Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection? A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. In fact, there are a number of simple methods teachers can use to spark student engagement while fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. In fact, there are a number of simple methods teachers can use to spark student engagement while fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meanwhile, 80 percent of teachers across the nation are reporting critically low student engagement, signifying a lack of connection with the material, the methodology, or both. If traditional teaching methods reliant on textbooks, lecture, and rote memorization have proven anything, it’s that one size definitely does not fit all.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. Ignoring for a moment the difficulty with attention spans, how can teachers change this to get students excited about education? There are new techniques that take engagement to the forefront for students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Engage students actively for deeper learning and enhanced academic outcomes Enhance learning through active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking skills Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Neil Browne, Question-Based Critical Thinking Reflecting on my more than five decades of teaching critical thinking, I feel disappointment that I showed so little respect for the multiple pathways to engagement ­­­available to teachers. We shrug off critical thinking questions about those topics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. Building critical-thinking and problem-solving skills in math. That may seem counterintuitive. Instead, there is a great deal of complexity between the two.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Enhanced Student Engagement: Well-designed AI education tools can be more interactive, adaptive and engaging for students compared to traditional lectures or books.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

These strategies empower students to take an active role in their learning, enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and academic success. While these methods may draw attention to key points, they do not necessarily promote understanding or retention. What are active study strategies? What are active study strategies?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam. MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Building workforce-ready skills–including digital literacy, critical thinking, communication skills, collaboration skills, and more–is another big part of today’s education. Introducing robotics and coding into the curriculum helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It is an organized set of principles to extend thinking and expand learning in a tangible framework that can be applied to any college course. However, the power of the Mindful Learning Framework lies in the fusion of the principles to strengthen the thinking and learning process.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Interactive technologies and multimedia tools now replace traditional textbooks and lectures, creating more dynamic and engaging learning environments. Modern students require interactive and stimulating content to sustain their attention and deepen their learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 20, 2020

As we try to figure out what schooling will look like in the months to come, we need to pay attention to the motivators and demotivators that help foster student engagement. Listening to teacher lectures and doing rote, low-level desk work isn’t going to help her stay engaged.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

MOOCs are just digital versions of the much maligned large group lecture, virtual flashcards are simply another tool for useless rote memorization, and online textbooks are just one more problematically unidirectional method of transmitting information without cultivating learning.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This difficulty could be because this age group tends to be distracted by their social life and other outside activities, which makes it hard for teachers to capture and hold their student’s attention. Virtual Guest Lectures Arrange video conferences with experts in the field of science.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. While Anbar admits the online shift changed his role from a lecturer to more of a coach, he’s adamant that he—not technology—maintains ownership over the class. Promises and Pitfalls.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

two to three keywords, color/contrast change, or a symbol that attracts attention to area of the screen ). It helps concentrate student attention by emphasizing crucial information, therefore targeting certain components of the movie for processing in working memory. Spencer Willis, Jr.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It is an organized set of principles to extend thinking and expand learning in a tangible framework that can be applied to any college course. However, the power of the Mindful Learning Framework lies in the fusion of the principles to strengthen the thinking and learning process.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI also offers data-driven analytics, empowering educators with valuable insights into student progress and areas that require attention. This information helps in making informed decisions, refining teaching strategies, and identifying areas that may require additional attention.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

two to three keywords, color/contrast change, or a symbol that attracts attention to area of the screen ). It helps concentrate student attention by emphasizing crucial information, therefore targeting certain components of the movie for processing in working memory. Spencer Willis, Jr.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). This “think-pair-share” approach not only fostered critical thinking but also ensured everyone had a voice.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

In a large classroom, instructors often face challenges in creating personal connections with students, maintaining attention, and ensuring active participation (Wang & Calvano, 2022). This “think-pair-share” approach not only fostered critical thinking but also ensured everyone had a voice.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Classrooms using effective teaching methods that create engaging activities and promote active learning and critical thinking are more likely to result in deeper learning (Fink, 2013). This approach ensures even quieter participants receive your undivided attention at some point.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

With my fourth graders, I routinely used a popular game called Oregon Trail to teach not only westward expansion but about the problem solving and critical thinking employed by many early Americans. Teaching no longer involves a knowledgeable teacher who lectures from the front of the room.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. These questions can elicit more engagement, critical thinking, and collective inquiry among colleagues. Did it make a difference?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Classrooms using effective teaching methods that create engaging activities and promote active learning and critical thinking are more likely to result in deeper learning (Fink, 2013). This approach ensures even quieter participants receive your undivided attention at some point.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A professor or educator can spend a lecture or semester teaching the curriculum, but if you ask ChatGPT what the biggest takeaways from the war are, it’s possible and likely a learner is provided with even more context and historical facts via the chatbot than what is possible for an instructor to cover from a set curriculum.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

All learning styles are important and need to be acknowledged, but I have found when information is presented visually, both faculty attention spans increase and interests tend to peak participation. These questions can elicit more engagement, critical thinking, and collective inquiry among colleagues. Did it make a difference?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

When I went to school, it was all about the 3Rs, desks in rows, and a teacher lecturing from the front of the room. Don’t most students learn best with reading and lecturing? In this way, teachers support higher-order thinking like critical thinking and problem-solving. Where are the resources? 24-hour help.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. I’m not 18 and going into a big lecture hall.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

By designing active learning experiences, students’ engagement, critical thinking, and overall learning outcomes are optimized (Allen & Katz, 2023). Delivery strategies Lecture and discussion Classroom strategies are as important and must provide an inclusive learning environment. i] [link] [ii] Díez, A.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

By designing active learning experiences, students’ engagement, critical thinking, and overall learning outcomes are optimized (Allen & Katz, 2023). Delivery strategies Lecture and discussion Classroom strategies are as important and must provide an inclusive learning environment. i] [link] [ii] Díez, A.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. AR and VR, for instance, brings a fun element to a lesson and can help students develop critical thinking skills.

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