Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

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. The assignment becomes a one-dimensional chore underpinned by a constant anxiety of “I don’t know if this is what my teacher wants.”

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

They’ve been conditioned to sit in assigned seats, take notes, and listen quietly. We intentionally don’t use our valuable time together in class to lecture. But the biggest challenge is trying to get my students to rethink what it means to be a learner and rethink what learning looks like. School, we do not have a seating chart.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. One student may be an incredible public speaker but may wrestle with written assignments. But we havent gone far enough.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. In most flipped classrooms, educators provide materials for students to review before class such as readings from textbooks, worksheets or videos.

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Lecturing Textbooks Instructors Attention 198

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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Lecturing Disabilities Assignments Learning 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. Have Online Education Systems Replaced Traditional Lectures? With median U.S.

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Lecturing Essay Motivation High School 88

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 294

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Today, that sure seems quaint. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet points.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Chronic absenteeism accounted for 27 percent of the drop in math scores and 45 percent of the decline in reading scores from 2019 to 2022. With lectures recorded and assignments posted online, attending class began to feel optional. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this narrative flipped.

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Education Culture Lecturing Assignments 283

Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

ELs need ample opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English. Additionally, providing reading materials at different levels and genres with resources like Newsela and CommonLit , and assigning writing tasks that focus on language development, can strengthen their reading and writing skills.

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English Blended Learning Language Languages 273

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. Apple’s iPod had only recently come out, and Duke became one of the first to experiment with putting out free lectures online that people could listen to on these digital music players. Active learning wins.

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

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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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 81

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I am noticing that you haven’t posted and you haven’t uploaded any assignments. The student-body president at Purdue started a petition calling for the administration to add a reading day. 4 an optional reading day, though it’s up to each professor whether or not to honor it. Hi Eduardo. And if there’s anything I can do.”

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Lecturing Students Motivation Assignments 209

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Or read a short recap below. One takeaway from the research is that class time at colleges would often better be spent on having professors work with students in a more interactive way than a lecture. And what advice does Ericsson have for professors shifting to online teaching during COVID-19?

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Teaching Lecturing Study Assignments 202

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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. academic journal article or specific industry press).

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Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 209

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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Distance Learning Learning Blended Learning English 218

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. If students struggle through the Jupyter assignments in the individual space, Barba isn’t there to help them. It also found that students in traditional lecture courses were 1.5

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 161

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Students learn specific skills assigned by the teacher (to a group or individual) by playing age-appropriate, intuitive games based on appealing characters and fun interactions. Note: There is an option where parents can assign work to their children but this requires a fee-based account.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Assignments 183

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we’ve written. And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? Do I need this?

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Part 1: Pedagogical approaches Backward design Set the course goals and lesson objectives, then plan activities, assignments, and evaluations/assessments that align with the goals and objectives. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Provide variety in assignments.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

I teach four sections of a reading seminar for first time freshman who have low MAP reading scores from eighth grade. My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments. Some are unmotivated to do an assignment without direct guidance.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It As scholars, we probably should do something like that.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way. The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 194

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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STEM Math Internet Mobile Devices 339

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. academic journal article or specific industry press).

Discussions 97

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

eSchool News

JULY 19, 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.

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Critical Thinking Communication Education Lecturing 156

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When third-year students in strategy classes at BI Norwegian Business School have a question about their assignments next semester, odds are a robot will provide their answer. Berge says the bots serve two purposes: First, to respond to frequently asked questions, such as when assignments are due or when to catch office hours.

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Student Engagement Teaching Assistants Lecturing Students 167

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

For this week’s episode, I connected with Wesch to hear about his vision of how to turn online educational videos into what he calls “adventure lectures.” And he shares some of his tips for bringing online teaching to life, which include using duct tape and recording himself reading assigned texts aloud, with running commentary.

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Lecturing Internet Assignments Culture 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

The idea is that, instead of assigning students in traditional rows of desks, they would have a choice as to where they sit. I went from predominantly whole-group, teacher-led lectures to a more student-centered, personalized way of working with kids. I bounced around a few sessions but settled into one called “Flexible Furniture.”

Teaching 167

Teaching Middle School Middle School Lecturing 167

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, when assigned to work in groups during class, students who may have trouble focusing or even hearing the discussion due to the noise level may ask the professor for permission to work in the library or outside. Cold or random call.

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Disabilities Exams Lecturing Education 144