Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

During the Spring 2022 semester, Smith started most mornings with 30 high school students who were enrolled in CIS 194 Cloud Foundations, a course delivered by ASU. Carey School of Business , along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the National Education Equity Lab. To date, over 225 high schoolers have enrolled in the course.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

With lectures recorded and assignments posted online, attending class began to feel optional. When school doors reopened, many families didnt fully come back. Unexplained absences only deepen the disconnect and limit schools ability to tackle absenteeism effectively. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this narrative flipped.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

For many schools, Zoom, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams replaced traditional classroom settings, enabling virtual instruction. Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

A large screen display or desktop monitor ensures everyone in the group can see the material easily, and individual touch screens allow students to complete assignments at their own pace and submit them to the teacher electronically or for everyone else to see.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” She has standing desks and wobble boards.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. These assignments werent just practice. The struggle was the entire point.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 273

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” She has standing desks and wobble boards.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 280

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Teachers might break down lectures in bite-sized video clips, and use live streaming, or synchronous, time to conduct wellness checks with students and connect with them individually or in smaller groups. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” There were worksheets, multiple choice tests, and lectures in front of the classroom. Learn more about the flow of dollars and deals in Chapter 2 of our State of Edtech Report.

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High School High School Quizzes Teachers 99

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. This is the reason why the mute button exists.” — Marissa Fusi, High School Math Teacher, Central Union High School (Imperial, Calif.) Get creative with your tools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses. The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. CoRise, though, actually makes learners pencil live lectures into their calendars. “It

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class. Let’s take a trip back to high school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. On average, instructors are assigned 230 students at a time--a big change from the 20 or 30 I was used to at NYU and Stevens. Southern New Hampshire’s course completion rate is 90 percent.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time. Kiddom , an all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, has expanded its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing. The products are designed to work seamlessly with existing IT infrastructure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Younger students are often overlooked when it comes to these issues because they’re more associated with students in middle and high school. This will be coupled with an emergence of new hands-on tools to support learning objectives, such as a renewed focus on after high school readiness.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this. The playbook for such nudges is changing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Once Onyemaobi completed her playlist, she had a one-on-one conference with her teacher, who assigned her a project to create a PowerPoint demonstrating how each body system corresponds with a real-world counterpart—the immune system as a hospital, the urinary system as the sewers, and so on. LaNiece Primus, who teaches U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As the semester progresses, I will create individual pages within the section for each session of the course, projects and assignments. Regardless of the platform, the challenge lies in ensuring that you can quickly find all of your course documents, assignments and notes easily and across all of your devices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

But by exposing them to different career paths, we can get them thinking about their life after high school before it’s too late. With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. Having a job may seem a lifetime away for a child.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. Case Study) Immaculata-La Salle High School: Tech team leverages iPads at this School with MDM. Recommended resources from Mosyle.

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Lecturing Mobile Devices STEM Attention 155

Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2020

The effort has expanded over the years, as the two have brought on new hosts and grown the collection to more than 1,200 videos on a range of topics, many aimed at the high school level. They had no formal training as teachers, and have developed a fast-paced and irreverent style.

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Lecturing Instructors Study Writing 147

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

I am a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland in the Educational Technology Program for the School of Education. My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Adrienne Davis: So, what's going on at our school, it was a really big domino effect, too. I also work part-time as a library aide at a high school. When we first heard about the corona here, the first major school that took action was University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. We do all our editing hands-on. to 8:00 a.m.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To determine placement in college-level or remedial courses, the students were randomly assigned either to a control group that used standardized exam scores—the normal procedure—or to an intervention group that used an alternative method: an algorithm. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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High School High School Exams Schools 52

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors. Ask students how they are feeling about assignments or specific strategies and why they are feeling that way. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Follow her @drchriscip.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

A significant challenge of 2020, specifically in terms of remote learning, has been ensuring students have the devices needed to learn as well as reliable Wi-Fi to access online classes and assignments. ISTE Live is slated to have an inspiring start.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

The open-study course is a free offering from Pioneer Academics , a public benefit corporation better known for its selective online research program, which pairs high school students around the world with mentors. Instead of lectures, he hosts spirited discussions with teams as they prepare their finals analyses and presentations. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And despite eventually growing into a bibliophile, this was a difficult truth to reckon with as I prepared to become a high school English teacher. My first year of teaching, I was assigned five sections of English 10. Video: Neil Gaiman Reading Agency lecture 2013. Conference: YALSA Symposium.

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Exams English Students Assignments 131

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

To offset students’ feelings of being “the only one” and to help develop feelings of connection, instructors in online courses may make use of strategies such as personal online introductions by faculty and students, discussion assignments, group projects, occasional video lectures, and Zoom office hours. Who is my instructor?”

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