Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. What environmental issue should we pay the most attention to? What advice would you give a first-year teacher about kids your age?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Old and new players are rethinking how, what and where people learn, and, in particular, how to master the digital skills that are increasingly vital to jobs in a widening swathe of industries. Salesforce recently unveiled Trailhead for Students , a free digital learning platform and community.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Blended learning can help! The responses always yield the same results.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. EdSurge connected with Turner to learn about this new world of fragmented attention and what educators can do to reach these increasingly distracted students.

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Edsurge

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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention. Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I And I was like, ‘But I've been here the whole time, and I've actively paid attention and done it.’ We were told on our end, ‘Give them everything.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. Since then, the percentage of adjunct faculty has mushroomed to occupy the vast majority of instructors on many campuses, a deeply troubling dependency on precarious academic workers. Every virtual class is taught by contingent instructors.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. Non-verbal communication adopted by the instructor.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems spearhead this learning revolution by reimagining the tutoring concept, offering interactive and adaptive learning experiences customized to each individual’s learning capabilities. A significant advantage of AI tutoring systems is the personalized learning experiences they can offer students.

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Edsurge

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. Multimedia instruction has to include the instructor,” Andrew Stull, one of the authors of the study, recently told EdSurge.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. For many, the recent leap to remote instruction felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Instead, it is vital that I investigate concrete strategies for greatly increasing students’ involvement in learning. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Most teachers who work in education today have studied — or at least are familiar with — VARK , a learning theory first introduced by Neil Fleming in 1987. VARK suggests that students can best accelerate their knowledge acquisition via one of four core learning styles: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R) or kinesthetic (K).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. Non-verbal communication adopted by the instructor.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The last time I taught in a physical college classroom was in 1999, when my adult students shook off their weariness from a day of working and taking care of their children to pay attention to their classmates and me for three hours. Much has changed since then, as the world of online learning built for working adults has grown.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Stachowiak is host of a long-running podcast called “Teaching in Higher Ed,” and she’s the dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University of Southern California. Think Shorter If it’s hard to hold students’ attention in person, it’s even harder online, says Stachowiak: “You'll want to think about shortening that experience.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Instead, it is vital that I investigate concrete strategies for greatly increasing students’ involvement in learning. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We’ve really learned that the most important thing is to keep people motivated,” says Bozena Pajak, director of the learning science team at Duolingo, a language learning app developer. “We Another way to change motivation is to increase the benefits by making the learning process more rewarding.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead? After legal and administrative fees, about $589,000 will be left and distributed to 1,214 current and former instructors who taught for the company between July 24, 2013 and June 30, 2018.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

To help empower schools and educators with secure e-learning solutions right now, Windstream Enterprise is offering OfficeSuite UC and HD Meeting® virtual classrooms free for 90 days to education customers. OfficeSuite UC e-Learning solutions. HD Meeting virtual classrooms. The free services are available at Windstream Enterprise.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

Online learning is one of the most prevalent modalities in higher education today and has only been made more visible by the COVID pandemic (Costa, Kavouras, Cohen, & Huang, 2021). Higher education campus policies often emphasize safety and crisis prevention interventions in the context of traditional, face-to-face learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An overflowing supply of books, websites, newsletters, podcasts, and videos offer tips, tricks, and strategies to help entrepreneurs manage their time, attention, and priorities. But that advice also applies to online instructors. Be conscientious about your time, attention, and productivity. Focus on one task at a time.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024! What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

A 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers. But Kevin Chu, director of ViewSonic, purports a 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers for any kind of learning that happens online. Teachers love that feature.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

times more likely to say that they get excellent grades and do well in school See related article: MDM solutions and gamification make perfect interactive learning partners In the past decade, students have been inundated with more and more distractions. Students can be too easily distracted to hang on most instructors’ every word.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. In our case, we collaborate with The Virtual High School , who we consider an online learning pioneer. Popp, Ed.D.,

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