eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

. “Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., The variety keeps students engaged because each game offers a different experience.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

Intelligent assistant solutions can also help teachers analyze student data and alter lesson plans to best benefit their classes. Programs like Century Tech use AI to study student engagement and responses in order to help teachers and education administrators understand how their students learn.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Counting the number of raised student hands to measure student engagement? There’s a lot more to understanding the engagement of a strong classroom, according to professional learning expert Jim Knight. Student engagement can take many forms. Are students doing the task presented to them?

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

Competency-based education (CBE) is a method of instruction and evaluation in which the student demonstrates mastery of specific subjects. If they can prove mastery of those competencies, students can move further in their learning instead of being forced to attend classes on that same topic together with their colleagues.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With interactive whiteboards, students and teachers manipulate content directly on the surface of the screen. Student engagement increased and classroom collaboration was set to skyrocket. Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. For another, they’re high-definition displays.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, teachers must show students how to engage with digital media, so they can have fun while staying safe online. For example, games can teach students vital life skills like resiliency and give them the confidence to solve complex tasks. Read more: Creating a safe environment for online learning. What is Digital Literacy?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

I picked everyone’s brains and came up with a list of five webtools you definitely must look at: Classcraft. It clarifies history, helps students find related events, and is a visual representation of what happened. While the toolkit is free, you do have to provide your professional details to access the download. Timeline JS.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Learn what it means, what benefits it brings, and what teachers need to create a personalized learning environment for students. Using edtech to personalize education for students is already something that many educators do by incorporating technology in teaching activities , such as: Learning management systems (LMSs).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Our research found significantly higher student performance at schools that measure fundamental school quality factors and boast high levels of student engagement. What effect does student engagement have on student performance and school quality? Implement a balanced assessment system.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

As it turns out, there’s no one definitive answer. Choose one definition and esports qualifies as a sport. ” At first glance, this definition seems to back the assertion that esports is not a sport. Most of which clearly bears no resemblance to most definitions of sport. What about competitive video gaming?

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Linways Technologies

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What is an Assessment. Assessment, is a series of measurements that uses various methods and techniques, to collect data on student learning in order to refine teaching programs and improve student learning capabilities. It is a continuous process fixated on measuring student learning outcomes for. An overview.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 2, 2017

As edtech authority Eric Sheninger (1) has noted, digital tools can boost student collaboration while they grapple with class material. This increased and streamlined student engagement with other students, as well as the subject matter at hand, has been known to produce more holistic and deeper learning. .

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 24, 2017

The temptation, when it comes to converting your long-time and much practiced classroom lessons into online modules, is to simply convert each class (by a temporal definition) into online lessons. Learning stations – set up various points in class where students engage in either individual practice, discussion, assessment or creation.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Read part one to learn how this teacher improved her student feedback system to increase student engagement. At the same time, our middle school science department made the switch from traditional grading to standards-based assessment and overhauled our philosophy to focus on fostering revision practices.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. From these programs teachers are armed with “personalized learning plans” for each student. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2018

Teachers get tangled in a web of standards, mission statements, and assessments, and spend too much time on what their institution considers essential. It is a daily cerebral adventure, fully as engaging as Star Wars , as challenging as The Matrix , and as gratifying as The Life of Pi. Lifelong learning is a better way.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Below I have summarized some of the pre-planned activities that my teachers planned and had their students engaged in on Digital Learning Day. History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Image credit: [link] In Ms.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

With interactive whiteboards, students and teachers manipulate content directly on the surface of the screen. Student engagement increased. Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. For another, they’re high-definition displays. Students can see their notes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

BPS Assessment Academy. We invited a team of 35 teachers from seven schools to design summer workshops focused on innovating formative assessment practices. Our challenge was to personalize learning for ourselves so that we could personalize learning for our students. How might peer-to-peer feedback improve student achievement?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. So my students would do Social Studies, not just read about it. One inspiration would be the entirely-student-run Online Model United Nations.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. With 1:1 computer access for grades 3–8, students engage in coding, inquiry-based learning, and critical thinking beginning with Kindergarten.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

There are a lot of definitions in regards to STEM education usually in regards to the nouns including Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Make sure this definition is understood by everyone including those educators that may not think of themselves as STEM. Create a clear vision and mission for STEM in the school or district.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

a month – it’s definitely a tool worth investing in. Gimkit: Gimkit is a game-based learning platform where teachers can create learning games or quizzes that students play in real-time. Gimkit is engaging and a fun way to tackle assessment. Though it does have a cost – between $6.99

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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Linways Technologies

JUNE 26, 2020

As said by Donald Kirkpatrick himself, “ each program needs to be assessed at this level to help improve the model for future use ”. Teachers can use feedback forms and measure student engagement in classes to evaluate the students’ reaction. Keeping a scale to quantify the results will be helpful. Level 2: Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

If we’re okay with that soft definition, it will harm students,” he says. So rather than reinvent the wheel and conjure up a new definition, he looks to the past at a concept that precedes the technology used in classrooms today: The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The students and the communities in which schools exist change with time, so educators need to keep up. The e-learning trends we identified for this year were: gamification, personalized learning, bite-sized learning, video-based learning, adaptive learning, peer to peer assessment and official degrees for online courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2019

We don’t stop to pinpoint what is working—and for whom—and we definitely have a penchant for recreating the wheel. They can’t deeply examine theories around student engagement or productive struggle because they are required to teach page 156 from the math textbook by Friday.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 24, 2017

The temptation, when it comes to converting your long-time and much practiced classroom lessons into online modules, is to simply convert each class (by a temporal definition) into online lessons. Learning Stations – set up various points in class where students engage in either individual practice, discussion, assessment or creation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Much of our teacher professional development focuses on use of programs or tools, but falls short when it comes to imparting best practices around teaching and learning methods, digital and in-person instruction, differentiated assessment and data analysis. The best programs feature teachers who are strong in all these areas.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

One of the most effective strategies I’ve found is using the 5E (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate) model of instruction in science. Engage Our brains remember new and exciting things. In addition, I use vocabulary cards that have definitions as well as pictures or drawings to make them more comprehensible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Vicki: Yeah, you know, teacher engagement comes before student engagement, doesn’t it? And start with THAT to send out the energy not just from you, but then it just starts to absorb within your kids and your classroom. Things can just take off from there. Aaron: Yes, yes, absolutely. And so I think it’s OK to build parameters.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2014

For example, in 2009, Gallup studied 78,000 students in 160 schools in eight states, finding that a one-percentage-point uptick in a school’s average student engagement was connected to an average six-point increase in reading achievement and eight points in math. The post Almost 70% of teachers are not engaged.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

How were you able to ensure that students were learning the material? One of the better parts of the class was having an assessment component every week. There are great teachers all around the world, and I definitely think it's the type of model that can be repeated and used to help a lot of students.

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Linways Technologies

JULY 24, 2020

So if a particular student is achieving any of the COs, the faculty can assess his/her performance as in if they will be able to achieve the respective POs in the long run or not. Various assessment tools are used to evaluate the attainment of these COs. Some of the common assessment tools include exams, surveys, fieldwork, etc.

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