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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

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Given that YouTube continues to be chocked full of educational videos that are often accessible and custom-captioned, perhaps we don’t have to reinvent the wheel or become DIY videographers to find an approach to video-based learning that matches our teaching philosophy?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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This year, students were assigned states and asked to write an eight-measure melody corresponding to their assigned states. Many of the second and third-graders I work with are very comfortable with touch screens and technology, and it’s natural for them to view and complete assignments in this format.

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. It was positive.

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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids

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Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other. Teachers give a lot of bite-size assignments, or assignments that are done on the devices.

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Can a Sitcom Teach Philosophy? Meet a Scholar Advising 'The Good Place'

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And we also checked in with an administrator at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who assigns the show in a first-year seminar she leads. For this week’s podcast, we talked first with Todd May, that professor helping to advise The Good Place. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge podcast.

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Teachable Moments: Connecting With Students In — and Out — of the Classroom

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It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Forget ‘Sage on the Stage,’ and ‘Guide on the Side.’ The Challenges Of Teaching In the Trump Era

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So in terms of instead of assigning a paper, is there another way that a student can demonstrate their learning of whatever objective that you have, that isn't a traditional research paper. So as I learned more about how to help learners be more motivated, and allow them to recognize their own agency in their learning.