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NOVEMBER 24, 2023

District leaders can supplement those guidelines with training programs that offer explicit, systematic approaches to teaching reading, or attend a webinar series from education technology partners that offers data-driven suggestions for literacy curricula.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. The face is a massive draw—it’s a magnet for attention,” Stull says. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.”

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Students in Mark Marino’s Writing 340 class at the University of Southern California say the professor always walks into the classroom with a smile, and always begins by giving out carrots. Fellow students write reviews of what it might be like to experience those life-swapping hours. It could be similar to Dad jokes,” he quips. “He

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Now in its 25th Demo Day, the Silicon Valley accelerator has created a machine for turning fledgling ideas into businesses that get investors salivating—and writing checks. Key to winning over a learner’s attention, he adds, is breaking down the courses into digestible chunks. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Analytical thinking Creative thinking Resilience, flexibility, and agility Motivation and self-awareness Curiosity and lifelong learning Technological literacy To prepare students for this type of workforce, educators must design impactful learning opportunities that require the use of these AI skills.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Secretaries of Education, from both Democratic and Republican administrations. The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners have shown up lacking some of the basic skills and competencies that educators and school leaders had previously come to expect. We don’t always expect that.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The FBI has released a public service announcement warning educators and parents that edtech can create cybersecurity risks for students. And while she thinks it’s “great” that the FBI is bringing more attention to this issue, she wishes the public service announcement had also addressed another crucial challenge.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. Think of programs that can automatically generate suggestions or scores for students based on their writing. Sometimes it’s not even that actual writing process that’s causing students the challenge.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, not everyone feels the same about the famous (or in some people’s opinion, infamous) writing style guide, which is over 50 years old. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009, Geoffrey K. She views it as a suggested style guide for how to write in an engaging voice.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres a disconnect between what we know is really critical and then what were paying attention to, says Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and author of a new book about the essential role of relationships in healthy human development. Screens are replacing in-person, authentic social interactions.

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MARCH 22, 2023

In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For many educators, being asked to “find time for themselves” is both impossible and, in itself, stress inducing when finding time is not a real option. We give most attention to the Self but we must place more attention onto the Group and eventually the System. Sean Slade, 2021.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

As I checked in with one student who appeared to be working quietly, it turned out he had carefully solved the first problem, only to write guesses down for the rest. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. Why can’t these types of experiences be more common in schools?

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Mike Caulfield: One of the primary things you're doing when you're reading on the internet is you're trying to decide if something's worth your attention or not. In traditional models we've often taught students that the way you solve any problem is by giving it deep critical attention. Information is abundant.

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MAY 27, 2020

The spectrum of crisis distance learning ranged from ‘drive-by’ course material pickups to telephone check-ins to haphazard online lesson plans and ad-hoc video conferences, all of which can be considered a low-fidelity migration to support continuity,” the authors write. Below are summaries of the four scenarios the authors lay out.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The researchers looked at dozens of skills people use in their jobs, such as writing and reasoning, and then analyzed the potential for new AI tools to either supplant or support humans in those tasks. And he stressed that while colleges should pay attention, the changes to these fields and their related workplaces won’t happen overnight. “It

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OCTOBER 26, 2021

But in traditional higher education, we had better start paying attention to these folks and stop writing them off. And they're paying attention to what we do, so we need to pay attention to what they do, or else we're going to be completely overtaken by them. They're no longer a joke.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

All of this stuff really draws teachers’ attention. And so you have a group of kids getting a lot of attention that have high needs, and then you have maybe 12 other kids who are managing their own affairs. So yeah, with all that, the teachers had more attention to spread. They expect a lot of adult attention. It just is.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Because attention is a limited resource and kids are spending too much of it distracted by their phones. James Clear, who writes about habits and decision-making also discusses this. In his book, “Atomic Habits,” he writes about habits in four stages: cues, cravings, responses and rewards. I’ve recently changed my stance.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Now, she says, she feels like she has most students’ attention during classes since she no longer has to compete with buzzing devices. “In As a teacher, I need to make sure that I have an engaging lesson that will keep their attention and help them to learn and help them to continue to want to be engaged.”

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

I was a designated English learner in the first grade, primarily due to my inability to read at the expected fluency levels determined by the California English Language Development Test (CELDT), an English reading, writing, and speaking assessment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

And they had examples they could have called to mind, such as the metaverse, a high-tech concept for a virtual world that promised to revolutionize education before calming expectations. Much of the initial reaction around AI focused on its ability to spit out prose on command, which threatened traditional writing instruction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And he spent months writing his review of Egan’s book — a hefty summary that clocks in at more than 23,000 words. For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

This transformation responds directly to one of education’s most persistent challenges–maintaining student engagement in an increasingly distraction-filled world. Modern students require interactive and stimulating content to sustain their attention and deepen their learning.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. They (rightfully) paid attention to trauma and marginalization but missed the joy, creativity and production of BIPOC culture.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. In her research, she found a noteworthy amount of attention paid to coaching mentors, but an absence of training provided to mentees. in my living room.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z. Is it essential by the end of the term?

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MARCH 31, 2021

Students learn best when they study real ballot initiatives during an election year or work with journalism professors to write their own editorials for the local paper. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Can our students, teachers and caregivers—especially those experiencing it for the first time—navigate web browsers and technology? Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. That’s especially true for our learners who experience challenges to sustained attention when in the physical classroom.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She writes of remaining diligent and patient in her pursuit of establishing new norms in the classroom: “In my professorial role I had to surrender my need for immediate affirmation of successful teaching (even though some reward is immediate) and accept that students may not appreciate the value of a certain standpoint or process straightaway.”

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention. Okaaaay,” I called them to attention. “I The skills I want my students to leave the classroom with are not necessarily how to identify the eight parts of speech, analyze Shakespeare, or write a seven-paragraph argumentative essay. The timer went off. Adams, what are we doing today?”

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MARCH 17, 2020

will require your attention. Lesson videos or prompts in the following curricular areas: reading, math, writing, and social studies. Have your child help draw pictures or write labels so they can see the plan for the day. Emergent Writing. Draw pictures and write letters to friends and family. Focus on self care.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams.

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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. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. Ensuring my students have ample time for independent reading and writing.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I write down the anticipated student responses to know when I hear what will allow me to assess student understanding. Since I know this, I write down the directions and expectations in a student-friendly checklist format on all my slides so that students can at least reference them if I am struggling to give coherent directions.

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MAY 3, 2021

Perhaps, in addition to class bonding, their laser-like focus might carry over into the lesson itself, buying him 10 or even 15 minutes of focused attention. The answers are irrelevant, but seeing them come through the chat helps Diy gauge whether students are still paying attention. It was worth a shot, he figured.

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