Meeting Students Where They Are: Strategies that Increase Engagement
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a heightened focus on student engagement. Educators have grappled with ... Read more
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5 ways to be an innovative online instructor
In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating in an online environment. Even to…
12 multimedia learning tools for the classroom
Multimedia learning tools play an important role in classrooms in a number of ways--including, but not limited to, boosting creativity, encouraging student engagement, and helping students learn to…
BetterLesson and Adobe release 300+ strategies for creativity, student engagement
As educators across the country work tirelessly to provide engaging lessons in new and ever-changing environments, there are still understandable ... Read more
5 Ways Student-Level Data Can Ensure Learning Continuity
Most districts lack visibility into their students’ patterns of digital engagement and learning, leaving them scrambling to figure out what ... Read more
GoGuardian Finds Three Factors That influence K-12 Student Engagement Online and In-Person
The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience ... Read more
Savvas Delivers Innovative Back-to-School Solutions to Help Teachers, Students and Families Succeed with Distance Learning
After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform ... Read more
Promethean Joins Google for Education Partner Program
Global education technology provider, Promethean®, announced that it has become a Google for Education Partner, integrating its ClassFlow® software with Google Classroom ... Read more
Google introduces Teach from Home
To support the hundreds of millions of students and educators currently facing school closures, we’re introducing Teach from Home—a hub ... Read more
How film and a flipped classroom lead to student success
According to research, in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching…
Why I use student-driven ideas in my curriculum
You might think that teaching a high school programming course in which students are asked to code simple games and interactive websites would be motivating and exciting, but…
5 tips for getting over your #edtech fears to engage and empower students
I have been lucky. I was on a computer at a young age, playing Math Blaster or Oregon Trail until my eyelids grew heavy and I had to…
5 useful tips to get the most out of virtual field trips
To help educators save time, we’ve put together a quick recap on how to prepare for your next virtual field ... Read more
Alan November to host student engagement webinar
Students are not engaged in the classroom like they should be, and educators are searching for ways to bridge this ... Read more
Report: Students’ tech use remains infrequent
Students' use of digital tools and other learning technologies remains relatively sporadic, according to a new study. Based on direct classroom observations of 140,000 K-12 classrooms across 39…
How 2 simple role-play games can transform students into active learners
Role-play enhances engagement and subject matter mastery. It's also a lot of fun
Do online charter schools measure up?
New research offers evidence that online charter schools post weaker academic performance and struggle more to maintain student engagement than their conventional brick-and-mortar peers. The National Study of…
Brain-wave sensors: The answer to student engagement?
A Florida-based start-up firm called Nervanix is working on an idea that, if successful, could help educators find the “sweet spot” to effective teaching: maintaining active student engagement.…
Getting students to engage — not just comply
I have students in my mainstream ninth-grade English and in my English as a Second Language (ESL) classes complete a simple “Reading Log” every Friday, the Washington Post…
Engaging learners through games: Help or hype?
Games are often trumpeted as the perfect tool for creating learner engagement. But what do we really know about how engagement works? What opportunities and risks do games…
24 iPad apps to support Bloom’s Taxonomy
During a recent webinar, educational technologist Kathy Schrock presented a variety of apps for iPads that can boost student engagement and collaboration, and that can be used for…
Tips and take-aways from a successful mobile learning program
Starting small might be the key to success when it comes to deploying a mobile learning initiative, according to two educators whose district has implemented a successful mobile…
Social learning networks promote student engagement, global awareness
One of the goals of a social studies curriculum is to ensure that students are aware of different cultures and geographies—including how these are similar to or different…
Readers: Five ways to motivate students
We recently highlighted a report from the Center on Education Policy that looked at how schools can motivate students. Now, here are some of the best ideas from…
ISTE 2012: Educators seek the brass ring of student engagement
“Redefining horizons: Encouraging students’ passion to achieve” is the theme for this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference—but in what looked like a scene that…
University research will evaluate physical data to gauge teacher effectiveness
A student’s physical reaction to a classroom lesson soon could be used to judge how successful—or unsuccessful—an educator is in keeping students engaged.
Panel: Evolving technology has great classroom potential
Technology, when used properly, has the potential to increase student achievement and engage students in learning. But the overwhelming number of technology devices and solutions sometimes leads to…
Can Twitter use help improve grades? Some researchers think so
Twitter use might be more than an extracurricular activity for college students, according to researchers from three universities whose work suggests that using the popular microblogging service to…
Like Facebook, but for learning
Aiming to engage students who are multitasking with different forms of technology, companies are creating collaborative learning spaces online where students can help one another solve homework problems…
Free tool lets students participate during class
Joining in the effort to keep students engaged in the classroom, Microsoft on April 29 announced a new addition to its PowerPoint software that allows students to participate…
Can social media cure low student engagement?
Keeping college students and their professors connected through social media outlets could be key in boosting graduation rates, education technology experts said during a panel discussion at Social…