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Getting pre-service teachers comfortable using and teaching with STEAM tools

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Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators

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was free, and people had to pay at least $20 a month to get access to the state-of-the-art model. 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. “I

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

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Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. I incorporate graphs and charts to clarify grading.

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A Transformative Journey: Lessons from My First Year  

Faculty Focus

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. Think-Pair-Share Students need opportunities to process information during lectures. I incorporate graphs and charts to clarify grading.

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

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Classes aren’t led by a lone professor lecturing at the front of the classroom, but by teams of educators, with at least three virtual instructors and as many as ten to fifteen assigned to larger classes. Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college.

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Move Over, Laptop Ban. This Professor Teaches a 5-Hour Tech-Less Reading Class.

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David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. For starters, it’s long. and wraps up at 2:30 p.m.

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I EdSurge: Like most professors, you’ve spent most of your career lecturing. You mention that in the traditional lecture model, students get addicted to professors teaching, and not in a good way.

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