eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. It’s designed for learners who are interested in hands-on experiences, problem-solving, and discovery over non-traditional methods like reading textbooks and listening to lectures from a professor.

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

When they find out that my school is on a 90-minute block schedule, they sigh and tell me that they just don’t have that kind of time with kids. Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time.

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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. When this surfaced in my research, I was not surprised.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Overloading students with homework after a long day of school. Pair the video in an online discussion using Google Classroom or Schoology. Adding to the time students already spend staring at a screen.

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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. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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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 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

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In her edWebinar “ Fight Fake News: Media Literacy for Students ,” Tiffany Whitehead, school librarian for the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says that’s exactly what we need to teach students. More important than defining the words is how just discussing the definitions can engage students in reflective conversations.

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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. There are pros and cons of attending class via computer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. My own experience teaching at The New School, a small Manhattan college, supports this style of instruction.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

“If it’s edtech, it must be good,” used to be the mantra in schools. The first imperative isn’t just about telling the school community about the district’s tech plan, but, more important, ensuring they understand the learning goals are attached to the plan. Schools need to throw out that.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

While K-12 schools and higher-ed institutions have spent considerable effort adhering to accessibility standards (and should be applauded for that effort), one in four lawsuits in education center around accessibility. They offer real-time summarized transcripts for lectures, meetings, and live events, either remotely or in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Key points: A love of learning can lead to a lifetime of learning How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum Here’s how schools can better support neurodiverse students For more news on instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Curiosity is a fountain of opportunity for all educators.

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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. 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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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials.

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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 took a very similar approach when I taught online at The New School in Manhattan a few years ago.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Now, imagine this in a virtual school environment with everyone online. Teachers can divide students into discussion groups. Teachers can also send students into breakout rooms and monitor them through a feature that recognizes whether or not students are engaged in discussions. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And if incoming students do not see the difference between the online instruction offered by their community college and by a traditional four-year residential school, many university administrators should be nervous indeed. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Second, you can’t employ too much video.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

It’s common today for colleges to invite professors from other institutions to deliver distinguished lectures on campus. On their own and in their own time, students watch pre-recorded video lectures and demonstrations, enter discussion boards and work together in groups employing collaborative software tools day and night.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the coming year, that broad trend will continue, with a shift to looking beyond knowledge building as schools, districts, and states begin improving capacity and creating systems aligned to the science of reading. No curriculum, however, is the science of reading, and I believe schools and districts are beginning to understand this.

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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. After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Almost 10 years ago, I served as the principal of a blended learning pilot school. When our school opened in 2009, only seven of our 220 students were reading at grade level; by 2013, the majority were proficient or advanced readers. Enter our five minutes of fame as a school. Now they are happily back at school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The paper’s authors say they hope their work can become a starting point for discussion, rather than a rigid template. It’s not this kind of colonizing other schools with our cool and groovy toys [from MIT],” she stressed. Henderson says she has seen such an approach work well from her own experience.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Video conferencing that connects students and educators globally for virtual lectures, discussions, and guest speakers. Learning management systems (LMS) that facilitate online content delivery, assignments, and grading. Classroom response systems for instant feedback and engagement through quizzes, polls, and surveys.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Yet, even after three years in this role at my current school, there are a handful of teachers who are still hesitant to allow students to use devices and the powerful apps and resources they contain. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!” This rang true with me.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Platforms like Zoom or Google Classroom enable real-time discussions, while forums foster ongoing dialogue beyond scheduled sessions. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Rice recently joined two other online learning researchers on an EdSurge-ISTE webinar , focused on how existing research on online learning can help teachers navigate the emergency remote instruction that’s been in place since schools closed in March. 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

Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. A schools overall reputation matters, but whats more important is whether it has strong programs in your field of interest. Does this college offer the right programs for my career goals?

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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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