eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2025

The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye. First, ensure you are using reliable detector technology that is backed by research. You can’t place a finger on exactly what, but it doesn’t sound like your student.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

parents believe AI is essential to their childrens education, but most arent even sure whether the technology is being used in their childs classroom. Our team spent years refining this complex and sensitive technology, and Id like to share the key lessons weve learned along the way with other founders.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

Because this type of vision loss affects tasks that require detailed focus, such as reading, writing, and recognizing faces, students with central vision impairment often face unique challenges that can affect their overall school experience. The student can magnify the image, scan and study it, and take what they need from it.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Reading before bed? But not everybody feels this way about reading. My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read.

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k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

This phenomenon creates a significant barrier for students pursuing degrees in over 50 STEM-related disciplines, thereby restricting access to critical career pathways in science, medicine, and technology. This challenge mirrors what would occur if students were expected to read novels without first mastering the alphabet.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

“Social Media Swap” — A two-week challenge where students log their social media time for week one, then in week two replace those exact time blocks with alternative activities they pre-select (reading, exercise, creative projects, face-to-face socializing). Students document changes in their own technology use throughout the project period.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

I recently read 10 to 25 , a new book by David Yeager, one of the leading research psychologists in adolescent development and motivation. Studies have found that while many online learning programs can produce significant gains when used at recommended dosages, only about 5% of students actually use them as recommended.

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Motivation Learning Students Achievement 278

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

Classrooms are no longer just spaces for absorbing information; they’re becoming creative studios where students use technology to solve real-world problems. Adeel Khan Johnsrud: When it comes to AI literacy, I think about where we are now, much like the early days of media literacy when I taught K-12 library studies.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

I considered majoring in English since I loved reading, or maybe pre-med for financial stability. One time, I planned a novel study around a book my students selected, but I was forced by an administrator to trade it in for standardized test prep. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Schools Failure Ethics Textbooks 146

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Campuses invest enormous time and energy revising their gen ed programs of study to create the kinds of interconnected learning experiences that produce broadly educated degree completers. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Welcome to psychology.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. By visiting an online course, you can slot the hours you need to study when you have the time.

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Lecturing Motivation Essay High School 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use. To scaffold their analysis, I provided a couple of foundational readings on AI, alongside an article of their choosing, see Roose, 2023 and Gates, 2023 citations.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 81

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. He said that college instructors are not needed to give information to their students, at least not the foundations, definitions, etc., Saucier, Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 53

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” For example, have all response postings due on a Tuesday at noon.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 63

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” For example, have all response postings due on a Tuesday at noon.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 62

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Campuses invest enormous time and energy revising their gen ed programs of study to create the kinds of interconnected learning experiences that produce broadly educated degree completers. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Welcome to psychology.

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 89

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 3, 2025

Limit (or completely eliminate) Technology Finally, technology will likely play a big role in your classroom, but that doesn’t mean you need to introduce it on the first day. Morning Meeting If you’re brand new to morning meeting, you can read allll about how it works in upper elementary here ! Place Fred on top.

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Teaching Schools Math Activities 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

But because this was 1980, and the technologies that could be used to cheat were more advanced than the technology available to detect cheating, there was no definitive proof. Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

This initiative helps students strengthen their academic foundations, develop better study habits, and build resilience. AEF also integrates cutting-edge technology to enhance personalized learning. Technology specialists ensure educators can integrate digital tools effectively, enhancing personalized learning experiences.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

My X friends gave me great suggestions, but first: A comment on the selections : I did get more than I could list so I avoided books with hot-button subjects teachers are divided on and focused on positive and uplifting reading. Or read them all. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 92

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. Read More: These LA community college students are getting paid to go to school. Many spent their senior year on Zoom, without homecomings, proms or graduations.

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Math English Lecturing High School 86

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Image courtesy of LYLA IN THE LOOP™ / © 2023 Mighty Picnic LLC PBS works with advisers — ranging from educational researchers to psychologists — who create a framework of learning goals based on studies and topics that are age-appropriate for children. The studies showcasing the positive effects of PBS on children’s learning seem endless.

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Fairness Study Laboratory Evaluation 185

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2025

And “it wasn’t just a January blip,” Dee says, because the study showed sustained drops in attendance. That’s significant because high-profile raids likely have a larger impact on absences than quieter raids, and the region Dee studies has a high number of agricultural workers, many of whom are likely to be impacted by immigration raids.

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Schools Students Study English 86

Organized Classroom

MAY 22, 2025

It is VERY possible to have center time which has a different center for different animals, and within that center area, there are different activities for math, reading, writing, and technology. Or even science and social studies that might get pushed to the side. There are always TONS of additional suggestions.

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Social Studies Math Science Study 86

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Is it better to read the book or watch the movie? Would you rather take a class with more technology or minimal screen time? Compare this story to another you’ve read. You’ll also get three customizable covers perfect for group assignments, novel studies, and independent projects. What makes one better than the other?

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2025

Naomi Hupert, director of the Center for Children and Technology within the EDC, says the question was driven partially by the rise of podcast popularity among adults and partly by the pervasiveness of personal audio devices — think Amazon’s Alexa or Siri — that allow children to more easily access audio content. “All

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Study Questions Science Grades 122

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

Right now, many teachers are seeing a sharp drop in focus during reading and writing (thanks to cell phones) and a growing dependence on AI to think and write. Too much screen time in elementary school is delaying reading and writing skills, weakening focus, and hurting social development." We're not heading for a learning crisis.

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Reading Writing Elementary School Elementary School 84

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Illich pulls no punches and it can be painful to read him, even for someone like me who has spent is career outside the currents of modern education. School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes future promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

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Motivation Testing Failure Grades 99

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2025

1 Read Silent Spring Published in 1962, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring started many thinking about Earth’s health. Have students read the book, meet in study groups to discuss it, and then devise their own projects to address the concerns. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Activities Science Discussions Curriculum 96

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

Skip to content Analogy Booklet Read Expand Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search Toggle Menu Home / Learning Posts / Teaching Is Human Work. Once we move from an object of study to something familiar—from a being to a person—the objectivity is lost. (To Systems Aren’t Built for That.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Knowledge Languages 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

It seems an hour can be better spent reading slides and doing a practice problem than sitting through a lecture. The trend led to a prominent study by Caroline Hoxby on the large number of high-achieving students who do not apply to selective institutions despite their likely acceptance.

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Study Lecturing Education Internet 210

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2016

This is a question I get often from teachers: Technology is always an extra layer of work in my classroom. The problem was four-fold: students didn’t have the technology foundation to smoothly incorporate digital tools into projects. This provides an easy, natural, resilient, and native way to integrate technology into teaching.

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Technology Math Curriculum Evaluation 181

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. According to her, the education industry looks at “reading and writing as two separate kinds of tools.”

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 271