eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

With Google in the classroom, teachers should reimagine lessons. Are any of us better than Google as an instructor? Is there anything value-added vis-à-vis your classroom teaching? Starr, discussing his stepping down as superintendent comments “I ask teachers all the time, if you can Google it, why teach it?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Better Than the Sum of Their Parts: Coupling Course + Learning Space Redesign In 2015, IU launched the Mosaic Initiative to support active learning in all learning spaces, but especially in its active-learning “Mosaic classrooms.” Gone is the “front of the room” that characterizes standard classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. It is very clear to students what they need to do to earn high grades, and we encourage instructors to provide formative assessment feedback so that students can learn from their mistakes and go on to thrive.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That could range from simply giving students a chance to pause and discuss with peers, to role playing, to polling students during class, and more. The data-gathering is fairly simple: The system’s dashboard has a set of “buttons” named with about 20 common classroom practices, such as lecturing, group discussion or video demonstration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Learning Studio classrooms at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Overland Park, KS, technology and learning go hand-in-hand. JCCC Learning Studio classroom.

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