Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Create Collaborative Learning Opportunities : Consider group projects where students can share their insights and strategies for incorporating AI. Further, by centering our teaching practices on critical engagement with AI, we can better prepare our students for a future where these tools are integral to learning and teaching.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world. Teachers must be skilled guides, steering talks, handling conflicts, and helping students find common ground.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Use these easy STEM projects for kids that foster friendly competition and collaborative learning in a free class period or sub day. Easy One-Period Engineering Projects Only have a day or two to finish a class engineering project? Paper Boats: Whose paper boat can stay afloat the longest?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Editor’s note : This story on collaborative learning originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permission. And those benefits are even greater when educators and students learn together, especially as we navigate new tech enablers like AI apps and tools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

While not calling for a return to those rigid structures, in their edWebinar “ Flexible Grouping and Collaborative Learning: Making It Work ,” Dina Brulles, Ph.D., both education consultants, advocated for using groups to assist student learning. This helps students avoid labels and learn to work with all of their peers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

When we built a new 3-story high school building on our former baseball field, we knew that we wanted to incorporate spaces where students could learn and teachers could teach in a very collaborative manner. Those are our collaborative spaces, and they’re where we got to be creative in terms of planning and design.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2015

at no charge, the 36-page guide includes “7 Tips to Your Collaborative Classroom Makeover,” which discusses how teachers can arrange their classroom to promote more collaborative learning. One example of the collaborative lessons within the guide is a social studies lesson for grades three to five, called “Who Can Vote?”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Inaugural PD, collaborative learning event to be held on December 4, 2015. Lightspeed Technologies , a provider of classroom audio solutions, is launching the Lightspeed Learning Academy, which will kick off with a one-day professional development event, and a new leadership webinar series.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2015

science teacher Christopher Landry spends most of his time crouching down like a catcher, talking to his students one-on-one, instead of standing in front of the board. “It’s the idea that the classroom centers on the students,” said Landry, who also uses elements of collaborative learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Teacher tech use continues to grow The survey shows a high percentage of digital adoption and reliance on education technology. “Teachers also acknowledged the critical ability to personalize learning for each student and to accommodate diverse learning needs through technology.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Collaborative learning is an educational environment where students work together in smaller groups to achieve a common goal. Collaborative learning is analogous to the traditional learning model, in which teachers impact knowledge on students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

Lumio by SMART Technologies, a cloud-based learning platform that enhances engagement on student devices, recently announced a new feature for its Spark plan. This new offering integrates AI Assist, an advanced tool designed to save teachers time and elevate student engagement through AI-generated quiz-based activities and assessments.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2023

Unfamiliar with the challenges of integrating edtech into instruction within a remote environment, elementary science teachers struggled to apply best practices—such as three-dimensional instruction, collaborative learning, and hands-on experimentation—into instruction.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

My mind was buzzing with how beautifully this could work in-class, online, or in a blended learning environment. I wanted to support teachers in thinking about leveraging this active reading strategy for any learning landscape, so I created the template below (with permission).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

He’s the author of the book, “Should Robots Replace Teachers?” EdSurge: To some readers in education, even asking the question that titles your book—’should robots replace teachers?’—might But the more I thought about it, it's actually a really neat question because the question could be, ‘could robots replace teachers?’

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. Below are five lessons I learned as an online professor that helped me to adapt to and navigate the challenge of teaching online. #1

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Key points: AI empowers educators to create more adaptive and engaging learning environments Learn about the benefits of AI in education Discover more about why AI in education is essential for learning AI in education is revolutionizing learning by becoming an invaluable aid to teachers. How can AI help teachers?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

As teachers, we know that the physical environment of a classroom can have a significant impact on how students engage with the material and each other. By strategically positioning desks, chairs, and other pieces of furniture, we can create an environment that promotes collaboration, active engagement, and independent thinking.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Peer-to-peer video comments are changing how one district’s teachers think about their practice. While our PD coaching team was excited by the promise of video coaching enhancing teacher support, we were cautious in implementing the new video-powered process. Would teachers benefit from the process in noticeable ways?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We’re about a third of the way into the school year and we know what that means: The dread of parent teacher conferences! the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated. In other words, the traditional parent teacher conference as it once was is both redundant and outdated.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

As a fourth-grade English/language arts and social studies teacher in an elementary collaborative learning magnet program–which is also a NASA Explorer School–I get the challenge of unlocking the minds of 9- and 10-year-olds who are more at home in the STEM subjects than in exploring literature or our country’s history.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Most often, it’s the experiences built upon collaboration, reflection, and active change that make the biggest difference. My time as a classroom educator helped me realize a passion for helping fellow teachers learn and grow. 1 Embrace the experience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

ClassFlow Moments , a new free app for teacher-parent communication, is the latest addition to Promethean ’s collaborative learning software ClassFlow. ClassFlow Moments offers a new way for teachers to connect parents to their students’ classroom activities. ClassFlow Moments is free for parents.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2016

“As Educators and students, we live in a world that is increasingly online, personalized and collaborative,” said Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and a former president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2019

5 Ways K–12 Teachers Can Take a New Approach to Computational Thinking. STEM courses are a central component to K–12 learning , but incorporating STEM into the classroom can be difficult. STEM courses are a central component to K–12 learning , but incorporating STEM into the classroom can be difficult. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

We literally threw out our teachers’ desks,” says Damon Cooper, an English teacher and the director of teaching and learning at CCGS, in New South Wales. We literally threw out our teachers’ desks. Likewise, with screen mirroring technology, we teachers are no longer locked physically.” I become the facilitator.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2015

In an effort to expand teachers’ ability to create unsurpassed collaborative learning environments, Mimio has launched two major updates to its MimioClassroom family of interactive teaching technologies: the MimioProjector 280T touch projector, and expanded device compatibility for the MimioMobile application. “Our

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

This is kind of scary,” she told her teacher, Yvonne Rodriguez, “but fun.” Augmented reality tools, however, reduce the time and effort required to set up gaming activities while allowing teachers to break through the noise and engage students with the type of immersive content they find in their daily lives. Download the app.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 7, 2018

Virtual Classrooms and VR Help Schools Get Qualified Teachers. The teacher pool is getting smaller, and naturally, is getting filled with less qualified candidates, according to public school superintendents. VR Preps Teachers for the Classroom. For student-teachers, it can be a vital training ground. meghan.bogardu….

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s crucial for teachers to create classrooms that are safe places for students to try, experiment and get meaningful feedback that allows them to make sense of what’s going on around them. Every content area teacher, academic or nonacademic, has a role in creating an environment where language learning is facilitated.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

QoreInsights’ platform, Classroom Education Plan (CEP), leverages AI, learning sciences, and real-time classroom data to support teacher growth and student achievement. They emphasize the importance of practical, data-driven strategies tailored to individual classroom needs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Considering neuroscience now suggests that the education system we grew up with has severe limitations, perhaps it’s time we reexamine how we approach teaching and learning, not just for students but for our educators as well. Teachers need professional development conducted with the same progressive techniques we hope to instill in students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It empowers teachers to facilitate collaborative learning. Every teacher and administrator I spoke with mentioned the idea that, in the ideal math classroom, the teacher sets clear expectations and acts as the facilitator while the students collaboratively engage in hands-on activities and games.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Teknikio has released a new collaborative learning kit called Tekniverse, which gives students the ability to make and remake connected smart objects in partnership with their classmates and teacher. Teknikio launched Tekniverse at ISTE 2020 , which is the largest education technology conference in the U.S. About Teknkio.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Ubiquitous access to technology means that acquiring knowledge is no longer dependent solely on a classroom teacher. Consequently, students are not interested in sitting through lectures only to be required to regurgitate information back to the teacher on a test. The case for blending and online learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn. Four years ago, I became an inaugural recipient of a Steelcase Education Active Learning Center Grant.

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