Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. deLaplante: I started creating videos as an extension of my classroom teaching—some version of the flipped classroom where you're doing lectures all the time, you're doing the same intros to this figure, or whatnot. But the big shiny revolution didn’t exactly happen.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

While it might seem like a simple transition to post slides or a recorded lecture online, teachers need to be intentional with course design to effectively mirror what students experienced in the classroom and make the transition as smooth and successful as possible. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

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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. academic journal article or specific industry press).

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings. Provide electronic files of reading, resources, presentations, and other materials. When they ask what this means, share these suggestions!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

More important than defining the words is how just discussing the definitions can engage students in reflective conversations. This is an opportunity for them to identify what they have seen and read online. Echo chamber: similar to confirmation bias, discussing news or sources within a group that confirms existing views.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2016

Flipping your class by having students watch lecture videos for their homework can lead to richer discussions about the content, but only if students come to class prepared. Early in his career, he would spent countless hours before every class preparing lecture notes from a different textbook than students were using.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

ELs need ample opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English. Teachers can incorporate collaborative activities, discussions, and cooperative learning strategies, like reciprocal teaching , that promote speaking and listening skills. Culturally responsive teaching is also vital for supporting ELs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

Check back later this month for the next must-read post!]. In fact, he has seen achievement gains that are three times greater than what he experienced when he used to lecture. What if we could empower our teachers to turn student assessment into a process of learning instead of a focus on measurement?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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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. The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. Active learning wins.

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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. I'll skip that class.

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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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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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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. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. It’s not just the Language Arts or Reading teacher’s sole responsibility to teach literacy. Mary Moen.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Through lectures, readings, discussions, graphic representations, videos, and hands-on artistic models, teachers have ways to share information. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”. With this in mind, we ask, “How do you share content with your students?”

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2021

At Stanford University, a popular large-lecture course used a giant video wall to let professors see as many of the course’s 250 students at once as possible and try to read the virtual room the way they can in a large auditorium. Stanford Magazine published an image of the class in action, with Weinstein speaking to the wall of video.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2024

Just as our fixed-menu dining scenario highlights the limitations of a one-size-fits-all approach, traditional classroom settings often mimic this model with lectures or mini-lessons where a teacher presents information in a uniform way to all students.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

I admit that I did not have the most thoughtful or eloquent answer as I discussed trying to keep up with advances, to recognize the utility of AI, but also to continue to foster critical thinking skills in my students. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. They could always find and read the content on their own.

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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of them was the very traditional strain of reading research on attention, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and all that stuff. Also, people will say students lose their attention if you lecture at them for a long time. I’ve taught by discussion for many years in my literature and writing classes.

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Instructors Attention Education Lecturing 218

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. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series. What are some ideas for how colleges should do this?

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Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Such an approach will require students to do more than listen to lectures as they develop their own perspectives through inquiry learning and close examination of primary and secondary sources. A lot of teachers will give students a discussion prompt to think about or start off with little five-minute news updates. Do your homework.

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Social Studies Study History Evaluation 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we’ve written. You could ask 10 people and they’d all have 10 different definitions of “lecture.” It can be distracting sometimes.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Through lectures, readings, discussions, graphic representations, videos, and hands-on artistic models, teachers have ways to share information. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”. With this in mind, we ask, “How do you share content with your students?”

Universal Design 208

Universal Design Students Lecturing Social Studies 208

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

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. Everyone sends in their reply by a set deadline.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

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

JANUARY 11, 2021

Being new to teaching, I spent time reading up on pedagogical best practices and how methods like mastery learning and one-on-one personalized guidance could drastically improve student outcomes. Effective teachers need to be good at a lot of things—delivering compelling lectures, creating and grading homework and assessments, etc.—but

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Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 212

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revising an episode from the summer that looks at a teaching fad from the 1960s and ’70s that has almost vanished from the discussion. It was called PSI, or Personalized System of Instruction.

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Teaching Gamification Failure Lecturing 196

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. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

Universal Design 212

Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 212

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

In most cases, what professors ask students to do outside the classrooms is watch video lectures, and Barba thinks that part of the flipped approach needs to go, and that professors are relying too much on such videos as a crutch. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We

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Lecturing Learning STEM Instructors 160

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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Distance Learning Learning Blended Learning English 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

A couple months ago I visited a big public university – Texas State University – and observed three large lecture classes, to get a sense of what teaching looks like these days. Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. That’s not to say that he can easily hold students’ attention for a whole lecture.

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Attention Lecturing Instructors Students 198

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

It encourages active engagement and reinforces understanding as students articulate and discuss ideas with one another. Think-Pair-Share: Students individually reflect on a question or prompt, then discuss their thoughts with a partner before sharing with the whole class.

Active Learning 141

Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

For more, read part one , and part two. And listen to a live discussion we hosted on the topic as well. A World of Spin A few years ago, Chris Sadler was working as a lecturer at Middlesex University, in Britain, when he noticed some strange phrases popping up in student work. They can just have the essay generator do it.”

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