Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

It started with an underwhelming science fair—the type we’re all familiar with: students standing next to handmade posters, listlessly describing their projects, usually alone. began participating in the Tech Challenge more than ten years ago as a team advisor. Not your typical science fair . Some tips from the pros 1.

Art 160

Art Language Languages STEM 160

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

But even students who do have Wi-Fi and digital devices for schoolwork may not be able to fully participate in their courses if the technology they have is old, outdated or not powerful enough to handle the demands of today’s higher ed software and streaming services. So does lacking reliable access to a computer.

Students 204

Students Lecturing Assignments Exams 204

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Today’s educators seek to provide learning experiences that prepare students to be healthy, successful participants in college, career, civics, and home life. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. We no longer solely prepare students to be college-ready. We seek life-readiness.

Distance Learning 362

Distance Learning Hybrid Learning Accessibility Culture 362

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. fair use/public domain.

Instructors 157

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 157

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Each session includes expert video screencasts, classroom video clips, readings and resources, and assignments that will help participants create a strong foundation of communication within the classroom. K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll.

Teaching 186

Teaching Exams Disabilities Learning 186

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools. Alternatively, schools can assign a SmartSpot to a student or household for up to a year. While most schools in the U.S. schools to high-speed broadband nears completion.

Local Government 164

Local Government Internet Assignments Schools 164

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

The re-branded product still offers many of Classroom’s services, like organizing class assignments and providing feedback to students, but now the product will come with more collaborative messaging features (think Slack for Microsoft education). Instead, educators will be able to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education.

Multiple Choice Questions 152

Multiple Choice Questions Assignments Quizzes Game-Based Learning 152

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. No, we just have to show the example,” another responded.

Learning 160

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 160

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers.

Teaching 194

Teaching Internet Authentic Assessment Writing 194

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. He jokes that he usually uses an app on his smartphone to randomly assign groups, since all human decisions involve bias. He doesn’t sweat it, though, since he has a plan to get everyone back on track.

Textbooks 129

Textbooks Lecturing Beliefs Assignments 129

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

At the same time, the same small percentage of students participated in multiple activities, while much of the student body seemed disengaged. They used an assignment in their advanced quantitative reasoning class to conduct a racial equity audit of our campus. I encouraged them to document disciplinary differences over time.

Students 166

Students Fairness Culture Coaching 166

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Today, a teacher can see if a student is not doing an assignment or struggling to complete a worksheet. That means if a teacher assigns a Quizlet and a Smithsonian video to her students, he or she can then see how long students watched each one. Why is that important?

Blended Learning 146

Blended Learning Assignments Learning Outcomes Quizzes 146

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 96

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 96

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Open-ended, participant-driven Edcamps are also ideal for educators without a lot of outside professional development experience, Ferguson adds. Participants then vote on their favorites, which are assigned a presentation slot. There are a lot of teachers who aren’t on social media,” Ferguson says.

Fairness 137

Fairness Participation Art Assignments 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 27, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers.

Internet 158

Internet Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Writing 158

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Students earned points for every assignment that they completed to minimum specifications and for quizzes. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2018

But not all learning and community building is comfortable for every participant. As we were leaving, however, we realized that we were doing what we set out to accomplish: empowering parents to actively participate in their student’s education and lead them to success. Those of us nearby certainly felt bad about the family tension.

Culture 146

Culture Communication Internet Fairness 146

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. Topics include: copyrights, fair use, public domain. Assessment is project-based so participants should be prepared to be fully-involved and eager risk-takers.

Blended Learning 158

Blended Learning Teaching Learning Internet 158

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To boost classroom interaction and active participation, instructors can include proven strategies in their teaching toolkit to foster empathetic connections among their students. If class participation standards are set from the beginningwith appropriate explanations regarding whystudent buy-in should increase. Praise appropriately.

Instructors 105

Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 105

Gaggle Speaks

JULY 20, 2015

What if you allowed students to actively participate in parent-teach conferences? Use your LMS to house the preparation sheet template for easy access and assign it to each student. Switching to a student-led conference also can provide students more of an opportunity to take charge of various challenges on their paths to success.

Fairness 109

Fairness Students Assignments Participation 109

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Now, in a class of 25 students and within approximately 40 minutes, a teacher can know exactly where each child’s reading level is, and then, with the click of a button, assign them an article at that level. We are assigned an article by our teacher about Citi Bikes in New York City.

English 160

English Achievement Reading Grades 160

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To boost classroom interaction and active participation, instructors can include proven strategies in their teaching toolkit to foster empathetic connections among their students. If class participation standards are set from the beginningwith appropriate explanations regarding whystudent buy-in should increase. Praise appropriately.

Instructors 98

Instructors Feedback Discussions Participation 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2019

This shorter assignment still allowed students to demonstrate mastery toward the standard, and we had more time to make sure not just that those two paragraphs met the objective, but that students could also move their writing forward with a fuller understanding of the process.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Education Essay Fairness 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

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Instructors 92

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 92

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

They’ve been engaged, they’ve participated. And I don’t know how they’re going to figure out attendance, because it is completely not fair to expect kids to wake up at 5:00 a.m. So, if I’m talking about a final assignment in class, I’m able to say something like “ask me three questions” and we can do that pretty seamlessly.

Instructors 150

Instructors Fairness Lecturing STEM 150

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

A story in the Wall Street Journal today brought national attention to a program by the College Board that assigns what the newspaper calls an “adversity score” to students who take the SAT. The score is a number from 1 to 100, where 50 is average.

Exams 132

Exams Fairness Testing Evaluation 132

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

Each capstone student is assigned a mentor to help them pick topics, set goals and conduct their research. During the last five years, since the inception of the Bullis signature programs, we have seen an enormous growth in student capstone participation. We began with about 20 students. Why the increase?

Students 138

Students Art STEM Exams 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2020

Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. fair use/public domain. Can also be taken for college credit (see below, MTI 562).

Authentic Assessment 96

Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Instructors Internet 96

Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2023

I saw it as if they either cheated or didn’t cheat, and if they did, they received a zero on the applicable assignment, and I reported the incident to the university. Innovative material may include appealing images, creating videos or podcasts, polls or short quick quizzes, or creating a virtual game that makes them engage and participate.

Academic Integrity 105

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments Quizzes 105

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Students earned points for every assignment that they completed to minimum specifications and for quizzes. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit. Students may revise and resubmit an assignment that does not meet minimum specifications for full credit.

Grades 98

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

The game element comes into play because after every question, the top ranking participants are displayed before moving onto the next question which really ramps up the competitive spirit in almost every classroom I have seen use Kahoot. Google Apps For Education.

Math 99

Math Fairness Assignments Multiple Choice Questions 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

That anybody should stay up at night worrying about whether or not people that came, voluntarily, into an interest-based, informal experience, and didn’t read every single word and complete every single assignment? What do your participation numbers look like so far? That’s just dumb, as a premise. It’s because they’re MOOCs.

Education 142

Education Participation Fairness Accessibility 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Hill conceded that while “it’s not sexy and is often bashed, without it, students can’t get their grades or find their assignments.” At first, MOOCs were available largely free to an unlimited number of participants, but as economic realities forced vendors to reassess their unprecedented generosity, MOOCs evolved. million students.

Online Learning 156

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Instructors 156

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. A Model of Active Student Participation in Curriculum Design: Exploring Desirability and Possibility.

Discussions 115

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Even in our school, when assignments are handed back in class, students still rush to ask their classmates, “What did you get?” How can I set up rules, processes, coaching and supportive systems that are centered in fairness and accessibility?

Motivation 171

Motivation Students Middle School Middle School 171

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2019

Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. fair use/public domain.

Instructors 87

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 87