Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. How can you proactively remove those barriers?

Blended Learning 545

Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. One way to achieve this is by rotating students from a pre-video activity into the video lesson and ending with a post-video activity.

Lecturing 433

Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 433

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. This workflow positions the learner as the active agent in the experience.

Blended Learning 535

Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. Students remember lectures that are infused with humor.

Attention 121

Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 121

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

Blended Learning 467

Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 467

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom learning, active learning strategies for students promote student-centered learning environments that enhance academic outcomes and cultivate lifelong learning skills. This strategy promotes active participation, collaboration, and peer learning.

Active Learning 143

Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 143

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. Tablets and interactive smartboards also encourage active learning through games, competitions, and role playing. To be successful, active learning depends heavily on the student’s participation.

Learning Styles 327

Learning Styles Participation Hybrid Learning Attention 327

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? Or, if you’re Maynard Kereke (Hip Hop M.D.), Try, fail, learn, repeat.

Teaching Methods 315

Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 315

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Learning Menus: Provide students with a learning menu filled with intellectually rich activities.

Critical Thinking 322

Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 322

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

times more likely to be hopeful about the future than their actively disengaged peers. Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. The more you treat education as a game, the more likely students are to pay attention and be engaged in class.

Gamification 246

Gamification Lecturing Internet Instructors 246

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At the same time, students say play makes them want to learn more (43 percent), helps them remember what they learn (42 percent), and helps them pay attention (40 percent). I encourage every teacher, principal, and parent to try a play-based learning activity with their students and see what joyful and meaningful learning should look like.

Learning 315

Learning Textbooks Lecturing Elementary School 315

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Learning Menus: Provide students with a learning menu filled with intellectually rich activities.

Students 297

Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 297

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Feedback 122

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. The videos consumed in a flipped classroom are usually lectures pre-filmed by instructors, but less attention has been placed on the learning potential of assigning feature films to students outside of class.

Lecturing 204

Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 204

eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. This is just one of many ways that teachers can show students how to have an active role in their education and extend learning throughout life.

Skills 297

Skills Gamification Learning Intelligence 297

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. Students remember lectures that are infused with humor.

Attention 96

Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 96

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.

Student Engagement 93

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 93

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Feedback 111

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are active study strategies? These strategies empower students to take an active role in their learning, enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and academic success. What are active study strategies? These strategies empower students to take ownership of their learning and engage actively with the material.

Study 130

Study Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning 130

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This website offers an introduction to AI, AI Snapshots (5 minute student activities), AI challenges for students, an AI in 5 minutes primer, and even a 10 week project-based course in the project dashboard. Their website is packed with teacher-ready curriculum and activities that can be used throughout the year with students ages 5-18.

Intelligence 344

Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 344

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

Instructors 213

Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Teachers can incorporate collaborative activities, discussions, and cooperative learning strategies, like reciprocal teaching , that promote speaking and listening skills. This can hinder their engagement and participation in classroom activities, preventing them from fully benefiting from the learning experience.

English 274

English Blended Learning Language Languages 274

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. Its worth investigating the student-to-faculty ratio and whether professors are actively engaged in teaching or if most instruction is left to teaching assistants. Are there strong employer connections and alumni networks?

Questions 292

Questions Students Study Textbooks 292

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s that in some cases attention gets really focused on a set of practices that are untested and can distract from the discussion that we have about teaching. And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. It’s not to say that anything that’s new is bad.

Art 167

Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting. This was my soundbite, but it was effective, that lectures are the pedagogical equivalent to bloodletting.

Teaching 202

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

Hybrid Learning 141

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 141

Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2024

Just as our fixed-menu dining scenario highlights the limitations of a one-size-fits-all approach, traditional classroom settings often mimic this model with lectures or mini-lessons where a teacher presents information in a uniform way to all students.

Lecturing 195

Lecturing Reading Knowledge Study 195

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

If you structure your course in a way that enables students to collaborate and build relationships with their classmates, you will see increased engagement in discussions and activities because students feel safe and comfortable in that online environment. You can then use this information to form groups for discussions and activities.

Activities 119

Activities Lecturing Learning Communication 119

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

Lecturing 216

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

Essay 167

Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

With any interactive or active form of learning, so much of how a class goes depends on the students. In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning.

Lecturing 180

Lecturing Attention Questions Study 180

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research A new meta-analysis looked at the effectiveness of flipped learning, a model that asks students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning.

Teaching Methods 159

Teaching Methods Lecturing Middle School Middle School 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s even written a book about an approach called “ Flipped Learning ,” where professors ask students to watch lecture videos before they come to class so that class time can focus more on experiences and other forms of learning. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. They're no longer a joke.

Teaching 190

Teaching Attention Feedback Lecturing 190

eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

The VIS uses technology to show visual symbols, maintain children’s attention, and provide compelling multimedia language instruction. In a paper published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , it was found that scene cues (symbols that represent an entire event or activity) can be successfully interpreted on the Apple Watch.

Communication 199

Communication Disabilities Language Languages 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience. Have students complete interactive activities and exercises online. –Image credit Deposit Photos.

Exams 160

Exams Technology Quizzes Lecturing 160

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

Lecturing 207

Lecturing eLearning Instructors Course Evaluations 207