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DECEMBER 4, 2023

What questions keep them up at night? Asking these questions will help students navigate their potential major and avoid disappointment in the future. Oftentimes, students enroll in degrees out of a misguided belief that some degrees are more practical than others. Which classes do they enjoy the most in high school?

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JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Student-centered approaches such as active learning , in which faculty facilitate opportunities for small-group collaboration and minimize lecture time, have been linked to improved student performance. Another version of this approach supplements large lectures with smaller interactive sections.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced. Traditional classes focus on teacher lecture; constructivism focuses on personal inquiry and class discussion. Learning is constructed, not acquired, and is based on the fullness of a person’s individual lifetime of learning.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.” It is not always easy to do.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning. While MOOC pedagogies are continually improving, little attention is paid to the question of who or what shapes global knowledge.

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APRIL 16, 2019

The question is a philosophical one, as some people argue that a theory called Baumol’s cost disease, which states that some labor-intensive sectors do not reduce labor costs even when new technology comes in, explains why the cost of college keeps going up faster than other areas of the economy.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. On the show, individuals read aloud the beliefs and struggles that guide their daily lives. The popular NPR program titled “This I Believe,” espouse this ethos on a weekly basis.

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MAY 16, 2024

To your point though, more broadly, I think one of the issues is that we can no longer assume that it's a shared belief structure that we all think being in the classroom is the thing to do post-pandemic. Now, whether this is also something that can be tracked socioeconomically, I think that's an important question to ask.

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APRIL 16, 2020

As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching. If we can’t provide testable and falsifiable answers to these questions, then we have a sharp limit on how much we can improve our teaching.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” Lack of variety -not related to the content but the format: video, text, website, lecture, and so on. . He has a Masters in Ed from Penn State University (any Nittany Lion fans out there?)

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Then he graciously agrees to respond to a set of questions she and her colleagues hoped they would get the chance to ask him. All rights reserved. Here’s a great story. No, there is one more.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. The students, broken up into groups around tables, considered the question. question answered afterward. And when you put compelling questions in front of them, they respond with excitement and engagement.”

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MARCH 15, 2023

While a common question for folks in public education, I was shocked that my students wondered if I paid for classroom furniture myself. They represent the beautiful diversity of cultures, beliefs, abilities and gifts that come with the knowledge and appreciation of our histories. Did they feel that I discouraged them from movement?

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MARCH 2, 2023

One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” Classes aren’t led by a lone professor lecturing at the front of the classroom, but by teams of educators, with at least three virtual instructors and as many as ten to fifteen assigned to larger classes.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 4, 2024

A graduate student is attending a lecture given by one of her intellectual heroes, the Brazilian educator and theorist Paulo Freire. Then he graciously agrees to respond to a set of questions she and her colleagues hoped they would get the chance to ask him. All rights reserved. Here’s a great story. No, there is one more.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Artifact Type Key Steps Questions for Analysis Next Steps Agenda from class session Read through your agenda and highlight key words, actions, and topics. How did the highlighted words (your findings) compare to your departmental or college vision, belief statement, and/or values? Feedback is only as useful as the questions you ask.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Artifact Type Key Steps Questions for Analysis Next Steps Agenda from class session Read through your agenda and highlight key words, actions, and topics. How did the highlighted words (your findings) compare to your departmental or college vision, belief statement, and/or values? Feedback is only as useful as the questions you ask.

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Feedback Beliefs Lecturing Participation 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! The question that often eludes us is: How? Lining students up in two rows facing each other, I gave them four minutes to discuss their research question with a peer (two minutes each), inviting questions and insights.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I was reviewing punctuation rules with my students, and I had to come to the climax of the lecture: semicolons! The question that often eludes us is: How? Lining students up in two rows facing each other, I gave them four minutes to discuss their research question with a peer (two minutes each), inviting questions and insights.

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Lecturing Interdisciplinary Cognitive Development English 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 22, 2024

I want them to understand that confusion is a necessary step, less toward an absolute answer than toward a next wonderful, engaging, beautiful confusion that is thrilling beyond belief. These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

I want them to understand that confusion is a necessary step, less toward an absolute answer than toward a next wonderful, engaging, beautiful confusion that is thrilling beyond belief. These spaces contain questions that we wish to answer—no, actually, that we feel compelled to answer.

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MARCH 26, 2019

On the second grade playground, kids throw insults back and forth but as they grow up, they learn to show respect even to an attacker by asking questions, starting a conversation, and digging deeper into the cause. In the face of disagreement, ask questions that start a conversation. Chat — don’t lecture.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Preparation and materials needed Before starting the activity, students should receive a 20-30-minute lecture about cultural competency, cultural misunderstandings (language barrier, nonverbal communication), and communication accommodation theory (convergence, divergence, and maintenance). What were the difficulties, if any, this time?

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Preparation and materials needed Before starting the activity, students should receive a 20-30-minute lecture about cultural competency, cultural misunderstandings (language barrier, nonverbal communication), and communication accommodation theory (convergence, divergence, and maintenance). What were the difficulties, if any, this time?

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APRIL 10, 2017

If a student picks an incorrect answer to a question, what he or she sees next may be different from what another student, who picked a different wrong answer, gets. Investors often lecture about the importance of timing to a startup’s success, and how there must already be an existing market ready to adopt a new innovation.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics.

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MAY 2, 2023

My question to the class was then: Do you agree with the output of ChatGPT? She serves as a lecturer in the faculty of education at the Mico University College (a teacher-training institution in Jamaica). Instead of regenerating the response, I thought, Why not build on this opportunity?

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

Neil Browne, Question-Based Critical Thinking Reflecting on my more than five decades of teaching critical thinking, I feel disappointment that I showed so little respect for the multiple pathways to engagement ­­­available to teachers. We are all familiar with the often-irresistible lecturing that captures most classroom time.

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APRIL 10, 2017

It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. I observed that students have different readiness levels, but the way we teach is week-by-week lectures with homework. Kintali’s answer to the evolution of the textbook is.

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. After a little bit of lecture and homework for a couple of weeks, you give an assessment. In a non-mastery system, students move together at a fixed pace.

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