Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

A video-discussion platform originally started by a University of Minnesota professor to keep in touch with students for a course he was teaching has been purchased by tech giant Microsoft. For many professors, the killer app of Flipgrid was to replace online discussion forums with video comments by students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors. This collaboration can take place in the form of guiding a class discussion, creating assignments and responding to student work.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, professors can have students submit video responses to a discussion question using a platform like FlipGrid. Back then, everything was asynchronous by default. “It

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Working with more than 500 teachers annually, and with Project Zero from the Harvard Graduate School of Education to analyze our e-classroom discussion boards, we have qualitative data on what works to keep students engaged in learning. Underlying the 5 steps below are 2 “secrets,” which will come as no surprise to today’s educators.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Join eSchool News’ panel of experts in the second part of our webinar series to discuss building efficiencies and data security and compliance in education. In this position, he supports Higher Education and K-12 schools in both the United States and Canada. Register now! Register Now!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

InSpace allows instructors to maintain the natural flow of a face-to-face class in a virtual space and empowers students to control how they engage. Users seamlessly switch from communal class discussions to private conversations or group work, similar to a lab or classroom. and Armenia.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. The latest cohort, unveiled over two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of the things that I talk about in the book is the presence of the instructor, and how felt that presence is in the actual space of a classroom. When you watch a lot of classes, what you’ll notice is that there is this kind of invisible fence, right at the front of the room that the instructor often will stay behind.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. For example, we investigated the mummy from the Torquay Museum and talked about the scientific process behind mummification.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. Every new version of Microsoft PowerPoint allowed instructors to embed more and more media and wow students with visually appealing graphics. Provide opportunities for students to reflect.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. In spreadsheets, he manually recorded each interaction he had with students during discussion. Three instructors at the University of California in Irvine are also piloting the app, Levy says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Particularly at the many institutions that had not previously offered online courses, instructors lacked the preparation time, resources or instructional design expertise required to develop and build an online curriculum—not to mention the infrastructure required to support their efforts at scale.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Artificial intelligence resides at the nexus of education and technology, where the opportunities seem limitless, though uncertain. Over the last few months, EdSurge webinar host Carl Hooker moderated three webinars featuring field-expert panelists discussing the transformative impact of artificial intelligence in the education field.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

All too often, they would wind up needing to ask their instructor a question about the assignment but had no time to receive an answer before the deadline passed. They can check announcements during work breaks or read discussion posts while waiting for a flight at the airport.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Yongpradit says he was recently attending a panel discussion where an educator urged teachers to disclose AI use since they are asking their students to do so, garnering cheers from students in attendance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some speakers discussed empathy directly, like Graetz, who co-led a session about building more of it into the design of online courses. Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But McNamara says she ended up getting together with another classmate she met on the Discord group face to face.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

The likely result is that many new online faculty hires will not be moving along the tenure track, but will—like most online instructors today—enter the halls of academe as contingent workers, adjuncts with little job security. Conventional instructors often limit class discussion the minute the bell rings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, virtual classrooms often utilize a variety of technological tools that enhance interactivity and collaboration. Platforms like Zoom or Google Classroom enable real-time discussions, while forums foster ongoing dialogue beyond scheduled sessions. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Early in my career as a university instructor, this method was a foundational cornerstone in the classroom. This information could potentially help educators, administrators and parents alike in facilitating the best possible learning environments for students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

What do you think is important for an instructor to do when using classroom response systems (polling software or clickers)? C) Ask students “Please discuss your answer with a neighbor.” Like many education tools, it depends. A common mistake instructors make when using polls is writing too many easy questions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But since the COVID-19 pandemic forced instructors around the world to try online education, something unexpected has happened: Professors have found that there are some online teaching methods that work better than what can be done in the limits of a physical classroom. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? During the next class period, she discusses the findings with her students. Instructors collect responses, then figure out and explain what they’re going to do differently.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

This allows you to generate discussion about people’s reasoning. But coming up with a few discussion questions where you can get everyone to participate, and sprinkling them into your lecture, will be a high ROI use of your time. These should likely be discussed as a group to see if the team is comfortable with them.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

For example, a 50-minute period might begin with a “Do Now,” a brief exercise that introduces to students what they will be learning, followed by short segments that include a mix of lecture, group activity, discussion, or individual work. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Though 97 percent of education professionals in Kaltura’s State of Video in Education annual report say that video is “ essential to students’ academic experiences ,” when it comes to educational video practices, many instructors are still pressing play.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The concept has become especially embedded in education, ever since schools and universities closed this spring and the video call service became the lifeline tethering students to instructors. The company says its education vertical is its largest, and the team has tripled in size this year. Here’s what we learned.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Towards the end of their email message, there was some clarifying information regarding the role of the professor: “Individual instructors have the authority to establish course policies for the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools. That instructor, Kyle Ali, took two key steps in his “Diversity in a Global Economy” course.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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