Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., 3-2-1 Reflection: As students watch the video, ask them to identify three things they learned (facts/information), two connections they made, and one question they have.

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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. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 105

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What did they do well?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Phenomena-based learning involves leveraging real-world scenarios and observations in learning to help students better understand their environment and uncover the steps necessary to solve problems and answer complex questions. Inquiry-based learning encourages students to ask questions, seek answers, and explore the world around them.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Begin with a collaborative offline activity designed to pique student interest or get them generating questions about a topic. Pair the video in an online discussion using Google Classroom or Schoology.

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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. Structured seating formation is not conducive to discussion. Two birds with one stone.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Teachers and school-based mental health practitioners may wish to use Florence as a whole-group weekly discussion in navigating adult relationships. Consider using the game for upper-level students to start discussions on how to prepare for college experiences.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

First, students individually reflect on a question or prompt, then they discuss their thoughts with a partner, and finally, they share their ideas with the class. Elaborative Interrogation : Asking and answering “why” questions about the material deepens understanding and promotes critical thinking.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

By making the learning a socially interactive experience, where students are discussing and debating the problems with each other, Dr. Mazur has found that his Harvard students are much more engaged in the class—and they also learn more from each other than they learned from him alone. Learn from the best innovations in education!

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Be open and welcome student questions. Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.).

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Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

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Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 115

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 141

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. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. Then, in real time, students and I would engage in extended discussions of the themes I’d covered in my recordings.

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Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 211

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. Apple’s iPod had only recently come out, and Duke became one of the first to experiment with putting out free lectures online that people could listen to on these digital music players.

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 325

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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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Learning 175

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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Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 208

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

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Questions Beliefs Lecturing Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2020

That question feels increasingly pressing as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. That reality was the starting point for this week’s episode of our live video discussion series on how colleges should respond to the coronavirus. All the lectures are prerecorded [because I can go back and review what happens].

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Lecturing Discussions Culture Questions 196

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. The software will automatically use your recording to make notes, flashcards and quiz questions,” she says in the promotional video.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. qualitative studies in crime or UK business effects of Brexit) and with regard to level/type of publication (e.g.

Discussions 97

Discussions Reading Instructors Lecturing 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting.

Teaching 196

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 196

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning.

Teachers 286

Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 286

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. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 199

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What questions keep them up at night? Asking these questions will help students navigate their potential major and avoid disappointment in the future. You can also use sites like RateMyProfessor to learn more about lecturers and professors before enrolling. Which classes do they enjoy the most in high school?

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Students Beliefs Motivation Lecturing 269

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

There are still many unanswered questions about what that might look like in practice, as colleges try to balance safety through social distancing while making teaching and other campuses experiences meaningful and effective. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series.

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Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Recently, both teachers and parents have started questioning the value in spending long stretches of the day in front of a screen participating in synchronous, online classes. Discussing this information can launch teachers and students into deeper conversations around self-awareness and time management. instead of broad lectures (e.g.,

Teachers 196

Teachers Hybrid Learning Lecturing Discussions 196

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And there's the tougher question: "If remote education is worth the tuition, then what is the worth of college?" The paper’s authors say they hope their work can become a starting point for discussion, rather than a rigid template. So what if there was a new model of university designed from scratch for 2022?

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