Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access. Because of this, educators have come to expect students to participate actively in the learning process and transfer their knowledge from the classroom to life. Why does it matter?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

” Tech wish lists If educators could have any tech tool for their classroom, 46% say interactive displays with advanced features are at the top of their lists. ” Tech wish lists If educators could have any tech tool for their classroom, 46% say interactive displays with advanced features are at the top of their lists.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

According to the App Association , there will be approximately 1 million unfilled computing jobs in 2024. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read how Microsoft is pairing K–12 classrooms with computer science experts! However, computational thinking does not have to be confined to a classroom. Engage Students in Data Science Through Activities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Key points: Innovative new technologies and strategies are impacting education in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 Tech-less teaching methods could alienate tech-savvy Gen Zs For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Does “new year, new you” apply to K-12 education in 2024?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2024. What are the projections for edtech?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Playworks partners with elementary schools, districts, and community-based organizations to support every kid–and adult–through play through programmatic services, coaching, consultation, and resources. The national nonprofit works to ensure that play is an integral part of a kid’s day–in school and beyond.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Id wanted to get a kids perspective on brain rot, Oxford University Press 2024 word of the year that describes both low-quality video content and what seemingly happens to the mind after watching too much of it. Theyre not allowed in any K-12 classrooms. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

How I Use Notion in the Classroom. Norwood Elementary School. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctorate of Educational Leadership at Texas Tech University with an expected graduation date of May 2024. He talks about how to get started and why people use it. Recently, my students wrote a website on Web 3.0 using Notion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

In elementary classrooms, the most effective model of blended learning is called the station rotation model. this model features students moving through different stations in the classroom while following a set schedule, and at least one of the stations includes digital tools and online learning activities. 2024, August 23).

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. She can be reached at apence@hbuhsd.edu.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Often the class is taught in a high school classroom by a high school teacher. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood. Even by Houston ISD’s own calculations, the school is expected to earn a B rating when 2023 and 2024 school “report cards” are released. It had an A rating from the state in 2022.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Rebuilding classroom connections in the era of phone-based childhoods would require district leaders to think big. Our intent was to get every kid, every day, involved in something positive outside the school day and extend that community learning past the classroom. The question was not How do we get kids off their phones?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– The Smithsonian Science Education Center and Carolina Biological announced new independent study results showing the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom curriculum improved students scores in N.C. Carolina is proud of the classroom study results and our partner at Smithsonian for getting the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

SchoolStatus , a leader in K-12 data-driven solutions that empower student success, announced today the launch of its 2024-25 Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Hearing directly from customers is crucial to ensuring that we never lose sight of the realities in the classroom,” said Russ Davis, Founder and CEO of SchoolStatus. “At

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

School Specialty , a leading provider of learning environments and supplies to the pre-K–12 education market, today announced the 2024 winners of its annual Crystal Apple Awards, which celebrate teachers who embody inspiration, leadership, and passion in teaching. GREENVILLE, Wis. and Canada.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Norwood Elementary School. Currently, he is pursuing a Doctorate of Educational Leadership at Texas Tech University with an expected graduation date of May 2024. I've got one principal who will reach out, and you know, the intro is typically, “hey, newer administrator question coming here,” which is completely fine.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here are a few specific predictions about what that could look like in 2024 for policymakers, schools and districts, educators, and publishers. Publishers Publishers will continue to work toward aligning their instructional materials to the science of reading in 2024.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The center, which is in its final design phase, will open its doors in fall 2024 to serve 245 2- to 5-year-olds in the district. This is a major shift as the district’s existing preschool program is typically served from one portable classroom at several elementary school sites.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This practical episode from a classroom teacher will help us explain learning to our students. James Nottingham (04:34) But it's slightly weird that I created it in my classroom teaching grade five kids. It works pretty well for higher elementary and middle schools particularly, as in that video does. Vicki Davis (04:30) Mm-hmm.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The activities in the book can be used effectively in classrooms, at career fairs, and during KidWind Challenges, the ultimate clean energy learning experience, to help bring energy to life. To learn more and to preordervisit stemsuperheroes.com/.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. Source: TNTP Opportunity Makers report 2024.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For K-12 leaders to succeed in creating high-quality CTE programming, here are five key trends and challenges I believe will affect this important field in 2024 and beyond. That is why STEM education is so important in elementary and middle school. School systems need to be creative in finding new ways to recruit CTE instructors.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The results were promising, according to a paper that was made public in October 2024. The other half still had to retake algebra in 10th grade, which is when they would have taken it anyway, but their test scores in 11th grade were higher than similar students who had learned math in a separate remedial classroom in ninth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a report released on August 19, 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Source: Edwards et al (2024), “Teacher Shortages: A Framework for Understanding and Predicting Vacancies.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

years in the traditional classroom, teaching in multiple states and special education settings and grades, and has over 12 years in education. Upon leaving the classroom, Stephanie dove in to learning more about special ed law and student and parent rights – where she quickly realized that a formal IEP training for teachers was needed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. On average, 30 percent of their students were English learners, but some teachers had zero English learners and others had all English learners in their classrooms.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

Novato, CA – The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development for high quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has revealed the winners of its 2024 PBL Champions award program, as well as the three educators selected for its John Larmer “JL” Lifelong Learning Award.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Now, Brown is a senior at Clemson, and next year, he’ll graduate and begin teaching in his own classroom. In our Future Teachers series, we meet people in teacher preparation programs who are on the cusp of entering the classroom, aware of the decline of the teaching profession and still unswayed. But I did enjoy teaching. Definitely.

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Educate AI Magazine

APRIL 11, 2025

Guliyev & Ucok, 2024 ). The hallucinatory production in AI is deeply troubling because when an AI hallucinates, it provides plausible explanations to a user, regardless of the users request, and it will double down on its fake explanations when asked follow-up questions ( zer, 2024 ). Peters & Matz, 2024 ; Schoenegger et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2024

Online attendance is a struggle In the spring of 2023, almost 1,000 Northern California elementary school children in grades 1 to 4 were randomly assigned to receive online reading tutoring during the school day. A draft paper about this study , led by researchers from Stanford University, was posted to the Annenberg website in May 2024.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. But many kids — and an increasing number over the last four years — lack access to the resources and experiences that introduce those skills to them before they start elementary school.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

Here are the honorees for 2024. 2024 Teacher Leader Impact Award winners Alyssa Dillard 5th and 6th Grade Reading Interventionist Metropolitan School District of Warren Township Indianapolis, IN Noemi Jimenez, MA Kindergarten Biliteracy Teacher St. Congratulations! Vrain Valley Schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The grant will award one elementary school a site-wide license for unlimited use of QoreInsights’ award-winning platform, the Classroom Education Plan© (CEP), for use in the 2024-’25 school year. What is the Classroom Education Plan (CEP)? Learn more about CEP [link] Who Should Apply?

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