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Classroom robot boosts STEM, engages children with autism

November 5, 2013April 10, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor

To help celebrate National Robotics Week, one little robot-that-can is making its home in U.S. classrooms, helping train children with special needs and advancing science, technology, engineering, and…

Curriculum

51 award-winning apps, games, and websites for learning

April 10, 2013 by ESchool News Staff

This year, Common Sense Media has recognized 51 children’s apps, games, and websites with its highest (five-star) rating for learning potential. These digital resources are “really engaging” and…

District Management

Education Schools Innovate to Supply STEM Teachers

April 9, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Biologist Kaleigh LaRiche spent most of her first two years after college working in wildlife education at the Akron, Ohio, zoo. Today, she's a first-year science teacher in…

Curriculum

‘Hackathons’ to create education apps

April 8, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

The New York Times reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook plans to hold two “hackathons” this month, bringing together software developers and educators to…

District Management

Guest: Turn STEM into STEAM with arts education

April 8, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

I tell people that I am a native of Seattle, but that I only knew it before it became cool. The creative economy hadn’t really happened yet —…

Blended Learning

Ten of the best virtual field trips

August 8, 2016April 7, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

To help educators save time, we've chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.

Curriculum

Learn to Code Movement: For all students

April 4, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Over the last seven years, Liz Davidson and I had the privilege of working with hundreds of inspiring students from low-income communities, the Huffington Post reports.

Curriculum

Engaging learners through games: Help or hype?

October 10, 2013April 4, 2013 by By Ben L. Grimley

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…

Curriculum

Five examples of innovation in today’s schools

April 4, 2013 by By Britten Follett

A student-developed vocal warm-up app … Graphic novel biographies … Robotics competitions: Students and teachers using technology to drive innovation is a theme woven throughout this year’s Follett…

District Management

Maryland explores mandating high schoolers take four years of math, among other reqs

April 3, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Public K-12 schools and higher education could see sweeping curriculum changes as lawmakers in Annapolis consider a bill aimed at bolstering the number of college graduates in the…

District Management

Try these free resources for the flipped classroom

March 11, 2014April 2, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

The flipped classroom is an education trend that has generated a lot of buzz, but some educators have struggled to create or find videos that are both short…

District Management

What makes a good teacher preparation program?

April 2, 2013April 1, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

To make sure students graduate from high school prepared to tackle whatever path they choose, teacher preparation must focus on making today's education system a learner-centered instructional model,…

Curriculum

Five ways to get kids to want to read and write

March 29, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

How can teachers get students to want to learn? Asks the Washington Post.

Curriculum

Educational apps of the month: March 2013

May 6, 2013March 29, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Associate Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

Through our "App of the Week" feature, every Monday we pick an Android or Apple app to highlight online and in our newsletters. Check out these four new…

Curriculum

Sex-Ed teacher is being punished for saying the word ‘vagina’

March 28, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Tim McDaniel, an 18-year veteran of the biology department at the public school in Dietrcich, Idaho, might have to figure out how to teach the miracle of life…

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Lumosity offers free accounts for students to ‘train their brains’

March 27, 2013 by ESchool News Staff

Lumosity has turned breakthroughs in neuroscience research into fun, effective games for stimulating your brain and improving skills such as attention, memory, and problem solving. Now, through the…

Curriculum

With little resources for Arts in schools, theatres bring performances to the classroom

March 27, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Last summer, just after the National Corporate Theatre Fund launched the Impact Creativity campaign to sustain and grow theatre education programs serving mostly disadvantaged kids across the country,…

District Management

New report sheds light on open educational resources

November 5, 2013March 26, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

A new resource aims to help educators learn how to use open educational resources most effectively, as it dives into proper implementation, costs, and other important factors.

Curriculum

Bring your own tech to school…and become a hacker!

November 5, 2013March 25, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Synching, optimizing, and personalizing is known as configuration management and it's a thriving technology business, says a writer for the Huffington Post.

Curriculum

AP good for high school, bad for college?

March 22, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

I complained recently that college professors too often wrongly dismiss high school teachers as being unsuited to teach college-level classes such as the Advanced Placement courses so popular…

STEM & STEAM

How the Common Core is redefining math instruction

October 28, 2014March 22, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

What does teaching math look like under the Common Core standards? Lots of classroom interaction and more inquiry-based approaches to learning, according to experts who are helping schools…

District Management

Occupational therapy for special-needs students moves online

November 5, 2013March 21, 2013 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor in Chief, <a href='https://twitter.com/eSN_Dennis' target='_blank'>@eSN_Dennis</a>

The San Francisco company PresenceLearning has provided live online speech therapy to thousands of K-12 students in the last few years through a process known as “telepractice.” Now,…

District Management

Adobe Education Exchange now features free professional development

March 20, 2013 by ESchool News Staff

Billed as “one of the largest communities of creative educators in the world,” the Adobe Education Exchange is a free online platform for educators using Adobe’s photo, video,…

Curriculum

KKK in classroom: What can hatred teach kids?

March 20, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Popular knowledge suggests that hate is learned, like writing or reading. So who is the most effective teacher, and what happens when professors and teachers invite hate groups…

District Management

How the ‘Big6’ can aid in Common Core implementation

July 29, 2013March 20, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

With implementation of the Common Core State Standards under way, a method known as the Big6 can help ensure that a curriculum put in place to meet the…

Curriculum

Latinos slam Texas offensive against ethnic studies

March 19, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Texas has become the next battleground over ethnic studies, the Huffington Post reports.

District Management

Digital learning MOOC now open to school leaders

March 19, 2013 by From staff and wire reports

Enrollment opens today for a first-of-its-kind Massive Online Open Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed) that will help school district leaders make the shift to digital instruction in their schools.

Curriculum

Chicago schools order book on Iran out of some classes

March 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

The Chicago Public Schools ignited a controversy this week by ordering that "Persepolis," a critically acclaimed graphic novel about a girl growing up in Iran at the time…

Curriculum

Carnegie Mellon, NSA seek high school hackers

March 18, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking, the Associated…

District Management

Integrating the ‘four Cs’ into instruction

August 23, 2013March 14, 2013 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor in Chief, <a href='https://twitter.com/eSN_Dennis' target='_blank'>@eSN_Dennis</a>

While policy makers and education leaders have been talking about the need to teach 21st-century skills for more than a decade, not enough attention has been paid to…

Curriculum

BoomWriter adds a 21st-century twist to a time-tested writing technique

March 13, 2013 by ESchool News Staff

Co-created by a teacher and the CEO of a technology company, BoomWriter is a free, easy-to-use group writing website that challenges students to produce their best work—and makes…

Curriculum

Discovery Ed expands Techbooks to include math

March 13, 2013March 13, 2013 by From staff and wire reports

Discovery Education has announced that it will expand its digital textbook series to include mathematics. The Math Techbook is the latest addition to the company’s Techbook line, which…

Curriculum

Student class project leads to minimum wage jump

March 12, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

If anyone deserves an A+ this week it's Marisela Castro, a daughter of farmworkers who turned her Social Action class project at San Jose State University into a…

District Management

How I turned my classroom into a ‘living video game’—and saw achievement soar

November 6, 2013March 12, 2013 by By Joli Barker

The notion that struggling and failing is important to learning runs counter to traditional approaches to U.S. education. In the world of gaming, however, the very elements of…

Blended Learning

What makes a good broadband network for schools?

November 5, 2013March 8, 2013 by By Meris Stansbury, Online Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_meris' target='_blank'>@eSN_Meris</a>

A panel of broadband experts recently agreed that high-quality access for schools and districts means more than providing a connection to the internet—good broadband provides a foundation for…

District Management

Can a school project make a difference in a community?

March 7, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

The Industrial Revolution isn’t exactly the sexiest of topics for high school students, TakePart.com reports.

District Management

Four keys to success with digital textbooks

March 7, 2013 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

Moving to digital textbooks is easier said than done—it takes months of planning, stakeholder buy-in, and perseverance. A new infographic from OnlineCollege.org pulls data from the Federal Communications…

District Management

Opinion: Why the ‘learning pyramid’ is wrong

March 6, 2013 by Staff and wire services reports

A lot of people believe that the “learning pyramid” that lists learning scenarios and average student retention rates is reliable, says the Washington Post.

District Management

Schools shift from textbooks to tablets

March 7, 2013March 6, 2013 by From wire service reports

Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks.

To help celebrate National Robotics Week, one little robot-that-can is making its home in U.S. classrooms, helping train children with special needs and advancing science, technology, engineering, and…

This year, Common Sense Media has recognized 51 children’s apps, games, and websites with its highest (five-star) rating for learning potential. These digital resources are “really engaging” and…

Biologist Kaleigh LaRiche spent most of her first two years after college working in wildlife education at the Akron, Ohio, zoo. Today, she's a first-year science teacher in…

The New York Times reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook plans to hold two “hackathons” this month, bringing together software developers and educators to…

I tell people that I am a native of Seattle, but that I only knew it before it became cool. The creative economy hadn’t really happened yet —…

To help educators save time, we've chosen these 10 virtual field trips based on their relevancy, depth and quality of resources, and potential for student excitement.

Over the last seven years, Liz Davidson and I had the privilege of working with hundreds of inspiring students from low-income communities, the Huffington Post reports.

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…

A student-developed vocal warm-up app … Graphic novel biographies … Robotics competitions: Students and teachers using technology to drive innovation is a theme woven throughout this year’s Follett…

Public K-12 schools and higher education could see sweeping curriculum changes as lawmakers in Annapolis consider a bill aimed at bolstering the number of college graduates in the…

The flipped classroom is an education trend that has generated a lot of buzz, but some educators have struggled to create or find videos that are both short…

To make sure students graduate from high school prepared to tackle whatever path they choose, teacher preparation must focus on making today's education system a learner-centered instructional model,…

How can teachers get students to want to learn? Asks the Washington Post.

Through our "App of the Week" feature, every Monday we pick an Android or Apple app to highlight online and in our newsletters. Check out these four new…

Tim McDaniel, an 18-year veteran of the biology department at the public school in Dietrcich, Idaho, might have to figure out how to teach the miracle of life…

Lumosity has turned breakthroughs in neuroscience research into fun, effective games for stimulating your brain and improving skills such as attention, memory, and problem solving. Now, through the…

Last summer, just after the National Corporate Theatre Fund launched the Impact Creativity campaign to sustain and grow theatre education programs serving mostly disadvantaged kids across the country,…

A new resource aims to help educators learn how to use open educational resources most effectively, as it dives into proper implementation, costs, and other important factors.

Synching, optimizing, and personalizing is known as configuration management and it's a thriving technology business, says a writer for the Huffington Post.

I complained recently that college professors too often wrongly dismiss high school teachers as being unsuited to teach college-level classes such as the Advanced Placement courses so popular…

What does teaching math look like under the Common Core standards? Lots of classroom interaction and more inquiry-based approaches to learning, according to experts who are helping schools…

The San Francisco company PresenceLearning has provided live online speech therapy to thousands of K-12 students in the last few years through a process known as “telepractice.” Now,…

Billed as “one of the largest communities of creative educators in the world,” the Adobe Education Exchange is a free online platform for educators using Adobe’s photo, video,…

Popular knowledge suggests that hate is learned, like writing or reading. So who is the most effective teacher, and what happens when professors and teachers invite hate groups…

With implementation of the Common Core State Standards under way, a method known as the Big6 can help ensure that a curriculum put in place to meet the…

Texas has become the next battleground over ethnic studies, the Huffington Post reports.

Enrollment opens today for a first-of-its-kind Massive Online Open Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed) that will help school district leaders make the shift to digital instruction in their schools.

The Chicago Public Schools ignited a controversy this week by ordering that "Persepolis," a critically acclaimed graphic novel about a girl growing up in Iran at the time…

Bored with classes? Carnegie Mellon University and one of the government's top spy agencies want to interest high school students in a game of computer hacking, the Associated…

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…

While policy makers and education leaders have been talking about the need to teach 21st-century skills for more than a decade, not enough attention has been paid to…

Co-created by a teacher and the CEO of a technology company, BoomWriter is a free, easy-to-use group writing website that challenges students to produce their best work—and makes…

Discovery Education has announced that it will expand its digital textbook series to include mathematics. The Math Techbook is the latest addition to the company’s Techbook line, which…

If anyone deserves an A+ this week it's Marisela Castro, a daughter of farmworkers who turned her Social Action class project at San Jose State University into a…

The notion that struggling and failing is important to learning runs counter to traditional approaches to U.S. education. In the world of gaming, however, the very elements of…

A panel of broadband experts recently agreed that high-quality access for schools and districts means more than providing a connection to the internet—good broadband provides a foundation for…

The Industrial Revolution isn’t exactly the sexiest of topics for high school students, TakePart.com reports.

Moving to digital textbooks is easier said than done—it takes months of planning, stakeholder buy-in, and perseverance. A new infographic from OnlineCollege.org pulls data from the Federal Communications…

A lot of people believe that the “learning pyramid” that lists learning scenarios and average student retention rates is reliable, says the Washington Post.

Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks.

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