Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

Professors assign textbooks (or other materials) that they view as required to succeed in their courses, but some students say they go in with a wait-and-see attitude: They delay a week or two into the semester, and then obtain only the materials that seem truly necessary to them. “I I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It’s designed for learners who are interested in hands-on experiences, problem-solving, and discovery over non-traditional methods like reading textbooks and listening to lectures from a professor. There are also many potential applications of immersive learning techniques in schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Newsela , founded in 2013, is best known for its leveled reading tool that lets students read content licensed from publishing partners at different Lexile levels. It’s becoming trendy to beat up on textbook publishers, and Newsela is hardly alone. The company has been on a hiring spree. That traction is paying off.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

textbook publisher if the deal is approved, with a combined valuation estimated at $5 billion. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. billion in revenue in 2018, and will boast a library of 44,000 textbook titles, according to the Journal.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Here, students can read, get ideas for new books, comment on books, and earn badges and points to reflect their love of reading. Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Books can be read online or on most mobile devices.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. Yes, my eyes technically scanned the words, but I wasn’t thinking about what I was reading.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

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. 2 Facilitate a Small Group Discussion.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2022

The programs, supported by General Motors (GM) and Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, are focused on leveraging AI to make complex visuals, graphs, and equations in science and math educational materials accessible to people with dyslexia, vision loss, and other reading barriers.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As anyone who reads this blog regularly will already know, I don’t think teachers should invest hours creating review activities that students are perfectly capable of generating. chapter in the textbook, unit of study, collection of vocabulary words). Instead of asking, “How can I help students to review for the exam?

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

As colleges seek to provide alternatives to print textbooks, one digital book provider, BibliU, has launched about 100 pilots globally since the pandemic started, says CEO David Sherwood. The company’s platform guards against piracy and sharing of content, though the app supports offline reading, Sherwood says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. First, OpenStax came for textbooks. OpenStax textbooks are display in a room named for the author of one the nonprofit's economics books. /

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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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. That time is now.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most people assume the move to online courses means students are logging on to the learning management system to take reading quizzes tied to their assigned textbook chapters and posting in the discussion board in line with weekly modules as their schedules allow. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

textbook readings) (30 percent) and visuals (e.g., images included in textbooks and digital content) (29 percent). Specific content generation needs: K-12 teachers are more likely to adopt GenAI materials that can create and build the following types of content: assessments (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2023

Because I know most of you online only, I thought I’d share my favorite online libraries with you (click here for updates to the list): For Children Aesop for Children –collection of fables Actively Learn –add PDFs of your choice to a library that can be annotated, read, and shared.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

When I was coaching a second-grade teacher, we used FlipGrid to capture a sample of each student reading to assess their fluency. The students selected a passage, read it three times on their own, partnered up and took turns reading with their partner, then recorded themselves reading the passage on FlipGrid.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Click here to read the full app review. Effectively, any time you’d use a static PowerPoint slide or textbook image to demonstrate a concept, it’s worth checking PhET to see if there’s an interactive version. PhET Interactive. What’s It Like? .

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Actively Learn ELA equips students to become better readers, writers, and thinkers by embedding rigorous instruction into short stories, current events, articles, close reading excerpts and even full-length novels. The content is vetted by subject matter experts to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Listening , San Francisco, CA Listening provides a mobile app designed for students and researchers to transform textbooks and research papers into audio, providing insights and note-taking ability on-the-go and helping to streamline the research process. Oblio, Inc.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Students could decide whether they’d like to read that day’s material from the textbook, or view a video summarizing the content. This can be as simple as letting students choose from a variety of formats for lessons and assignments so that each can learn new content and show what they know in optimal ways.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2015

But the book has petrified into rock, a veritable crystallized fossil, something long out of use and valuable only to future archaeologists studying early, primitive 21st-century homo sapien reading implements. He’s got a thick hard-cover “Adobe Digital Desktop” textbook.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our efforts seem to be paying off, as all of our elementary and middle schools are rated by the state as either “shows progress” or “excels” in terms of reading and math achievement. Under these more rigorous standards, students are expected to read more complex texts and reach greater depths of knowledge than before.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2017

Now, before you stop reading, note my use of the word “sometimes.” Here is a sample of the pushback I hear: “My colleagues and I aren’t ready for a digital textbook.”. We don’t have the budget to go 1:1, therefore, we can’t go with digital textbooks.”. There, I said it. 3 Reasons Why Teacher Buy-In is (Sometimes) Overrated.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM? Or is it by challenging them to actively engage in projects that attempt to solve real-world problems?

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Many educators who use Vernier probeware in their classroom have noted a deeper engagement and understanding when students watch an event and collect data simultaneously when compared to only reading a table of measurements in a textbook.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Students were struck by their newfound ability to retain knowledge through listening to music rather than reading from a traditional textbook. Most importantly, this resource is customizable, allowing me to use it as a supplement to lesson plans, as a homework assignment, and as a studying tool.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Whether delivered via visually engaging textbooks or powered by the most advanced digital technology on the award-winning Savvas Realize LMS, Savvas Learning Company’s rigorous, standards-aligned resources focus on putting the student at the center of learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Click here to read the full app review. Effectively, any time you’d use a static PowerPoint slide or textbook image to demonstrate a concept, it’s worth checking PhET to see if there’s an interactive version. Remind Education. What’s It Like? .

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Click here to read the full app review. . If there’s a chart in the textbook they want to reference quickly, they can snap a picture and add it to their notes. note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from Graphite by Common Sense Media. Notability. What’s It Like?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

To many students, these subjects mean reading long-winded textbooks and memorizing incessant facts. History and social studies bad reputations for being boring. They don’t necessarily see the importance of studying something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

I teach sixth-grade reading to four classes of 20 students, most of whom have no internet access at home. Students today are so accustomed to videos, animation, and gaming that we need to look beyond our traditional tools—textbooks and lectures—to the true promise of what technology can offer in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Already, K-12 schools are beginning to leverage the E-Rate for a digital transformation [read here and also here ]. And more schools are incorporating mobile tablets and smartphones into their curriculum [read about the staggering growth of Chromebook implementation here ].

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