Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey. Do you love history? Read more from Emily here. Do you love puppets?

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Reading Essay History Science 170

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. Maloney: Part of it is recognizing that higher ed has had a history of change throughout its entire existence. We also have an opportunity not to get mired in that long history.

Education 212

Education History Art Essay 212

Edsurge

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.

English 200

English Culture Syllabus Writing 200

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Teachers dedicate a huge amount of time and energy to helping students learn and love reading, but it’s tough to give each student one-on-one attention in a busy classroom,” said Ray Lyons, eSpark’s VP of Product. “To earn admittance to their top college, students need to stand out from the crowd.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. His low level of engagement stemmed from his struggle with attention and his lack of confidence. His insecurities led him to believe that he couldn’t do his work well.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 135

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. The researchers conclude by calling for greater attention to how storytime planning and execution are design-focused processes.

Schools 246

Schools Languages Language Reading 246

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. Should their essays have a thesis statement? She promises to share an example essay soon. Todd has focused his own research on art history.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As director of the futures initiative at CUNY's Graduate Center, Davidson studies and thinks a lot about cultural history and technology. Davidson: In 1869, a major attention-grabbing article appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. At least, that's what professor Cathy Davidson writes in her latest book, “The New Education.”.

Education 141

Education Intelligence History Essay 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Assessing student learning used to be as simple as giving a test that consisted of multiple choice, True/False, short answer, and/or essay. Habits, templates, and routines are much easier than reinventing the assessment wheel but a tool that results in passionate students committed to lifelong learning gets my attention. Google Forms.

Learning 104

Learning Essay Students Testing 104

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

The History of Citizen Science Science before the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was carried out by interested individuals whose curiosities in the natural world were self-funded. Pay close attention to the prerequisites such as time requirements, travel, equipment, training period, and prior experience.

Science 144

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more? essay, American Chemical Society. Example could be applied to a composition assignment. References Bradbury, N.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. History class, we are studying Reconstruction. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

After four decades of such reflection, I am keenly aware that understanding effective teaching strategies, the students I serve, and how learning works requires my constant attention. For example, before an exam, I discuss how and why I would prepare differently for a multiple-choice versus an essay exam.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Investors and founders packed into the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. But what brought them together was wanting to give teachers an “extra pair of hands”—for instance, a teacher can ask the assistant to give the class a math problem so that she can momentarily divert her attention to one student. “A

Multiple Choice Questions 109

Multiple Choice Questions Testing Questions Essay 109

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

History Timeline Instructor draws a timeline while adding hand-drawn pictures and text to mark specific points on the timeline with verbal explanation. Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more? essay, American Chemical Society. Example could be applied to a composition assignment. References Bradbury, N.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example : A history teacher uses an AI-powered chatbot to answer students’ basic questions about historical facts, freeing up time to engage in deeper discussions and critical analysis with students during class. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1). Opinion | How higher ed can adapt to the challenges of AI. 2024, June 5).

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example : A history teacher uses an AI-powered chatbot to answer students’ basic questions about historical facts, freeing up time to engage in deeper discussions and critical analysis with students during class. The Review | Essay. 2024, July 1). Opinion | How higher ed can adapt to the challenges of AI. 2024, June 5).

Ethics 111

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Thanksgiving information –history, more. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Teaching a three-week course in keyboarding at the end of the school year, where class time is used to teach typing skill s while completing an authentic project, will excite students who thought they had to slog through another unit in American History or Calculus. Cyberbullying.

Activities 88

Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Minecraft Education Edition: Useful for collaborative projects in history, science, and architecture. Surprise and novelty, too, activate attention centers in the brain, helping information stick. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Even short physical activities can reset attention spans.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing? We just brought them back and kind of brought them to everyone’s attention and created more awareness around them and just added some of those AI pieces, but not fully changing. Dr. Brandee Ramirez Know and then, you know, you’ve got your research history.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

And once she had the attention of the conference goers, she used the opportunity to announce the crowdfunding campaign for Wayfinding Academy. But as Jones explains in a recent essay she posted on LinkedIn , all of Wayfindings initial class were predominantly white.

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Grades Discussions Assignments Curriculum 119

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

But what is that value for students to continue to have a safe space or a space in which they are welcomed, to feel safe about who they are and their history or their identities? Affirmative action, diversity efforts are not about fixing history. And this is a part of just modern history. One aspect of it is race and ethnicity.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

They all felt compelled to direct their attention away from their classmates and towards the front of the room, eyes focused not on their laptops but on the instructor (me) and the main screen I projected. We talked about readings about Mobile Learning , including an essay I published back in 2004 anticipating the mobile future.

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Mobile Devices Learning Essay Internet 140

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

aren’t adequately teaching about the history of inequality and how it has come to manifest itself in this country. Smith is not one for silence ( he delivered a TED talk about the “danger of silence” in 2014 , in fact) and has used digital venues including Twitter to encourage others to speak up and recognize how history shapes the present.

Technology 126

Technology History Learning Writing 126

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

There is a very long and very clear history of scholarship that shows that many common approaches have minimal or no effect on student writing growth, and it is so widely disliked by students and ignored by many teachers that Brock Haussamen (2003) famously called it the skunk at the garden party of the language arts (p.

Language 69

Language Languages English Writing 69

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course? Basically, I track the development of human experience and human history, using the vampire as the frame to make it fun. If you’re not entertaining students enough, they’re not going to pay attention to you. We talk about anthropology.

Education 132

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 132

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 11, 2025

The five-year strike was one of the most pivotal labor movements in United States history, ultimately leading to better pay and benefits for agricultural workers and the formation of the United Farm Workers. He became well-known in the 1960s for spearheading the Delano Grape Strike and teaming with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

Teaching 93

Teaching Social Studies History Writing 93

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Among the top results: a slick animated video called “Problems in Public Education,” a rant arguing that all public education “kills creativity,” and a video essay titled “public ‘education’ has become indoctrination and distraction.” And that was just on the first page. What can professors do about such portrayals?

Peer Review 127

Peer Review Education Essay Attention 127

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Along with all that attention, though, came plenty of criticism. And then in the actual selection process, we had them write a series of essays and we had them talk about not only their interests in the program, but the experiences in their lives that prompted them to want to engage in this kind of program.

Culture 167

Culture Intellectual Development Attention Essay 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Her application essay opened with an anecdote from her sophomore English class: She noticed that every author on the class reading list was a “dead, straight, white male,” as she summarized it. Our job as educators is to encourage students to research and engage intellectually in longer histories of social injustice.

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Teachers History Students English 163