Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

While it may seem logical for teachers and professors to clearly disclose when they use AI to develop instructional materials, just as they are asking students to do in assignments, Watkins points out that it’s not as simple as it might seem. But many experts say it depends on what a teacher is doing with AI.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. First, the authentic design opportunity to develop instructional materials for adult learners motivated many to participate in the MOOC. Why has this crowdsourcing design project been successful? Create a clear design guide.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JULY 13, 2023

” question about the way generative AI might change the ways that learners interact with instructional materials like textbooks. This week I’d like to ask another. The overwhelming majority of faculty have no training whatsoever in teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

How might state assessments be unfairly disadvantaging English learners? Create high-quality curriculum and assessments for English learners in STEM Curriculum developers, teachers and researchers should work together to develop instructional materials and resources that take into account the range of English learners’ needs.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

What is formative assessment? What makes a good formative assessment? How should I use formative assessment results? How do I know what type of formative assessment to use? What are the benefits of using an edtech tool for formative assessment? What is formative assessment? They are actionable.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

After finding a review they want to consider, educators can then focus in on the evaluation, comments, and recommendation regarding the educational material, and in many cases compare that review to a different state’s review of the same resource. Utah’s Process and Reviews.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Twenty-year-old Asmaa is an example of how constant change and upheaval were hallmarks of the previous school year. The transition to nontraditional instruction required educators to consider not only students’ access to technology and instructional materials, but of adequate food and necessities often provided by schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

achieved National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency in fourth grade reading. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. This is because, ordinarily, students who read behind grade level may be pulled out of class to join a different group, or given different material to read, thereby isolating them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 180

Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. Differentiation is the adjustment of teaching methodologies, instructional materials, the classroom environment, means of assessment, and content to match the interests and needs of learners to achieve the targeted learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

All of this happened because I stepped back—and because the instructional materials gave my students opportunities to find meaningful connections to their lives. Related : How to find, curate, and assess OER 5 steps to implement OER in your LMS.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Shift 1: Moving to Transferable and Conceptual Teaching A 2022 University of Texas study analyzed more than 200 word problems from the PARCC assessment and the Smarter Balanced math test in elementary and middle school. Including high-quality instructional materials—lesson plans, pacing guides, assessments, and rubrics—is essential.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

For example: California’s debate about revisions to its statewide math framework included provisions to shake up math instruction, in an attempt to keep it rigorous but also find a way to narrow achievement gaps among students of different races and income levels. And that impacts the development of materials, she argues.

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Educate AI Magazine

MARCH 1, 2025

Examples include ChatGPT, Perplexity, character.ai, and Claude. Early examples include Anthropics computer use to operate online interfaces like a human; Salesforces AgentForce automating workflows in customer service, marketing, and sales for their customers; and Replits agent for software development.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

However, picking words off the page is only a portion of what is measured in benchmark assessments. I live in Connecticut, and if a teacher here asked students to read about college football on an assessment, they wouldn’t do as well as students from Texas, where college football is a lot more relevant.

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Libraries Strategy Instructional Materials Examples 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And because of the range of resources, students and the adults who supervise them (whether teachers or parents) need guidance on how to assess which are the best materials for which purposes. There are a lot of digital materials out there that may not be well-aligned with curricula,” she said.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 3, 2016

With support from ED, state leaders, and new platforms for curation and discovery, there has never been a more exciting time to rethink traditional, static instructional materials. As with any instructional materials, quality is key. From equity, to cost, to teacher empowerment, many benefits of open resources exist.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2024

Another superintendent emphasized the challenge of finding math teachers proficient enough to teach their subject, a problem exacerbated by state hiring regulations and union rules that prevent the assessment of candidates’ knowledge. Most teachers are not even two grade levels above students in their math content knowledge,” she said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

Curriculum and instructional materials live on websites, in the cloud, on paper, in LMS’s, in Google Drive or OneDrive. Let’s look at an example. example shows, schools are not just a system but a complicated system. (Source: Transcend ) The Role of Edtech: Connecting the Pieces So where does technology come in?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

A prime example was the New York City School System, which had prohibited students and teachers from accessing ChatGPT’s website on school computers. It can also process a wide range of data, including instructional materials, student work, and assessment results, to offer evidence-based insights.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain to LMSs, efficacy research, and assessment security / adoptability. simulations), and adaptive support and assessment tools.”. This would be a horrible consequence.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Four dots next to a printed number 6, for example, meant that students had to draw in two extra dots — an important precursor to learning addition. Last spring, 47 percent of the district’s fourth graders were proficient or advanced in math on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Flexible Teacher Support: Embedded teacher support and meaningful professional development are built right into the program, while new, ready-made instructional materials for each lesson make teacher preparation time quick and easy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 For example, known as the Black Escalation, teachers have been shown to severely discipline Black students versus white students. percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

—Natalie Franzi, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Middletown Township Schools 2. Empower teachers to personalize instruction Ultimately, it comes down to the teacher. No advancement in classroom technology or instructional materials will ever have the impact of a passionate, empowered teacher.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2022

She is extremely deserving of this scholarship and is a prime example of the wonderful graduates our nation’s urban public schools produce. Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. See CGCS.org.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

She provides the all-too-common example of transferring a paper and pencil quiz with low-level questions and one right answer into an online environment. This does not improve assessment practices or give a teacher more insight into learners’ reasoning. True educational equity then pivots on what teachers do with technology.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

I predict that in the new year, more administrators and other educators will focus not just on building knowledge and ensuring their materials are aligned to the science of reading, but they will go beyond to examine hiring practices, multi-tiered systems of support, assessments, the science of learning and implementation, and more.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

Missing State End-of-year Assessment Data. Department of Education approved state assessment waivers for all 50 states and D.C. These annual assessments serve several purposes, one of which is to gauge how much students learned during the year and whether they are ready for the next level of learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2018

Schools were unhappy with both the cost and the quality of the instructional materials available. For example, Tom Davidson at EverFi builds unique partnerships with the business community to subsidize the delivery of their content in public schools. Sometimes a CEO has to take a company in a new strategic direction.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Finally, administrators should set up assessments to help track student needs. However, these assessments should be asset based. For instance, a writing assignment could ask them to discuss something interesting they learned from their family while studying at home. Again, don’t keep the entire focus on what they lost.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Examples include the opportunity for high school students taking health classes to observe and interact with medical personnel as they perform procedures, or a musician in a distant city teaching classes and leading rehearsals while online. There’s also an emphasis on ensuring inclusion of diverse students in different types of settings.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

Architectural examples embodying UD principles include features like curb cuts benefiting various users (e.g., 2013) define UDL as “a set of principles and techniques for use in the classroom along with the design of accessible instructional materials.” Here are some practical examples for each principle: 1.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. For example, in one activity, she supercharges a regular lesson by having students record explanations of what they’ve learned on their iPads.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2016

Today Learning List, the leading instructional materials review service for schools and districts, announces its alliance with The College Board to provide professional, independent reviews of Advanced Placement (AP) materials to empower educators to select instructional materials that will best prepare their students for success in AP courses.

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