Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, technology can play a pivotal role in shaping the learning experience. Verizon is working to empower educators and students with cutting-edge tools essential for unlocking the full potential of education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. When class is about to start, the teacher can press that lecture mode button, and it will automatically have the students seated, their microphones muted and they have to pay attention. And, with UNIVERSE as a solution, you can bring in an instructor or lecturer from a different country.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Plus, students can use them to submit work digitally.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. Naturally, all this is causing concern among some educators, who see students off-loading the hard work of synthesizing information to AI at a pace never before possible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

And as many parents, teachers and students take to virtual conferencing tools for the first time, they are zooming into a “digital Wild West” fraught with as many risks as rewards, says Eric Butash, director of education technology at Foster-Glocester Regional School District in Rhode Island.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Key points: Edtech objectives and student engagement goals should drive technology selections Leveraging edtech for differentiated instruction A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 For more news on interactive learning, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Education today looks dramatically different from classrooms of just a decade ago.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2021

As districts across the country can attest, developing and delivering these options required a new level of communication and partnership between home and school. In this orientation, parents weren’t just receiving a lecture. These are just two of many examples of communities embracing “both/and” innovation in response to COVID-19.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Second, you can’t employ too much video. Avoid long videos, though.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Watkins is a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing, an optional program for faculty. “We So as teachers are learning to use generative AI tools themselves, they’re also wrestling with when and how to communicate what they’re trying.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

K-12 tech innovation is driving a paradigm shift in education, embracing interactive tools, personalized learning, and digital resources to prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of the evolving global landscape. What are the educational technology trends in 2024? How has technology impacted K-12 education?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Using edtech in teaching, educators and school leaders can reduce environmental impact while enhancing student engagement and creativity. Rethinking teaching methods in the digital age Teaching methods have undergone significant transformation with the rise of educational technology.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. 3 Education Technologies Improve Blended Learning Initiatives. The questions that remain concern which of these resources are available and how can they continue to help students. At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C.,

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But Socrates knew that having a conversation, a dialogue and experience, is so much better than being lectured at. How many times has your audience been lectured at and how much do they remember about the lectures they got? Maybe [students] could meet Socrates when they go back. Probably not much. The goal is] playful learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

I actually paused in the middle of lecture once on my Zoom lecture [with 200 students] and we talked about self care and how important it was,” says Rachel Davenport, a senior lecturer at Texas State University. The sense of burnout was echoed at other campuses as well—by students and professors. “I It’s hard for all of us.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

It forced school systems to not only rethink their instruction but also figure out how to best use technology to facilitate instruction. Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That’s the view of Arthur Levine, in a new book called “ The Great Upheaval: Higher Education’s Past, Present, and Uncertain Future ,” which he co-wrote with Scott Van Pelt, a lecturer and associate director of the Communication Program for the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Most MOOCs, despite the claims of innovation and disruption, consisted of video lectures and text-based assignments. Thus, the impression that most people have of online education is an attempt to create an online lecture. Michelle Pacansky-Brock ( @brocansky ) is a Teaching and Learning Innovations Specialist and A.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Reply early and often: Students need to feel that teachers are immediately available to help and may feel isolated when educators take a full business day to respond to a request for help. Quick communication builds connection. Video feedback is also effective in building a connection with learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. The argument for a global language of communication has its pros and cons. Stanford University, Google, Facebook, AT&T?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I EdSurge: Like most professors, you’ve spent most of your career lecturing. You mention that in the traditional lecture model, students get addicted to professors teaching, and not in a good way.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Clever techies have stepped up to the challenge with their ingenious gadgets, transforming remote students into tangible beings with a heartbeat, devising uncanny innovations, most now surprisingly part of mainstream education, right on campus. MOOC critics say that streaming lectures is not terribly innovative. million students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data. You can stack links on links on links, embedding hypertexts in between. Sorry if you didn’t know that!)

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

I have trouble opening up my classes, viewing lectures, downloading lectures or material, and can never hand my assignments in on time even if I finish them before the deadline because my laptop is so slow it takes forever to upload work. That was the case for one surveyed student, who put it like this: “My laptop is very, very old.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It But such scholarship isn’t taken seriously by some academics.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

According to a study from education technology nonprofit Jisc and telecommunications giant Vodafone, “IoT applications can also help us change the role of teachers in the classroom , reducing the burden of administrative load on them and allowing them to concentrate more on individuals.”. Companies Invest in 5G Hubs to Research EdTech.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

Founded in 2007, Panopto pioneered the categories of lecture capture and enterprise video content management. Within five years, video will be the dominant form of online communication,” said Education Opportunity Fund Managing Director Jason Rosenberg. .

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I We need to be communicating with one another. Except—striving for continuity may be a bit delusional right now. Or it may be an effort that betrays misplaced priorities. I don’t want there to be ‘continuity.’

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2020

In fact, when instructors prioritize building rapport with their students—making real human connections with them and creating relationships grounded in trust and communication—they can eliminate the retention gap entirely. Online students want professors who communicate and engage with them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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