Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To add ineffective notetaking to lower content knowledge, fewer opportunities to practice skills in writing and speaking, and, for some, a return to in-person learning after lengthy time spent in online classrooms, presents an even greater hindrance to student learning and success. Some professors already ban phones from their classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Additionally, the model’s capacity to generate creative content can spark curiosity and imagination, stimulating critical thinking and problem-solving skills among students. By offering personalized responses, ChatGPT can cater to individual learning needs, encouraging engagement and enhancing the overall educational experience.

Communication 135

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Education Sciences 12, no. 12 (December 2022): 935.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. For example, spreadsheets should teach critical thinking and data analysis, not Excel or Sheets.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 23, 2015

One ongoing goal of instructors is to encourage engagement and student activity in the classroom. It might sound fun to get on a camera and share your thoughts, but the process students must work through is quite reflective and requires critical thinking. Recording videos can add some spark to the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

As students complete their undergraduate programs and prepare for the professional world, they are expected to bring critical thinking and problem-solving skills with them to the workplace and their communities. Here are a few discussion strategies that have been successful in our college classrooms.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. By integrating dialogue into the classroom, instructors can help students connect academic content to real-life experiences and current events.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2024

Since it is an innate part of human interaction, it can catalyze critical thinking and profound understanding. If conflicts are managed correctly, the conflict can foster empathy, enhance learning outcomes, effective communication, and develop problem-solving skills.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2023

At some point, most instructors were once students, so it’s easy to relate to sitting in a classroom, listening to a lecture, and perhaps feeling your mind wander. By integrating dialogue into the classroom, instructors can help students connect academic content to real-life experiences and current events.

Instructors 96

Instructors Lecturing Syllabus Knowledge 96

Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Video-based learning is a powerful tool for many reasons; one study even notes that “well selected online educational video lectures advance students’ communication on the discourse level, critical thinking, deep learning, and future employability” (Elgeddawy, 2018, 726). Education Sciences 12, no. 12 (December 2022): 935.

Instructors 98

Instructors English Lecturing Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 16, 2024

Since it is an innate part of human interaction, it can catalyze critical thinking and profound understanding. If conflicts are managed correctly, the conflict can foster empathy, enhance learning outcomes, effective communication, and develop problem-solving skills.

Discussions 105

Discussions Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Additionally, the model’s capacity to generate creative content can spark curiosity and imagination, stimulating critical thinking and problem-solving skills among students. By offering personalized responses, ChatGPT can cater to individual learning needs, encouraging engagement and enhancing the overall educational experience.

Communication 111

Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Teach Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

This involves engaging students in activities requiring them to actively process and apply knowledge rather than just passively listening to an instructor. Student-directed Discussions This approach has students taking the lead to drive the classroom discussion. The most widely used strategies use the active learning approach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

Chances are, you entered a classroom using a discussion method known as Socratic Debate , aka Socratic Method, Socratic Circle, or Socratic Inquiry. The Socratic Method requires cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, asking and answering questions that stimulate critical thinking and draw out underlying presumptions.

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