12 in Bellevue, Wash., This Class is Unfair The pivotal class I was teaching at the time was a physical science course, consisting of three sections of 15 to 17 eighth graders. Anonymous student. Anonymous student.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Real-World Math Problems Many of the terminated awards had something to do with teaching future elementary and middle school math teachers how to meet the needs of more than one type of student. Its worth noting, they say, that they have to apply for federal funds through nonpartisan, peer-reviewed methods.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2015

available online, that features science educator Isabella Reyes as she explores “the science of teaching science.”. The series draws from peer-reviewed research in science, cognition, and pedagogy and distills valuable findings from journal articles to promote effective classroom practices. for grades K-2).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This year marks a significant milestone in integrating advanced AI technologies into educational practices, heralding a new era of teaching and learning. Project-based assessments, peer reviews, and interactive simulations offer students opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in diverse and meaningful ways.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

for literacy saw fourth-grade reading scores rise by 10 points – even after school closures during the pandemic – due to an emphasis on explicitly teaching foundational reading skills and professional development. One example to learn from is the “ Mississippi Miracle ,” in which a state once ranked second to last in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

At Savvas, we are committed to developing the highest-quality instructional solutions that are powered by cutting-edge technology in order to personalize teaching and learning and help all students succeed.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

WHAT : The ISTE Standards provide a framework for learning, teaching and leading that is amplified by technology. Innovative offerings include the widely adopted ISTE Standards for learning, teaching and leading in the digital age–as well as the ISTE Conference & Expo –the world’s most comprehensive ed tech event.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Examples include small-group brainstorming and “Mini Socratics” (small-group Socratic Seminars), gamification methods giving students points for each component they’ve completed in an assignment, small-group peer reviews where students reflect on each other’s ideas instead of correcting errors, and more.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI. 2001, University of Vermont) is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University. Teaching of Psychology, 52 (1), 45-52.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They are also valuable teaching tools. Databases provide full-text access to a wide range of content, including books, magazines, primary sources, images, charts, and peer-reviewed articles by credible authors representing diverse perspectives.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

CoderZ is a powerful, self-paced virtual learning platform for grades 4-12 that teaches computer science integration by gamifying NGSS and CSTA-aligned curriculum. CoderZ also offers a professional development program that introduces instructors to the concepts of teaching computer science and computational thinking using an online tool.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

16 in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics , suggest that the Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) program, aimed at increasing educational opportunities for under-represented and economically disadvantaged students, also significantly reduces substance use. The findings, published Dec.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Typically, experiments like this would go through careful peer review before being published. But band and music educators at schools and colleges need this information now if they want to teach safely. So the researchers are publishing data frequently—even as they do the experiments. How does the experiment work?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Three years ago I was teaching a graduate computer science course with 20 students. When teaching many students at once, some ordinary things become near impossible. Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2021

The study has been cited in other peer-reviewed journals more than 1,200 times, according to Google Scholar, and it has been pointed to in op-eds and other popular articles as well. Miller has been looking into what learning science says about all kinds of narratives that float around technology and teaching these days.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

While peer-reviewed journals are important mechanisms to share research, she feels that scholars can also present the results of those studies in other ways to help influence practice in a more timely manner. So what do we do with the results of this research?

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. About the CODiE Awards The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A peer review team from Middle States member schools recommended VHS Learning for reaccreditation, and Middle States voted on the recommendation at its biannual meeting in Philadelphia. As part of the reaccreditation process, VHS Learning conducted a self-study before the peer review team’s evaluation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

As the school year gets underway across the nation, many schools and districts are launching new technology initiatives and programs designed to improve teaching and learning. One of the district’s top technology initiatives : Fifth and eighth grade students partnered on a peer-reviewed argument writing assigment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Perhaps education has been missing a key ingredient when it comes to teaching students to detect faulty reasoning: practice. An article about the research is currently a pre-print, which means it has not yet been peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal. The data is publicly available online.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement. Educators who do not incorporate technology into their teaching practices are missing an opportunity to enhance student learning experiences. or Why should I care? I will never use this.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Plenty of peer-reviewed research shows that classroom “clickers” improve student learning when it comes to delivering facts. When she showed the finding to the professor teaching the physics course, Grant V. O’Rielly, she says he “he nearly fell over” and immediately changed how he uses the teaching tool.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes? But at the same time, he’s optimistic about LibreText’s nontraditional, crowd-sourced review structure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

At school you teach and support students. That study could be used to help administrators overhaul their teachers’ schedules, the task force writes, and free them up from non-teaching tasks that eat away at time that could be spent collaborating with peers, reviewing their students’ learning data and generally making their lessons better. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Some educators may feel overwhelmed by adding projects to their already busy curriculum, but Caldwell and Fielding offer two strategies that can greatly reduce stress and time: use rubrics for assessment and incorporate peer reviews.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

They serve as a bridge between theory and practice, promote active learning and the development of practical skills that improve their teaching methods. This teaching approach can help them analyze and find realistic solutions to complex problems. The NSTA also has nearly a thousand peer-reviewed case studies on various science topics.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today, a growing number of professors have embraced Wikipedia as a teaching tool. There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. He even wrote a book about the topic, called “ Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia.”

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Peer Review Textbooks Education Writing 147

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Lu, who is a postdoctoral research and teaching fellow at the University of British Columbia, is part of a team building an “AI Scientist” with the ambitious goal of creating an AI-powered system that can autonomously do every step of the scientific method. “The But his latest project takes the idea to an extreme.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Andrea Fuentes, Director of Online Learning, Doral College Cultivating an engaging environment can be a challenge when teaching online. You can pose a question for a future column here. three specific ways they could apply the learning in their lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Their innovations stand to improve the teaching and learning experience for teachers and students here in the U.S. 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. and globally.

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Educational Technologies Technology Peer Review Education 152

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

What This Looks Like in Real Classrooms Lets talk about some real-life teacher moments where self-checking work makes a differencenot just in theory, but in the day-to-day reality of teaching. Exit Tickets with Peer Checks Your students complete a quick grammar review before heading out for specials. The self-checking part?

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