Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2025

According to a tutorial , “Gimkit is an excellent game-based learning platform that combines fun and education, making it a highly engaging tool for both teachers and students. Jamie Keet explains : “After establishing your basic Kit information, you will then move onto the fun part–adding your questions! What is Gimkit?

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Students Fairness 265

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

Developed by a passionate educator in Texas, a place I still consider my second home, AIR Language offers levelled, adaptive practice in grammar, vocabulary, and speaking. Teachers can assign lessons or have students engage with guided AI prompts that build academic vocabulary, sentence structure, and confidence in real time.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

It juggles the experiences of individual composers, characteristics of genre, availability of resources, assignment and individual goals, and constraints of composing environments. The objective process lens encourages teachers to ask key questions when designing instruction: Do students have a clear idea of how to execute the formal need?

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

The question is: Are we helping them use it safely, ethically, and effectively, or are we leaving them to figure it out on their own? Effectively : Use AI to enhance learning, not replace it–whether for brainstorming, exploring questions, or reinforcing concepts. The accuracy question: Can we trust AI’s answers?

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Khan Kids , a separate app for younger learners (ages 2-8), combines educational videos, stories, and games that focus on early literacy, math, and social-emotional development. Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions.

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Math Quizzes Critical Thinking History 273

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. I have incorporated this particular linguistic shift into my work with other educators at Relay Graduate School of Education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Innovations and Education, eSchool News’s podcast on the latest and Greatest and Everything, Ed Tech. It’s certainly something that I hear all all the time and there’s no question that people being aware of. So the US Department of Education’s work has ceased.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

When educators take the time to apply proven strategies, students with autism can and do thrive–academically, socially, and emotionally. This might mean clearly outlining what is expected in an assignment, breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, or organizing test questions in a logical, grouped format.

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Students Learning Styles Assignments Communication 237

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. Teachers havent stopped assigning projects on wolves, genetic engineering, drug abuse, or the Harlem Renaissance, but the way students approach those assignments has changed dramatically.

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Evaluation Ethics Academic Integrity Internet 259

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Reams have been written about the challenges with general education at US colleges and universities. Students often view general education requirements (gen eds) as “hurdles” to overcome on their way to the learning that matters to them. is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies? A shift in the fundamental mindset of educators and learners will be vitally important as AI becomes more and more commonplace.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 97

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global survey shows. and sixth form students in England and Wales–as well as 250 of their teachers–to get their insights on the impact of AI on math education.

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Math Participation Feedback High School 249

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies? A shift in the fundamental mindset of educators and learners will be vitally important as AI becomes more and more commonplace.

Critical Thinking 126

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 126

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Reams have been written about the challenges with general education at US colleges and universities. Students often view general education requirements (gen eds) as “hurdles” to overcome on their way to the learning that matters to them. is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades.

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 89

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Odgers, a professor of psychological science and informatics at UC Irvine, launched a national survey to investigate the use of AI among teens, parents and educators. It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 165

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

And they point to a crucial insight for education: the key to unlocking students’ motivation, especially in adolescence, is helping them see that they have value —that they are valued by the people they care about and that they are meaningful contributors to the groups where they seek belonging. All of those are real.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. This approach will help students better understand and utilize AI as an educational ally, enabling innovative methods for effective classroom integration.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 81

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Tell a colleague that you are committing to the work of becoming a more inclusive educator.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Among the apps affected were WPS Office and File Manager, both commonly used for document handling in educational settings. Although no major exploitations have been publicly linked to the Dirty Stream vulnerability within educational institutions, the incident underscores that hackers do not discriminate when choosing victims.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. ” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Elianis: Before using the tool, I couldnt ask questions or talk to other students in the classroom.

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English Languages Language Assignments 128

Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 69

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Educators can incorporate assignments that require students to verify AI responses, identify bias, and analyze conflicting perspectives.

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 74

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. Therein lies a paradox I have struggled with in my career: How can I continue to teach students that questioning authority is not only okay, but sometimes necessary, while maintaining a position of authority myself? history in an urban St. They are for everyone. One day, Ms.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 112

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. What a good question. As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 67

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding? Heres what we believe meaningful computer science education should do to foster a generation of technologically literate learners: 1.

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Science Education Ethics Students 111

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2025

The decision has also emboldened opponents of the emerging school choice movement, which aims to give parents options beyond the assigned district public school, often using public dollars to do so. Classifying charter schools as private would have opened questions about whether that could continue across the states, he said.

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Schools Assignments Questions Testing 76

Teach Hub

MAY 2, 2025

By engaging in these dynamic activities, students are empowered to connect academic concepts with practical applications, enriching and transforming their educational journey. How to Implement: Pick a thought-provoking question related to a book, historical event, or current issue. They explore concepts deeply and collaboratively.

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Activities Learning Students Critical Thinking 82

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Chronicles of Higher Education. The Age of AI is Upon Us. Schoeder, 2024).

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 95

Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

According to this survey , 42% of Americans disliked math classes during their K-12 education. Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment. Clickers allow students to respond to questions anonymously, so even those who are hesitant to speak up can still engage.

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Math Textbooks Quizzes Participation 89

Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Reciprocal reading is a structured yet flexible strategy where students work together to make sense of a text using four roles: summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor. Here we’ll explain how it works and why it’s worth educators using it in their classroom. Group students together and assign each student a role.

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Reading Discussions Fairness Questions 67

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Enriching the Core Strategy The original flipped classroom model aimed to reverse the traditional structure of education by shifting the transmission of basic content, often done through lectures, outside the classroom, while using face-to-face class time for active engagement and problem-solving. Flipped Classroom 2.0: Flipped Classroom 2.0

Critical Thinking 80

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 80

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Enriching the Core Strategy The original flipped classroom model aimed to reverse the traditional structure of education by shifting the transmission of basic content, often done through lectures, outside the classroom, while using face-to-face class time for active engagement and problem-solving. Flipped Classroom 2.0: Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 89

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates.

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