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JANUARY 29, 2025

But in essays, research papers, and reports, you need a strong command of the language. It allows you to convey ideas, opinions, or arguments easily. Meanwhile, free courses guide students on everything, from sentence structuring to common vocabulary used in research papers. Not only dissertations. What Can You Do?

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JANUARY 28, 2022

Describe research you did to make your Minecraft world more realistic and workable. I’ve found throughout my teaching career that the most effective lessons are those with real-world applications. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. It presents your main argument and sets the direction for your paper. Each section should flow logically from one to the next, ensuring that your argument builds progressively.

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APRIL 11, 2019

I’ve been teaching technology for over fifteen years. While student familiarity with this tool has improved, one thing that never varies is the myths surrounding teaching with it. You don’t have to teach keyboarding. Another clever twist on the argument against keyboard training is that audio input will soon take over.

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MAY 23, 2024

They had an idea, though, for how they could set up a unique set of guardrails that would make a new kind of teaching tool that could help students get more of their ideas into their assignments and spend less time thinking about formatting sentences. They have been building tools together to help teach writing for decades.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Abbie Kay points out that a well-organized essay helps guide the reader through your arguments coherently and logically. Focusing on these structural components will ensure that your essays are well-organized and easy to follow, enhancing the clarity of your argument. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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MAY 18, 2023

It is mandatory for all students and is an independent piece of research that culminates into a 4,000-word paper. The requirements guide discussions to ensure the article meets the standards for successful research. Some of them include citation guidelines, research question formulation, word count, etc.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

When Teaching Students Math, Concepts Matter More Than Process By Nicola Hodkowski Researcher Nicola Hodkowski makes a case for moving beyond students memorizing the process of doing math and instead fostering a deep understanding of mathematical concepts. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

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MAY 21, 2024

Ellen Galinsky has been on a seven-year quest to understand what brain science says about how to better teach and parent adolescent children. In the past, Galinsky says, researchers and educators have focused too much on portraying the emotional turmoil and risky decision-making that is typical in adolescence as negative. “The

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JUNE 25, 2024

Essentially, they should redesign assignments and how they instruct to help teach mental focus, modeling how to read, write and research away from the constant interruptions of social media and app notifications. He’s been teaching since 2006, so he remembers a time before the invention of the iPhone, Instagram or TikTok.

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MARCH 2, 2020

A few useful actions that help in eradicating plagiarism are discussed below: Initiate the research process early: Writing everything in a rushed manner often leads to plagiarism. Genuine students are committed to their research activity and attempt to produce new knowledge through their research. More about plagiarism.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Such arguments obscure many of the real, pressing problems in education right now—a mental health crisis, workforce shortages in sectors across the field, nearly two years of lost or lackluster learning experiences. And more than that, vilifying SEL will likely only move education in the wrong direction, educators and researchers say.

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JUNE 4, 2024

But his book, and that demo, are also attracting some pushback from teaching experts who think AI may have lots of uses in education, but that tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’

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AUGUST 23, 2023

How do teaching methods influence understanding? How The Classroom Environment Shapes Understanding of Cause and Effect Relationships Mastering cause-and-effect relationships in research is crucial for a student’s academic future and career. The goal of scientific research is to shed light on the mysteries of nature.

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JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. The relationship between and among ideas—how do you teach that?” Is the evidence reliable? Is it relevant?

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JUNE 7, 2017

Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. using research authentically. Give students time to research, but not too much time. They must connect to opponent’s arguments.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Honestly, I missed people and a lot of people I know in CS Education and CS Ed research are here. She started publishing and researching what became object oriented programming while I was in the early stages of my career. One was the work involved in changing – new resources, teaching aids, test questions, and the like.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Look at what Harvey Silver says in his book, Compare and Contrast : By compiling the available research on effective instruction, Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock found that strategies that engage students in comparative thinking had the greatest effect on student achievement, leading to an average percentile gain of 45 points.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

That’s the question posed by science journalist Annie Murphy Paul, who points to research emphasizing the many ways that thinking is influenced not just by what’s inside our skull, but by cues from our body movements, by our surroundings, and by other people we’re interacting with. I’ll take one from each area of research.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. is supported by research. Supporting Student Argumentation – Understanding Structure and Language of Argumentation. Not anymore.

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MAY 20, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic drove a big increase in homeschooled students, according to Johns Hopkins University’s Homeschool Hub , a collection of homeschooling research and resources. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Research suggests that when exposed to a learning environment that prioritizes the well-being of the whole child, not just their academic performance, students become more confident, optimistic and perceptive. Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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JULY 16, 2024

So, templates provide a visual framework for a polished and professional appearance, whether it is a presentation, research paper, or report. Therefore, the essence of circumventing plagiarism lies in the commitment to delivering entirely original work, which is fundamentally achieved through: Exhaustive research.

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MAY 16, 2016

Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They tie arguments to class reading, general knowledge as well as evidence from research. using research authentically. Give students time to research, but not too much time. They must connect to opponent’s arguments.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

Writing an essay is mostly difficult for students as they need to rely on their research and writing abilities. Well, in the modern context with digital approaches, it is possible to research firmly on any particular subject matter. We are talking about essay writing, which you find a daunting task.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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APRIL 13, 2015

Change your approach to teaching. They work in groups to learn the tool (using help files, how-to videos, and resources on the site), create a project using the tool (one that ties into something being discussed in class), and then teach classmates. If you’re doing PowerPoints, use the last few weeks for presentations.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Each team builds a case to address the particular environmental concern they consider to be the most critical by researching, building a convincing argument, and then presenting it to their audience. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. The Four Seasons. App (iOS only), Grades K-2. Online or app; K-2.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Students addressed their own climate anxiety by applying their research skills in designing climate solutions and writing defending arguments to local politicians. This required students to not only read instructions but also to analyze information and synthesize research to communicate their ideas effectively.

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MARCH 18, 2024

This semester, I’m teaching two brand new courses. I’m team-teaching with Steve Abney, a computational linguist. Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. It’s an unusual computing education research paper because we’re making an argument, not offering an empirical study.

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MAY 17, 2022

We talked to: Michelle Cantu-Wilson, director of teaching and learning initiatives and special projects at San Jacinto College. Tyler Roeger, director of the center for the enhancement of teaching and learning at Elgin Community College. Wendy Schatzberg, director for the center of teaching and learning at Utah Tech University.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships. Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed. What do you mean by that? And that has to be intentional.

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MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. A core part of that is preparing students to write out in the real world. But there are forces that get in the way. This isn’t a novel idea.

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APRIL 25, 2023

In her first year as a teacher, Stephanie Malia Krauss quickly learned that teaching fifth grade effectively involved a bigger variety of skills than she got in her teacher-prep program. Krauss is the author of a new book, “ Whole Child, Whole Life: 10 Ways to Help Kids Live, Learn, and Thrive.” Why, and what do you mean by that?

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JUNE 24, 2015

The result is a compelling argument that education is less a data download and more a fitness program for our brains. ” Common Core Standards expect students to ‘value evidence’, ‘make arguments evidence-based,’ and ‘comprehend and evaluate complex texts’ as students draw conclusions.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

The revisions were embroiled in arguments over what good math teaching looks like. If the textbooks, courseware, lesson plans and worksheets used in schools reflect all students’ realities, the argument goes, it will set all students up for real learning. Riling up many of these no-holds-barred K-12 scraps is “inclusivity.”

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