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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. Calling attention to these common applications can make the topic of AI feel less overwhelming and help students better understand the role that this transformative technology is already playing in their daily lives.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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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. And so colleges spend lots of time focusing on, ‘OK, how do we select the brains that'll absorb the most with admissions and tests and such?’ What things do we cover?’

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JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. 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. Do I need this? Is this important to me?

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APRIL 3, 2018

It’s a question as frustrating as a hangnail, asked virtually every time I give a public lecture on teen brain development. Worried about attention spans? In my most recent book “Attack of the Teenage Brain,” I give an example of papers from two separate research groups examining video games and attentional states. Then I pause.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

The study , published in the journal Educational Psychology, found that when students divide attention between electronic devices and a classroom lecture, they still followed the lecture in the moment, but that long-term retention was reduced, resulting in lower grades on unit and final exams.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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JANUARY 20, 2020

In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning. Can I make them laugh?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Then, they find or create digital content, objective tests, and performance tasks aligned to those learning objectives, which they post to an LMS. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person. 4, 2020, [link].

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Keeping lecture notes, study guides, and other resources well-organized saves time and reduces the frustration of searching for materials during study sessions.

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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. Additionally, you can provide supplemental resources, such as links to online study guides or practice tests.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In this system, students choose from a menu of content delivery options (textbook, downloadable study guides, lectures) and interaction options (in-person or online). Creating modules, one step at a time In 2002, Robertson began to “chunk” his long lectures into short videos, each focusing on a specific topic.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The pandemic is changing the way tests and quizzes are conducted at colleges across the country, with the rapid adoption of new tools that proponents say catch cheating, but in ways that many students say amount to an unacceptable invasion of their privacy. In that model, colleges are typically charged on a per-test basis.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

The VIS uses technology to show visual symbols, maintain children’s attention, and provide compelling multimedia language instruction. While this product did not work as well for this particular application, he explained, he is working on testing how Google Home might work in this situation.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I I kind of felt like there were these little cracks in the edifice every now and then where I would give just these great lecture courses, [and] I’d have students who were engaged, you could see it in their eyes.

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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. to clarify a key point while burning the midnight oil studying for a test.

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APRIL 7, 2019

Instead, my classmates and I faced an endless loop of lectures, notes and tests. 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. Coming from another country, I had expected the U.S.

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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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JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. Since those early days of testing iPods, the small, private, Catholic school earned a long-standing designation as an Apple Distinguished School.

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JUNE 26, 2018

There are actually tests you can do to look at the ways the brain is very different to how they looked a generation ago. Is it ADHD if they can’t pay attention to a boring lecture? That’s not ADHD, that’s just a boring lecture. Usually, you learn everything during the course of a semester, take a test, and then it’s over.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article will focus on the latter and highlight some field-tested approaches and assessments for maximizing instructional effectiveness to improve student achievement. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Provide variety in assignments.

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APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Utilizing modern audio technology allows an incredible amount of versatility to when lectures can be accessed. Oftentimes, lectures will be entirely delivered in audio, causing there to be little to no loss in learning from the loss of the visual aspect. Helping to Hear. Education doesn’t stop outside of the classroom.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes. Including videos in your lesson plan is a great way to modernize traditional lectures or PowerPoint presentations. In Your Lesson Plan. To Assess Your Students. To Flip Your Classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He says test data back that up. The school is drawing attention. Arthur’s panel proposed one change that could make it easier: Give the Georgia Milestones Tests, which are administered in the spring, more often. The pass rates in social studies and science were each 9 percentage points higher.

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JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article will focus on the latter and highlight some field-tested approaches and assessments for maximizing instructional effectiveness to improve student achievement. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. Provide variety in assignments.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” While Elementary schools across MSD can feel proud of the test results, at the middle and high school level, growth is harder to see.

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MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. In the meantime, CoCo’s venture-backed counterparts are testing out their own theories on what motivates students.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

I use a daily quiz that has a two-fold purpose: first, it tests the students’ knowledge of the day’s reading material; and second, it provides a focus for the lecture and activities scheduled that day in class. I incorporate the day’s lecture materials into the review of answers. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Practice Retrieval : Actively recalling information from memory through techniques like self-testing or flashcards strengthens memory recall and retention. While these methods may draw attention to key points, they do not necessarily promote understanding or retention. What are 4 study strategies?

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MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Educational media is at an inflection point. These efforts are not cheap.

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