eSchool News

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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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 281

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Josemaria and I share the belief that “…[technology] must be transparent, like a lens; otherwise, it hinders learning.” Consequently, the syllabus can be enlarged when classes take advantage of multimedia means -as it happened. He has a Masters in Ed from Penn State University (any Nittany Lion fans out there?)

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Learning Textbooks Lecturing Syllabus 156

Edsurge

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.

Teaching 175

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 175

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 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. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture. Cover the syllabus later.

Syllabus 110

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 110

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. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture. Cover the syllabus later.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Discussions Beliefs Questions 105