eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The district turned to IXL because of its ability to align perfectly to Austin ISD’s textbooks and curriculum, plus IXL’s broad range of skills that individualize instruction and empower every student. With more than 75 billion questions asked and answered around the world, IXL is helping schools successfully boost student achievement.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

It can also act as a study companion, generating practice questions, summarizing key points from e-textbooks and webpages, and much more. It can assist with homework by providing explanations and step-by-step solutions to problems and help students understand difficult concepts.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social studies teacher Ben McCray had a similar experience: “I've learned to have things available by doing a recording, a screencast, something that is captured for later.” McCray says, “I have information about the Punic Wars and Hannibal that’s not available in the textbook. It's just something that I've studied a lot.”

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. This isn’t unusual: Students often get weird concepts of math, developing logical-seeming routes for answering questions, Barclay says. Elementary math textbooks claim to be aligned with Common Core standards, but they’re sometimes not, Copur-Gencturk says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The US History Interactive and World History Interactive programs create an active, inquiry-based learning environment that engages students by having them question, investigate, and explore history from multiple viewpoints.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. Civics Education Is at a Crossroads This knowledge gap is due in large part to the sidelining of K-12 social studies since the early 2000s, with the implementation of No Child Left Behind. They were roleplaying. Let me set the scene for you.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close. For example, from 9 a.m.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Kids Discover Online offers access to over 1,000 K-8 science and social studies resources on any device and at three different reading levels. In 2014 we set out on a mission to answer one question: ‘What does the modern classroom look like?’” said Ted Levine, the president and CEO of Kids Discover. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

In November, the Virginia Board of Education tossed out its plan to revise the state’s standards of learning for history and social studies. A number of states are fiercely battling over curriculum standards, and not just in history and social studies. The fusion of politics and education is hardly unusual.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Those applications are fine, but I talk a lot about h ow to integrate technology in cool ways for engagement purposes , like during social studies or math lessons or science. Typically, they read about the Silk Road in a textbook, take a quiz in September, and then are tested on that material in May. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Actively Learn is a freemium online education platform that allows students to read a book (or some other document), make comments, answer questions posed by the teacher, and even collaborate with others. Actively Learn is a high-functioning ereader for ELA, social studies, and science students in grades 2-12.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Rich primary sources—not just textbook overviews—are crucial to this deep learning. Pedagogy matters as well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can also create digital overlays on printed textbooks, allowing students to access additional content, such as videos or animations, with their mobile devices. This is followed by an evaluation section, which is a self-assessment with questions aligned directly with what students will see on standardized tests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2018

Slow Growth Amazon would not answer questions about how fast the service is growing. When EdSurge checked the collection in July, the site listed about 3,600 materials for Social Studies, and now shows about the same. Amazon officials say no one has reported any issues since the sharing feature was reinstated.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, news literacy is not universally taught, largely because of systemic obstacles: It is not commonly part of curriculum standards, districts tend to focus on standardized testing and STEM, and lessons may be greatly limited or built around a textbook. But these challenges are surmountable. Regardless of state borders, U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. I’ve started to reframe the question to “what can happen if it does work?”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

IXL was also chosen because its skills align perfectly to Maryland’s state standards , the district’s Illustrative Mathematics textbooks and the NWEA MAP Growth assessment. With more than 150 billion questions asked and answered around the world, IXL is helping schools and parents successfully boost student achievement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

A teacher may have students tweet answers back to a specific question or summarize a topic using the 280 character limit. Matt Miller, the Ditch That Textbook founder, was instrumental in creating various templates for the classroom. This activity requires the students to be creative in using words and characters such as emojis. .

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

IXL’s skills are aligned to content in 21 popular textbooks, making lesson planning easier. IXL ELA challenges and supports students at the perfect level with a wide variety of interactive questions, fun visuals and engaging content. About IXL Learning Currently used by 12 million students and in all of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. The question we pondered was how to preserve these gains as teachers modified BHP courses, and specific lessons evolved over time. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Additionally, IXL skills match popular textbooks and state Assessment Anchors, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

In math, 14 percent of adoptions are OER, compared to 4 percent for English/language arts, 2 percent for science and 1 percent for history and social studies. The trend raises a lot of questions, Seaman says, such as whether OER can follow a similar path in other disciplines, or whether math is somewhat unique.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. SurveyEdSurge developed a 33-question survey to understand investors’ perceptions of edtech funding trends in the U.S. We do not track grants.)SurveyEdSurge

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s an age-old question pinched straight from the ‘90s: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Perhaps the question isn’t where she is so much as where she can help the most. That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

At times 2017 has seemed like a new era for reporting, where newsrooms have had to question and reevaluate their purpose for existing. So your question about where do educators begin? I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. And the question is: Is that news credible?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I have a list of eight research sites that walk the line between stodgy (textbooks) and out-there (Twitter and Facebook), designed by their developers with an eye toward enticing students in and then keeping their interest. It’s notable that most are free, but include advertising. Info Please.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “They tend to be overlooked. at that time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Today, in a world where communities real and imagined are digitally connected via platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr, we can reframe that question in terms of those common nodes (or friends) in those characters’ social networks. Wodehouse ’s Blandings Castle and Jeeves series.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

“Political socialization, a lot of that happens online,” says Ioana Literat, professor of communication, media and learning technologies design at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “We We like to think that it happens in school in civics class, or the social studies classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. Painting approaches to history in stark black and white can shut down debate and keep social studies teachers from achieving what 94 percent of them report is the most important part of their job: preparing students for meaningful civic engagement.

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