eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning approaches like lectures and textbooks to innovative methodologies such as active learning and technology integration, these methods aim to promote effective and dynamic learning experiences. Critical Thinking : Encouraging critical thinking skills is paramount in education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Students can explore a diverse range of information online, from scholarly articles to instructional videos, fostering independent research skills and critical thinking. This access expands their learning beyond traditional textbooks. Moreover, technology enhances collaboration among students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Online platforms and learning management systems are other examples of technologies that improve student learning and enable teachers to share resources, assignments, and feedback seamlessly. This fosters a more connected and collaborative learning environment, even beyond the physical classroom.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 28, 2024

This level of flexibility ensures that learning isn’t just confined to the classroom but can happen whether they’re on the bus, taking a walk, exercising, or doing their chores. Audio content can grab students’ attention in a way that using textbooks alone can’t.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

This real-time engagement fosters deeper understanding and promotes critical thinking skills. Furthermore, classroom learning promotes social interaction and collaboration, allowing students to learn from their peers through group activities, discussions, and projects.

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Learning Styles Attention Discussions Textbooks 130

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When used strategically, technology transforms the classroom into a more engaging, effective, and collaborative learning environment. How does technology help students learn? Learners benefit most from technology when it is used to enhance engagement, provide personalized learning experiences, and foster collaboration.

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Technology Learning Styles Attention Communication 130

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we look to 2024, we should aim to integrate real-world problem solving that will encourage critical thinking and collaboration at an early age. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. I see that continuing in the future.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Mind maps were originally designed to improve creativity, organization, and critical thinking, allowing free association and loose connections (Buzan).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 27, 2023

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. Mind maps were originally designed to improve creativity, organization, and critical thinking, allowing free association and loose connections (Buzan).

Group work 98

Group work Culture Instructors Languages 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

To kick off the project, I used ChatGPT to generate an outline based on positive psychology as aligned with the textbook chapters and student-led ideas and topics. The students were then divided into groups, where each group received a dedicated workspace in our learning management system, D2L.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 107

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

To kick off the project, I used ChatGPT to generate an outline based on positive psychology as aligned with the textbook chapters and student-led ideas and topics. The students were then divided into groups, where each group received a dedicated workspace in our learning management system, D2L.

Collaborative Research 91

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 91

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we look to 2024, we should aim to integrate real-world problem solving that will encourage critical thinking and collaboration at an early age. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. I see that continuing in the future.

Gamification 130

Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130