Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. By asking these questions, we instill the importance of decision-making skills in students and a sense of responsibility for their learning that traditional school models otherwise lack.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

Programs like ASDAN, BTEC, and the Duke of Edinburgh International Award give students additional pathways to develop leadership, problem-solving, and real-world skills. A key part of this approach is the ASDAN curriculum, which is designed to develop practical skills, social integration, and emotional intelligence.

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Exams Counselling Education Schools 137

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Some said yes, or gave textbook answers such as, “So we can be successful in high school,” or “to grow our brains.” But many, when pushed, said no.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. Theres something for everyoneacademic clubs like Debate, DECA, HOSA, and Model UN challenge critical thinking and sharpen presentation skills. The result?

Schools 209

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Art 209

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all online platforms deliver quality education, and the lack of face-to-face interaction can hinder social development and collaborative skills. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 18, 2025

3D Coordinate Plane Model with Moveable Axes : Boost spatial skills and help abstract thinkers master 3D graphing in calculus. Add Real World Connections : Ditch the textbook-only numbers, and bring in real stats like stock prices, sports data, or local budgets. It’s perfect for group work and simulations.

High School 52

High School High School Math Schools 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. This establishes a baseline of each students writing style, vocabulary, and skills.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

k12

JUNE 24, 2025

I now have a lot of the necessary life skills needed to function in the real world because I’m not as worried about everyone else’s approval as I used to be. However, I’ve found my courses to be much more unique and not as textbook-based. A lot of people think that online learning hurts social development for the future.

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Schools Grades Students Online Learning 52

Southwest Washington Education

JULY 5, 2025

Sweden has been reconsidering the role of digital tools, such as tablets, in its education system, particularly in response to concerns about declining reading comprehension skills among students. The country has historically been a leader in digital education, with tablets being a common sight in classrooms for over a decade.

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Schools Reading Skills Textbooks 94

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. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 271

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

For decades, schools have been scaling up the technology incorporated into the classroom, from small computer labs designed to teach basic computer skills to student-assigned tablets for more complex, daily assignments (and occasional play). However, this is misleading for two reasons. Distractions.

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Technology Textbooks Assignments Writing 283

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. So that you continue to keep people on that track and developing their skills. Soumakian: Are you working with open educational resources? It’s got to be learning driven.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

“In the past, it was drill and skill. “And instead of a textbook that could become obsolete every few years, (the online) program allows us to keep the curriculum relevant,” Walther said. It wasn’t very engaging. “I’m not in front of the class much anymore.

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Skills Teaching Lecturing Textbooks 265

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 culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Textbooks Culture Students Participation 187

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

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice. It doesn’t matter whether a student reads a story for English, a chapter in a textbook for science or math, or an online article for history; they need to be actively thinking about what they are reading. Whole Group Rotation Model.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Traditional textbooks or workbooks provide limited means of interacting with information. The process of setting goals, monitoring progress, and engaging in conversations with teachers about their academic growth can help students to develop their executive functioning skills. Physical Action.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Textbooks 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

Teachers can host a series of short Zoom or Google Hangouts sessions throughout the day focused on different skills or topics. Below are three suggestions for using these video conferencing platforms to continue teaching students as they learn remotely. #1 1 Small Group Instruction. 2 Facilitate a Small Group Discussion.

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Learning Students Textbooks Discussions 546

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Educators often talk about 21st-century skills and the benefits of incorporating communication, creativity, collaboration, problem-solving, and critical thinking into lessons. These are skills students rarely learn straight out of a textbook. If that sounds daunting, rest assured, it doesn’t always have to be.

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STEM Textbooks Learning Students 280

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Forty-two percent of surveyed teachers said at least one digital device is used each day, and 75 percent said they believe digital content will replace printed textbooks in the next 10 years. The top five devices used at least weekly in the classroom are: Laptops (56 percent). Desktops (54 percent). Tablets (51 percent).

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Textbooks Learning Students Skills 279

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2024

These are the soft skills associated with financial literacy. These responsibilities include imparting knowledge and equipping our students with practical life skills beyond textbooks and exams. Core soft skills ensure that a business and brand are well received. How will they repay the loan?

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Skills Students Exams Communication 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

One in six employers is hesitant to hire young adults due to their lack of a strong work ethic and practical job skills, even as they struggle to fill critical labor gaps. By embracing and promoting these opportunities, we can equip our young people with the skills they need to thrive in an ever-changing world.

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High School High School Curriculum Ethics 303

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2020

Even now, as students are learning at home and with fall openings uncertain, school librarians play an important role in helping students develop important critical thinking and digital citizenship skills–skills they’ll need more than ever in an increasingly online world with unvetted sources of information shared far and wide.

Textbooks 271

Textbooks Critical Thinking Knowledge Curriculum 271

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know. Summarize the main ideas from a chapter in a textbook. Observe and Capture Data with a One Skill Rubric.

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Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. A strong curriculum integrates industry certifications, technical skills development, and career pathways that align with workforce demands.

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Gamification Quizzes Knowledge Textbooks 287

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Blackbullion , London, UK Blackbullion is a financial well-being platform and app equipping students with financial skills. Perlego , London, UK Perlego is an online subscription for more than one million academic textbooks. The platform houses the UK’s largest hub of support funds, scholarships, and grants for students. Oblio, Inc.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 291

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This “cookbook recipe” teaching style not only stifles creativity, but it can also hinder critical thinking skill development. It helps students develop motor skills. If they have the skill sets necessary to problem solve, communicate, improvise, and try, they’ll be able to do anything. It’s all-encompassing.

Science 312

Science Critical Thinking STEM Textbooks 312

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. Offering students different options through which to demonstrate their understanding and their writing skills is another way to discourage them from automatically using AI. “We

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 321

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Curly Bracket , from Ashoka fellow and Swedish social entrepreneur Johan Wendt, is a combination textbook and graphic novel that builds students’ computational thinking skills. But far too often, students lose interest in STEM at an early age, creating a stubborn pattern that many are hoping to break.

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STEM Textbooks Attention Science 279

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

Key points: AI can provide new opportunities and allow us to see things differently AI tools can help create learner profiles to give educators a more accurate impression of students Learning now is so much more than making notes from a textbook and critiquing other people’s ideas.

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Education Exams Textbooks Study 291

eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A majority of school principals say instruction in their classrooms regularly includes digital games, online textbooks, and online videos, animations and simulations. Here are 10 examples of equity resources and efforts to address equity in action: 1.

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Textbooks Internet Assignments Accessibility 278

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review. PhET Interactive.

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Math Science Textbooks Grades 278

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration tools facilitate real-time communication and teamwork, essential skills in a digital world. Students not only acquire technical skills in coding and robotics but also develop critical thinking and teamwork abilities. Moreover, technology provides instant access to a wealth of information, cultivating digital literacy.

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Technology Teaching Gamification Textbooks 260

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Instead of using VR to gamify the classroom, students can use VR to develop higher-order thinking skills that are critical for thriving in today’s digitally connected society– here’s how. VR allows educators to move past pages in a textbook to create totally immersive experiences that stimulate and inspire students.

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Textbooks Learning Outcomes Student Engagement Science 312

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills.

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431