Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Textbook format and cost mattered. But it takes intentionality.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 139

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Students explore big ideas through play, questions, and reflection. They dont just memorize factsthey weigh them, question them, and apply them. Every student has their own MacBook or iPad.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. They envisioned a school where children who didnt fit the standard mold could still succeed, not just academically but socially and emotionally.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked — and which didn’t. Explore the dangers of stress in the classroom and in an educator’s personal life, and understand how this stress affects students.

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Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 96

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Researchers were surprised to learn, Gillis says, that the most-used sources for historical information are not textbooks but online sites run by museums and the federal government, especially the Smithsonian, Library of Congress and National Archives. Textbooks clearly are diminishing in influence, the AHA report states.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 178

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In that light, the obvious question is, “Why blend?” Parents remember bells ringing, textbooks, and the teacher as ultimate authority. There’s a history that must be valued as much as it is questioned. Change that would allow for blended learning in public schools requires a major culture shift.

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Blended Learning Learning History Textbooks 247

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Brubaker : Back in college, I remember having to pay for those textbooks that were $200-300, and now there are free digital textbooks that are open source. Teachers would ask us questions we don’t know how to answer. Soumakian: Are you working with open educational resources? What are some of the challenges there?

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Internet Textbooks Confidentiality Discussions 331

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Among contemporary education critics, the textbook is a classic and perennial foil—perhaps because its very construction is essentially a compromise between experts and politicians, groups with sometimes competing agendas. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history.

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Textbooks History Teachers Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Textbooks play a central role in discussions around higher ed affordability , and publishers have long been cast as the villain, pulling in high profits as textbook prices rise. These days some publishers are trying a new sales model they say will save students money: textbook subscription services. higher education product.

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Textbooks Accessibility Plagiarism Assignments 212

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

These 10 questions can help prospective students make an informed decision and choose a college where they will thrive academically, socially, and financially. College costs go beyond tuition–housing, meal plans, textbooks, and personal expenses add up. The key is knowing what to ask.

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Questions Students Study Textbooks 272

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2024

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. Searching for Savings The business of textbooks elicits strong opinions from nearly everyone in higher education.

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Textbooks Accessibility Assignments Participation 191

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Student complaints about the digital textbook and courseware bundles now assigned in many college classes have escalated into a new batch of legal challenges. And students are used to being able to resell their print textbooks after a semester is over, but digital codes can’t be shared or resold.

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Textbooks Accessibility Assignments Instructors 206

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she González and Framingham State University, where she is interim director of Whittemore Library, are part of a consortium in Massachusetts looking to answer different questions. González says.

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Textbooks Culture Students Participation 187

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2020

The college textbook publishing industry is trying to move in a similar direction. And it’s recruiting colleges to help by offering them a new kind of deal: Order digital course materials in bulk at a discounted rate, then pass the savings on to students, who are automatically billed for subscriptions to online versions of their textbooks.

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Textbooks Assignments English Internet 171

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

It is essential to build in time for them to discuss information and ask questions. Teachers can invite students to participate in a small group discussion about a chapter they read in a text or the textbook, debrief about a flipped video lesson, or unpack complex issues or topics related to your subject area. TeachingVideoConf.

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Learning Students Textbooks Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

” The answer to this second question puts the onus on students to do the work. When teachers ask students to generate review questions for a Quizizz game, it requires that they review the content you’ve covered to identify important information, promotes critical thinking, and encourages conversation and collaboration.

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Exams Students Textbooks Critical Thinking 483

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. The textbook publisher had announced the sale back in February. Fragmented and Competitive The textbook world is much more fragmented and competitive than it was in the mid 2000s, according to experts.

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Textbooks Knowledge Questions Learning Tools 167

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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Textbooks Culture Curriculum Feedback 165

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Their approach contrasts with classic reading comprehension questions, which students typically respond to after completing a reading assignment. It is also an opportunity to identify any areas of confusion or questions that still exist.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. That’s the way Cengage created its subscription product, says Hansen.

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Textbooks Assignments Accessibility Questions 165

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’” Estimated revenue for the U.S.

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Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 153

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Traditional textbooks or workbooks provide limited means of interacting with information. For example, students who are unable to type can use voice-to-text tools to compose responses to questions or complete written assignments inside of Google Documents. Physical Action. Expression and Communication.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Textbooks 546

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When colleges sign deals with publishers to sell digital textbooks and homework systems directly to students, they’re required by federal regulations to offer those materials at discounted prices. Textbook publishers, meanwhile, reject that argument. “We That’s the conclusion of a new report from U.S.

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Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 166

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A traditional science textbook doesn’t always provide educators the freedom to delve into topics that students bring up from their own lives or questions they have about the world around them. Having used OpenSciEd for five years now, I’m confident that I’ll never go back to teaching with a traditional textbook.

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Curriculum Textbooks Middle School Middle School 312

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

While there are still some privacy issues to address, assistive devices can update information published in outdated textbooks and give students a space to dive deeper into their own learning by asking questions and following up on their own curiosities. Growth of integrated learning. Expansion of blended learning.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Education History 279

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

In my quest to engage my students in social studies, I’ve found that, after a few rounds of trial and error, the social studies textbooks belong on the shelf. You simply upload a slideshow or create one from scratch, then add questions, video clips, or polls to keep students engaged. Preparing a Quizizz lesson is super easy!

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Social Studies Study History English 322

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2017

Evergreen Public Schools is trying to answer a bold question: Can technology help ensure learning experiences are consistent across all of its schools, and at the same time promote personalized learning? The district’s work in technology didn’t start with this question. Often textbooks have assessments as well to help measure learning.

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Curriculum Textbooks Questions Communication 212

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 269

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Patent and Trademark Office granted two patents last year for creating, managing and tracking digital credentials, it raised new questions and concerns among a community of innovators who are trying to create an open platform for rethinking credentials. When the U.S. These things have existed for a really long time,” she adds.

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Questions Textbooks Languages Language 161

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

test and quiz questions) (34 percent), animations (e.g., textbook readings) (30 percent) and visuals (e.g., images included in textbooks and digital content) (29 percent). videos integrated into digital content) (30 percent), narrative content (e.g.,

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Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 284

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Companies like Chegg have become multi-billion dollar platforms , which is mainly attributable to students seeking on-demand access to textbook and exam answers. This begs a two-fold question: why do students cheat in the first place, and why is it so easy to cheat?

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Exams Essay Education Academic Integrity 282

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. Simply type the question and options you want to appear on the Mentimeter slide and project it. Summarize the main ideas from a chapter in a textbook. Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson.

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Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2020

This easy-to-use feature gives educators a simple way to create and upload asynchronous lesson videos and provide answers to anonymous student questions, promoting engagement and equitable access to online instruction. Like the rest of Numerade’s resources, all features within Office Hours are entirely free for users.

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Distance Learning Teachers Textbooks Questions 235

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Contribution: Does the student contribute relevant ideas, questions, or solutions? Quick checks like quizzes, exit tickets, and questioning techniques provide valuable insights into students’ understanding. What two questions do they have? Given the prompt [insert prompt], does my response address the question entirely?

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Invite questions to drive the next steps in learning. Authentic,hands-on experiments, like this one, will often generate questions from students. And, when students realize their questions are taken seriously and that they are invited to create testable questions, they will become more engaged in the learning process.

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STEM Learning Science Students 297