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3 Tips for Building Community Online

Catlin Tucker

This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing. If students are not participating in discussion or group work in breakout rooms, that may indicate that they are not feeling comfortable asserting themselves online. 10 minutes).

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A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible

Edsurge

Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. EdSurge: My first question is a two-parter, Jen. Why does group work suck so much? And why do teachers and professors continue to assign it?

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Assignments with Significance

Faculty Focus

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste!

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Back to Basics: Lesson Planning for the Concurrent Classroom

Catlin Tucker

In a previous post, I described how blended learning models could make this challenging teaching assignment more manageable ; however, that post assumes that teachers are familiar with blended learning. I do, We do, Groups Do, You Do: Interactive Modeling Session. Create an Interactive Agenda for This Lesson with Google Slides.

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Understanding cognitive development in students via Piaget’s Theory

eSchool News

In elementary education, incorporating hands-on activities, promoting group work, and using visual aids are crucial for effective learning. Group work fosters collaborative learning through projects and discussions, thereby encouraging students to consider different viewpoints and ideas. Hands-on activities (i.e.,

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

However, we have often been frustrated by the lessons proposed in our language textbooks for learning about culture; these lessons usually come in the form of disconnected short readings with comprehension questions. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.