Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Seventy-four percent of teachers from high-SES districts and 64 percent from low-SES districts reported their schools had cut the amount of time scheduled for child-directed activities in recent years. . It also seems to be a harsh indictment of school leaders’ inability to enact research-based (or even common sense) best practices.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. They’re part of the group doing flipped learning.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Longtime professor Cathy Davidson is on a mission to promote the practice of active learning. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Now think about how far the classroom has come since then–schools stocked with iPads and tablets, interactive touchscreens, and even virtual reality headsets. Now think about how far the classroom has come since then–schools stocked with iPads and tablets, interactive touchscreens, and even virtual reality headsets.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. My own experience teaching at The New School, a small Manhattan college, supports this style of instruction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Its conclusion? But eventually, they get it. “[The

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2015

note : In partnership with Lesson Planet , we asked their professional development resource arm, PD Learning Network , for the most popular videos on their site. We’ll be featuring a limited number of these, one a week, each Monday. “I’ve been able to kind of differentiate my way through that,” he said.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. While schools have worked to embrace technology for decades, innovation has been slow and fragmented, and most new technologies have been designed to solve a singular problem.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I took a very similar approach when I taught online at The New School in Manhattan a few years ago.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We STEM has always been lecture heavy,” she says, “and that's the big difference.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

“The classroom, where the actual learning takes place, was surprisingly void of impactful technologies. They get bored and they get on their phones and the schools get mad and ban the phones. Most kids today don’t even learn cursive, so note taking itself has already changed. But the phones aren’t the problem. Source: Echo360.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

There is the for-profit part, which goes by the same name, which develops the technology and tools that are tested and used in its nonprofit side, the Minerva Schools at KGI, which offers accredited undergraduate and masters programs that currently serve about 630 students. And, most importantly of all, “no lecturing.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The authoring system market is fairly modest, running under $400 million in North America, according to one analyst , but as digital programs continue to proliferate and as more schools turn to instructional designers, the market will surely take off. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With remote learning in full swing for a little over half of American elementary and high school schools, students are spending even more time in front of a screen: By some accounts, students are getting up to 5 or 6 hours of additional technology use per day. instead of broad lectures (e.g.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

. — BenQ, an internationally renowned provider of visual display and collaboration solutions, today announced that Paso Robles Joint Unified School District in California has selected and installed BenQ Boards in more than 200 classrooms across the district. BenQ Boards integrate with schools’ most favorite apps, including Google, Kahoot!,

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. Video is also proving to have solid results when it comes to learning outcomes—from higher test scores to increased engagement with learning materials to increased comprehension.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2016

This week, we’re taking you on a virtual tour of some of the latest developments and trends in K-12 learning, including flipped and blended learning, marketplace updates, and flexible learning spaces and their influence on active learning. This new tool makes the flipped classroom more social.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Its primary customer is the nonprofit university called Minerva Schools at KGI, which aims to offer a selective liberal-arts undergraduate education where classes are fully online, using video and interactive tools. Such a class for 400 students may require very different staffing than a traditional large lecture, he adds.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region. The concepts inherent to active learning are not new. During that decade, McMaster University pioneered the problem-based learning approach with its medical students. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

Flipping the Classroom Professors who recorded video lectures for online learning during the pandemic are realizing they have a new resource at their disposal. In contrast, flipped learning involves students learning material on their own first, reserving class time for group activities and active learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

The idea was to deliver digital instruction as a student-centered, peer-to-peer active-learning practice. Frustrated by conventional lessons—given principally in mostly soporific lectures—they dreamed that one day their constructivist approach of student-led discovery, would infiltrate residential classes.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

These experiences can range from the traditional lecture-style format to the emerging modern learning environments that are gaining in popularity. Classroom Evolution Paves a Road for Modern Learning Environments. Why is it so important that schools reimagine their learning environments? Brown said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Kevin Werbach, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania The fears about not having enough material to fill a class, or in getting behind with what you planned, are common. Peter Newbury , director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at University of British Columbia Okanagan, recalls such a time for him.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2023

Dip your feet in the nearest pool and scroll on through: In School, Girls Rule. A New Analysis Dives Into the Research Flipped learning had a big moment during the pandemic, when many professors decided it made a lot of sense to ask students to watch recorded lecture videos on their own, then use class time for active learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. Far too many distance learning discussions in the spring began with identifying digital tools. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download? But the reality is that this type of screen time isn’t as active as it could be.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

Tony Lam, head of mathematics at Marymount Primary School in Hong Kong, recognized the mindset change required to create a student-centered coding experience. EdSurge: How would you describe the CoolThink curriculum adoption for your school? EDUHK held regular workshops to update teachers on any developments and changes in the program.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Technology solutions can provide the personalized learning, lower costs , and encouragement needed at community colleges where increased fees and lack of structured-support can have a negative effect on the nontraditional student population. Enrollment has increased by nearly 5 percent, and the school has earned an extra $70K in revenue.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth. One effective teaching technique within active learning is problem-based learning (PBL).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In addition to mid-semester check-in techniques, I try to incorporate at least one low stake active learning strategy instead of direct teaching. We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

“The classroom, where the actual learning takes place, was surprisingly void of impactful technologies. They get bored and they get on their phones and the schools get mad and ban the phones. Most kids today don’t even learn cursive, so note taking itself has already changed. But the phones aren’t the problem. Source: Echo360.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

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