eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The internet has become an invaluable resource for students and teachers alike, offering a vast repository of educational materials, research, and collaborative tools. Students from lower-income families or rural areas may lack access to devices and reliable high-speed internet, exacerbating educational inequalities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. I value my lecture time,” says Wooten. “I Review key terms and definitions. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. None of them partnered with OPMs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Since their glory days only a few years ago, MOOCs have been on the receiving end of much critique, and the false promises of democratizing education through simply connecting to the internet have been severely slashed. such as Coursera, EdX, Udacity and FutureLearn. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley?18

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2017

Guest author, Emily Clearly over at mysimpleshow has ten more reasons why videos are a great educational tool for your teaching: Videos are in line with the technological times and can be accessed on the Internet at any point, from wherever you are in the world. Education is something that will never go out of style.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Use Striking Photos All communication begins with getting the listener’s attention, and thus visuals should be striking and memorable. Instead, think of a way of illustrating the concept that will get the viewer’s attention. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” Both images are striking.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Hardware, internet availability and connectivity, alongside learning materials to support instruction—from age-appropriate books to paper, pencils, glue and scissors—vary substantially from household to household, just as the capacity to provide and respond to these needs varies from one district to the next. Let’s be frank.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Use Striking Photos All communication begins with getting the listener’s attention, and thus visuals should be striking and memorable. Instead, think of a way of illustrating the concept that will get the viewer’s attention. When I started teaching, I thought teaching was lecturing.” Both images are striking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

As of 2015, 94% of K-12 students had a computer in their home, with 61% of the same demographic having internet access as well. Utilizing modern audio technology allows an incredible amount of versatility to when lectures can be accessed. Helping to Hear. Education doesn’t stop outside of the classroom. Solving Seeing.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Do a quick internet search for “whole-brain teaching” and it will pull up a string of videos of young students repeating words back to a teacher in unison, waving hands or conducting other movements, and turning to their neighbor every few minutes to share. In some ways, these classrooms look like organized chaos.

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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021). link] Vallée, A.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. For instance, teachers may consider replacing one-sided lectures with more group discussion, or they may make sure to ask follow-up questions to students’ answers.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With so much competition for their attention, what’s the magic to reaching this elusive target audience? This has had a profound impact on Reardon’s teaching, freeing him from having to be at the front of the classroom so that he can interact with his students while he lectures. Internet searches: 21%. District staff: 34%.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Moore couldn’t control the weather, but he could turn his attention to challenges where he would have impact. This included improving the wireless internet, ensuring access to mobile devices and a high standard of tech and training support. Learners at Bentley are no longer held back by limited resources.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

It’s called Deakin University, and started about 40 years ago—before the internet really got going—when distance education often meant sending lessons through snail mail. Deakin has also gotten a lot of attention for its personal assistant, Deakin Genie, which is based on the same AI system, Watson, that won on Jeopardy.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2023

If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as you. In fact, a recent study showed that in a HyFlex class, online students were more engaged and felt it was easier to ask questions during lectures compared to in-person students (University of Copenhagen, 2021). link] Vallée, A.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

We typically talk about the “last-mile” – the connection between the larger Internet network and neighborhoods and communities. 5G can provide a cost-effective way to deliver fiber-like Internet speeds to schools, through Fixed Wireless Access (FWA). –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School.

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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. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Welcome to the Hidden Curriculum of the Internet We often imagine learning as something that happens within school walls, books opened, teachers talking, students taking notes. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning. That means higher attention spans and deeper retention.

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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? Teachers invite students to an internet-based classroom and run the lesson plan from their snow-bound home. Where are the resources?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2018

Start by sharing information in ways that don’t rhyme with “‘PowerPoint” or “lecture” Then, for activities like volunteer sign-up, Q&A, and exploring the class, use the exciting digital tools that students will use to achieve their goals. So how is this accomplished? Introduce the class page.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When COVID-19 forced college courses online, Stuart Middleton, a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, was having trouble connecting with his remote students. teens say they use the service, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey , and TikTok recently surpassed Google as the most-visited site on the internet.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. The students today have so much more access, and it's not just because of the Internet. It's the Internet combined with these human connections of these decades of other alums who have come through, who really want to help them.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

At that moment, a top-down approach to create a “Campus of the Future” was devised by adopting smart signage within lecture halls, hallways, athletic facilities, and executive conference rooms to transform the entire campus. Under his leadership, CCHS was one of the first schools to implement Samsung’s Flip 3 whiteboard in 2021.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Maria Bot can only access a pre-approved sliver of the Internet. Building ‘Rapport’ Listening to a professor lecture can be boring.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

The incident is bringing attention to a complaint that has sprung up at other campuses in the last couple of years. Still many students resist the change, arguing that they can look up what they need on the internet without a textbook at all. What’s Going on at ASU? And I have an A in the class,” she adds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Or the internet. Or at least make more evident which skills their lectures, assignments and projects impart. And yet every once in a while, someone has an idea, puts it to the test and invents something new—which then becomes indispensable. Like the steam engine. Or the telephone. Not that college professors are all eager to try this.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Higher education has not been particularly embracive to new technologies, at least not since the invention of the internet. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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Technology Teaching Exams Intelligence 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

High-quality curricular materials that emphasize historical thinking skills, such as the Stanford History Education Group’s “Think Like a Historian” framework, are now readily available on the Internet. The students who have been paying attention will link that date to the phrase “all men are created equal.”

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History Teaching Social Studies Textbooks 129

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But sometimes, these skills are just as important as a doctor’s attention to a patient’s needs. His attitude and attention helped snap my grandmother out of her detached state and engaged her in a conversation. A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But sometimes, these skills are just as important as a doctor’s attention to a patient’s needs. His attitude and attention helped snap my grandmother out of her detached state and engaged her in a conversation. A physician attends to a patient with their medical knowledge, training, and experience.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98