Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 17, 2024

In response to the challenges of COVID, a dissatisfaction with local in-person schools, and increasingly diverse needs of the high school student population, enrollment in US virtual schools is now over 300,000 with about 20% of students taking at least one online course. Social Media Integration.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

That’s exactly what is happening at Trailside Middle School in Loudoun County, Virginia; at high schools in Gaston County Schools, North Carolina; and at a few other pioneering classrooms around the country where I have had the opportunity to work with innovative educators. Learn from the best innovations in education!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates , or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial classes when they get to community college. In Tennessee, the seeds for success were planted in 2011, when a study showed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Schools need to throw out that.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Synchronous online learning allows you to build a community, discuss and interact over content, and helps your learners to maintain a regular schedule.

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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. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. While this type of information may not translate to high school students if they are already familiar with the topics, it does provide an obvious opportunity for educators: Teach what students are interested in.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. I follow on YouTube a middle school teacher, Joy Bazzle , who uses spin bikes for desks. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. I follow on YouTube a middle school teacher, Joy Bazzle , who uses spin bikes for desks. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Which classes do they enjoy the most in high school? You can also use sites like RateMyProfessor to learn more about lecturers and professors before enrolling. Help students choose a major by discussing their interests as well as their projected income. What questions keep them up at night?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University. Math is hard.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Teachers might break down lectures in bite-sized video clips, and use live streaming, or synchronous, time to conduct wellness checks with students and connect with them individually or in smaller groups. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With remote learning in full swing for a little over half of American elementary and high school schools, students are spending even more time in front of a screen: By some accounts, students are getting up to 5 or 6 hours of additional technology use per day. instead of broad lectures (e.g.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. A college has a better chance of establishing a helpful and productive learning environment if it invests in its students’ well-being. What is the average class size, and how accessible are professors?

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Recently, EdSurge met with field experts, all part of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), to discuss how they leverage edtech to provide an inclusive learning environment for all students. Compass High teachers aim to provide a personalized learning environment for every student as much as possible.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? And then that was followed by putting me in a lecture center because my class got so big. I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. I think it's a great poster.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Stop me if you’ve seen this one before: In an effort to encourage teachers to abandon traditional, lecture-style instruction in favor of next-generation learning models, we sit them down and ask them to listen for an hour or two. Or, in other words, we lecture teachers on the merits of ditching the lecture.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

high school science teacher Nicole Vick says that new approaches to science teaching over the past few years, including the introduction of new standards, has encouraged more hands-on activities and personal relevance that makes the subject more meaningful to students. At Century High School in Bismarck, N.D.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

It comes from people like Lyndsay Stueve, who works as a full-time global vendor operations expert while raising four kids who are in middle and high school. Most online courses have some form of demerits built into them if learners miss too many lectures, or turn in assignments late. Demand is out there. It creates a cadence.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: CSee how schools use virtual reality to improve assistive learning programs. Blended Learning Programs Improve the Learning Without the Lecture. At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., At Eastern Senior High School in Washington, D.C., by Wendy Jones.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote. It’s a phenomenon researchers are painfully aware of.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class. Let’s take a trip back to high school. When I think about high school, I vividly remember my 11th grade math class. As the teacher lectures, I’m scribbling down everything that I see on the board, verbatim, in my notebook.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school. The homework was intentionally challenging, often requiring problem-solving beyond what was covered in lectures.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Most of our coverage of the COVID-19 emergency has focused on talking to educators and administrators about how they’re responding and adjusting to life under school and college shutdowns. Adrienne Davis: So, what's going on at our school, it was a really big domino effect, too. I also work part-time as a library aide at a high school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide. Although it’s true that the law requires this kind of assistive technology at some schools, I believe ASR is now more than just assistive technology; it’s on its way to becoming foundational educational technology for all students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

The open-study course is a free offering from Pioneer Academics , a public benefit corporation better known for its selective online research program, which pairs high school students around the world with mentors. Instead of lectures, he hosts spirited discussions with teams as they prepare their finals analyses and presentations. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes. Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes. Matchbook Learning schools also use the student data collected by Spark to track school-wide performance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Our whole approach from infancy through high school is deeply technology-enabled. 1946 London Lectures, Maria Montessori. We use 3-D headsets to have this immersive experience of being in a classroom and doing micro observations, then you go into a Socratic seminar and discuss what you’ve observed.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

As reported in April 2016 (the most recent year for which data is available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress ) only 37 percent of high school seniors in the U.S. will be able to handle college-level reading, and only 25 percent will grasp college-level math. Personalized Learning Aids All Students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Mary’s Academy (SMA), an all-girls high school located in the heart of Portland, Ore., Many flip lessons , using videos, websites, and digital presentations rather than traditional lectures. They hold online discussions, offer design challenges and genius hours , and share feedback digitally.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. Teachers can encourage the type of reflection and iteration that is so essential to success in the workforce through think/pair/share discussions, journaling and blogging.

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