Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. No matter how interesting the teacher, sometimes it can be hard for students to focus for very long on a lecture.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Research indicates that students thrive in environments where teachers act as facilitators rather than mere dispensers of knowledge.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge 4. Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2. Create personal relationships 3.

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High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture. In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures? The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours.

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Lecturing Questions Learning Attention 208

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. What might make it hard for a student to process information presented verbally in a lecture or mini-lesson? Taking time to identify barriers in our design work is critical.

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Blended Learning Learning Lecturing Motivation 518

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. Pre-video Activity Teachers can use the pre-video activity to pique student interest, tap into their prior knowledge, or encourage them to brainstorm or make predictions.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. Where are they seeing growth in their skills and/or content knowledge?

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It requires sincerity, honesty, hard work, expansive knowledge on the subject matter, and sometimes chutzpah. It is a Sisyphean struggle for teachers to hold students’ attention; thus, teachers should devise various tactics to attract and sustain the attention of students until the very end of class. Can you find it?

Attention 122

Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 122

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. The more you treat education as a game, the more likely students are to pay attention and be engaged in class. Students can be too easily distracted to hang on most instructors’ every word.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

Blended Learning 469

Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 469

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible. Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. Better engagement means they’ll learn more and retain the knowledge longer.

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Learning Styles Participation Hybrid Learning Attention 317

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? Or, if you’re Maynard Kereke (Hip Hop M.D.),

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 303

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. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

Critical Thinking 311

Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 311

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. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

It requires sincerity, honesty, hard work, expansive knowledge on the subject matter, and sometimes chutzpah. It is a Sisyphean struggle for teachers to hold students’ attention; thus, teachers should devise various tactics to attract and sustain the attention of students until the very end of class. Can you find it?

Attention 101

Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 101

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. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

Students 285

Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 285

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.

Skills 285

Skills Gamification Learning Intelligence 285

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Questions such as these can help guide the conversation: What do you need to learn about AI, and how can you gain that knowledge? Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. What potential benefits and challenges might AI present to teaching and learning?

Intelligence 339

Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 339

Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Teachers can incorporate culturally relevant materials, celebrate multicultural events, and encourage students to share their cultural perspectives and knowledge. Recognizing and valuing their diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences fosters a sense of belonging and enhances engagement in the classroom.

English 274

English Blended Learning Languages Language 274

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. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They offer real-time summarized transcripts for lectures, meetings, and live events, either remotely or in the classroom. Students with Attention Deficit Disorder, for instance, often find that captioning provides the reinforcement they need to stay focused during and after class.

Disabilities 271

Disabilities Lecturing Learning Styles Accessibility 271

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. So the norm is really this paradigm of, you've got a brain, and it's a sort of fixed thing, and you fill it up with knowledge. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting.

Teaching 203

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 203

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

Mobile Devices 212

Mobile Devices Lecturing Quizzes Participation 212

Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2024

Just as our fixed-menu dining scenario highlights the limitations of a one-size-fits-all approach, traditional classroom settings often mimic this model with lectures or mini-lessons where a teacher presents information in a uniform way to all students.

Lecturing 195

Lecturing Reading Knowledge Attention 195

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s that in some cases attention gets really focused on a set of practices that are untested and can distract from the discussion that we have about teaching. And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. It’s not to say that anything that’s new is bad.

Art 167

Art Science Teaching Failure 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. “We are sounding the alarm on the declining civic knowledge among our nation’s youth,” said Carolyn Cawley president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

Math 260

Math Middle School Middle School Essay 260

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. College in the U.S.

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Lecturing Art Internet Ethics 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Knowledge Production The content on MOOCs is typically produced in universities from the U.S. Knowledge Production The content on MOOCs is typically produced in universities from the U.S. This gradually leads to the erasure of local and indigenous knowledges, and does a disservice to humanity as a whole.

Lecturing 167

Lecturing Languages Language Knowledge 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person.

Quizzes 258

Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 258

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

and globe accelerate toward the use of renewable energy to fuel power grids, there is an acute pressure to build an educated workforce and a knowledgeable public who will understand and support these changes. There exist major gaps in teacher knowledge and the availability of curricular tools to support this type of learning.

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Distance Learning Hybrid Learning Accessibility Culture 362

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Yes No Yes, but with careful guidelines set by teachers Δ The printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 15th century, revolutionized the production and sharing of written knowledge. AI frees up teachers time to give more individual attention and students time for more than foundational knowledge attainment.

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Teachers Knowledge Lecturing Blended Learning 163

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2019

Instead, my classmates and I faced an endless loop of lectures, notes and tests. We were forced to fit into a traditional mold of top-down knowledge delivery. If we want to keep their attention, we have to layer systems and connect them. If we want to keep their attention, we have to layer systems and connect them.

Mobile Devices 165

Mobile Devices Instructors Students Attention 165

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2022

But I knew that you had given this interactive lecture many times before—and you knew what you were aiming for. These authors talk about learners being ready to hear deeper explanations of a concept once they have been able to differentiate their knowledge beyond that of novices. Ask questions.

Learning 193

Learning Lecturing Questions Attention 193

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 17, 2022

Based on my experience, this builds engagement overall because students know that they need to pay attention as there are quizzes at regular intervals. . Record lectures so students can review them at their convenience. Have students complete interactive activities and exercises online. –Image credit Deposit Photos.

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Exams Technology Quizzes Lecturing 159