eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that makes sense–as systemic as some issues facing our education system are, every school, class, and student is unique. There’s an entire school of thought on this. If traditional teaching methods reliant on textbooks, lecture, and rote memorization have proven anything, it’s that one size definitely does not fit all.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

According to a Gallup Student Poll (2015) of public school children, 47% report being “disengaged” at school. Student engagement is “ the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.”

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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). I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging.

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

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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. times more likely to say that they get excellent grades and do well in school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.

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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!

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

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

However, nearly half of teachers say they would be more likely to incorporate play in their classroom if they had support from school administration (46 percent) and parents (45 percent). On top of that, almost 80 percent of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Their input is vital in order to guide schools toward practices that will be the most beneficial to students. Whenever possible, schools should integrate these conversations into professional learning opportunities and staff meetings so educators can engage with one another and collaboratively develop an action plan.

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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!

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Key points: A love of learning can lead to a lifetime of learning How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum Here’s how schools can better support neurodiverse students For more news on instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Curiosity is a fountain of opportunity for all educators.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

AR/VR in K–12: Schools Use Immersive Technology for Assistive Learning. Schools have a duty to attend to all students’ needs, but it can be difficult to create a curriculum that addresses every student, especially as an increasing number of schools experience overcrowding. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 08/22/2019 - 08:25.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. The pandemic brought even more attention to this issue. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. UNIVERSE is built to work on any platform, so it doesn't matter if you or the school district have the money to buy a set of VR goggles.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. A schools overall reputation matters, but whats more important is whether it has strong programs in your field of interest. Does this college offer the right programs for my career goals?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Yet, even after three years in this role at my current school, there are a handful of teachers who are still hesitant to allow students to use devices and the powerful apps and resources they contain. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!” This rang true with me.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While K-12 schools and higher-ed institutions have spent considerable effort adhering to accessibility standards (and should be applauded for that effort), one in four lawsuits in education center around accessibility. They offer real-time summarized transcripts for lectures, meetings, and live events, either remotely or in the classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development. Additionally, remote education can lead to distractions in a home environment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

And just as a new school year is set to begin, a new study raises fresh concerns about potential downsides of multitasking during class. The problem arises when the student starts dividing his attention between taking notes and other tasks, such as texting or watching a video. They also took periodic tests and a final exam.

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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. See also von Freymann and Cuffe (2020) for six reasons to choose community service projects.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

A new proposal out of Georgia is betting it is, and supporters hope schools will implement it soon. In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. The school is drawing attention. Students who excel move on.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

1 Look one level deeper, however, and the way schools use their LMSs will undergo shifts that have big implications for whether their edtech has a transformative impact. 2 For reasons I explain below, the software-directed instructional model is superior when netted out, but most schools wont use it next year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In other words, a professor at this new type of university might assign some lecture videos by an MIT professor as homework, but then the local professor would lead discussions of the material and add his or her own perspective in in-person class sessions. And they’re not the first MIT professors to dream up new types of universities.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

His latest book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order , is almost two books in one: It tells the story of the development of artificial intelligence and why we should pay attention to this work. But the lecturing should be done by the masters. One person lecturing to a crowd of 1,000? In the past 2.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2021

Engage Faculty in the Decision to Go Online “If faculty don’t participate, you won’t have a program,” says Lisa Springer, provost at LIM College, a small Manhattan fashion-management school. Earlier, Springer was associate dean at NYU’s School of Professional Studies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Microsoft Translator , a translation service, students in classes and lectures can get automated transcriptions on their mobile and desktop devices. NTID is one of RIT’s nine schools. Founded in 2005, the Edinburgh, Scotland-based company claims on its website that it serves “over 50 top universities for lecture transcription.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

Kevin Werbach, Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania The fears about not having enough material to fill a class, or in getting behind with what you planned, are common. In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time. That being said, Schons reflection-during-action is indeed being practiced in nursing education, medical education, acting schools, and professional sports.

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