Active Learning, Culture and Learning Tools

How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

For the past four years, applied learning pedagogies, including digital tools like game-based platforms, have been explored within LAUSD to build math, literacy and social-emotional learning competencies using applied learning pedagogy. Celebrate and showcase students’ achievements and learning outcomes.

STEM

STEM Learning Science Learning Outcomes

The Link Between Edtech, Curiosity and Creativity in the Classroom

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

We are focused on helping educators deliver impact in a few key areas: Creating active learning experiences that foster self-expression What happens when students are given more options to engage with content and demonstrate their learning?

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes Beliefs Student Engagement Feedback

What ‘Shakespeare Karaoke’ Teaches About the Virtual Reality Future

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning. These are the kinds of questions that the creators of extended reality learning tools are thinking about. Shakespeare was meant to be performed.

Teaching

Teaching Art Beliefs English

Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The prospect of national universal preschool and affordable child care on the horizon—both of which will need curriculum and learning tools—certainly isn’t hurting, she adds. Every content experience is embedded in a cultural or community framework.” And now, this is getting more and more structured.”

Math

Math Reading Quizzes Activities

The Case for ‘Edtech Minimalism’ in an Age of Distance Learning

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They allow me to not only minimize the complexity of digital learning, but also help ensure that when students do use them, they are doing so as part of an active learning process. Some believe that managing the complexities of dialogue and discourse is ultimately more challenging and less sustainable, but I argue the opposite.

Distance Learning

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking

Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

The use of one or more learning style instrument should be given to students so instructors can better develop learning activities. Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). IGI Global. Laseinde, O. T., & Tartibu, L.

Learning Styles

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning

43 back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Schools can reduce their risk of data breaches by fostering a culture of cybersecurity best practices among students, parents, educators, and staff. K-12 schools house many kinds of valuable student data that appeal to bad actors–everything from personally identifiable information like social security numbers to medical histories.

Schools

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation

The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Asian consumers and businesses alike are culturally prone to seeing education as an investment and not an expenditure,” Alison Baum, Managing Partner at Fresco Capital, wrote in an email to EdSurge. “As Other investments outside of the LearnLaunch community include CodeMonkey and language-learning tools, ELSA and SpeakingPal.).

Testing

Testing Gamification Culture History

Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2023

The use of one or more learning style instrument should be given to students so instructors can better develop learning activities. Learning style instruments help students and faculty consider the depth of learning and teaching opportunities (Kolb & Kolb, 2005). IGI Global. Laseinde, O. T., & Tartibu, L.

Learning Styles

Learning Styles Instructors Education Learning

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Recording lectures and making them accessible online ensures that students who encounter problems or need additional review have the resources they need to succeed (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021). Active Learning and Gamification Active learning techniques became invaluable in reinforcing key concepts.

Teaching

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary

Strategies for Teaching Complex Subjects in Large Hybrid Classrooms Across Campus: Bridging Engagement and Equity Across Modalities

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Recording lectures and making them accessible online ensures that students who encounter problems or need additional review have the resources they need to succeed (Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning, 2021). Active Learning and Gamification Active learning techniques became invaluable in reinforcing key concepts.

Teaching

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary

Trauma-informed practices in higher education: Building support communities from the topdown

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

A solution: Build support communities among faculty that model inclusive, consensus-building learning environments and model teaching and learning using trauma-informed evidence-based practices. Connected faculty will build connected students who will become connected alumni and that is good for the bottom line.

Education

Education STEM Active Learning Peer Review

Online Learning Meets Social Media: A New Era of Education

k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Building a Digital Learning Culture In a traditional classroom, culture is built through physical presence: greetings at the door, shared lunchtime, or spontaneous group work. The Rise of Edu-Influencers and Peer Learning Social media has also democratized who teaches. But educators are flipping the script.

Online Learning

Online Learning Ethics Education Learning

With Stressed-Out Students in Challenging Times, Faculty Must Embrace Caring Practices

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

But these days more professors take a more caring approach to teaching—a compassionate response to the collective trauma driven by the COVID pandemic and other challenges facing today’s college students That became clear to me a few months ago when I gave a talk on the benefits of active learning to more than 75 New York University faculty.

Ethics

Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors

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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

The Link Between Edtech, Curiosity and Creativity in the Classroom

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