EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Artificial Intelligence: Smart assistants can help teachers and students use time more efficiently. Acting as tutors or teaching assistants, AI makes classroom time more effective and leaves educators time to address more personal needs. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. . .

Technology 167

Technology Blended Learning Lecturing Exams 167

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Unsurprisingly, some of the biggest drivers of these improved metrics include making people pay for online programs, increasing the selectivity of courses, and adding program managers and teaching assistants to follow up with learners. Here are seven practices for moving completion rates for online courses from 5 to 85 percent: 1.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

Science 218

Science Education Learning Essay 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

In addition, we incorporated the multisensory Orton-Gillingham approach for reading instruction, which has shown great success with many of our students. Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology.

Special Education 161

Special Education Education Assistive Technology History 161

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

Ive tried a few different techniques for class discussions over the years, some that Ive written about previously in Faculty Focus. In recent years, Ive dialed in a 3-step process for discussion in my face-to-face classes, which has helped me create an engaged classroom climate. Its Think-Pair-Share (TPS), with some upgrades.

Lecturing 87

Lecturing Teaching Assistants Discussions Activities 87

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts. Districts will move to adopt the Science of Reading to increase reading gains: The research to support this approach to teaching and the efficacy of it in application is strong.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The troubling part is that, according to Best Colleges, the majority of students report their instructors have not openly discussed the use, let alone potential impact of AI on education, careers, or the very disciplines students are investing their time and treasure in pursuing. The responses reveal a mixture of apprehension and optimism.

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

They can also use polls, quizzes and discussion boards to facilitate classroom interaction, assess learning or capture student feedback. Brightspace Assignment Release Conditions I use Read&Write for Chrome to translate text to speech and to note feedback at intervals throughout my students’ writing process.

Teachers 140

Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. It’s like having a teaching assistant that never sleeps!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He also used some of the money to send his teaching assistants to cities around the globe. A video created in Tanzania by Garrett Wilkinson, a teaching assistant in the Anth101 course. Wesch hired a consultant he knew to build a website for the course, so that it wouldn’t look like a typical college site.

Textbooks 162

Textbooks Teaching Assistants Instructors Exams 162

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. During in-class activities, we often collaborated in pairs or small groups.

Science 148

Science Education Learning Essay 148

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2022

How do you fold the remote students into discussions and activities? Think about visual aids you might be using—drawings, equations, PowerPoint slides—and if they can be read and understood both by the in-person students and the students viewing remotely. How do you know if the remote students can see and hear you?

Feedback 105

Feedback Minute Papers Mobile Devices Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

College settings foster collaborative learning environments, where students engage in dynamic discussions and group activities. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2025

Ive tried a few different techniques for class discussions over the years, some that Ive written about previously in Faculty Focus. In recent years, Ive dialed in a 3-step process for discussion in my face-to-face classes, which has helped me create an engaged classroom climate. Its Think-Pair-Share (TPS), with some upgrades.

Lecturing 71

Lecturing Teaching Assistants Discussions Activities 71

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The troubling part is that, according to Best Colleges, the majority of students report their instructors have not openly discussed the use, let alone potential impact of AI on education, careers, or the very disciplines students are investing their time and treasure in pursuing. The responses reveal a mixture of apprehension and optimism.

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena. –Lupita Knittel, President, 7 Mindsets.

Hybrid Learning 294

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 294

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others. Tip #3: Reflect on your teaching persona. Tip #2: Use multicultural examples. link] Weinstein, L.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Language 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. All four approaches preserve an essential element of traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experiences.

Lecturing 126

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

And often that’s because there is a disconnect between what students expect from college teaching and what actually ends up happening in the classroom. Apart from course evaluation, which is embedded within the normal semester, and kind of a mandatory process, I think the other stakeholder that we often forget is the teaching assistants.

Teaching 121

Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). In the classroom, low autonomy might be a discussion board on a specific topic, under a specific word requirement that has to be completed in a short window of time.

Course Design 96

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 96

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

College settings foster collaborative learning environments, where students engage in dynamic discussions and group activities. Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 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. For example, if you look at the Jill Watson experiment at Georgia Tech, where they created a virtual teaching assistant, the students in the class didn't know that they were talking to a bot.

Education 167

Education Quizzes Writing Online Learning 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. All four approaches preserve an essential element of traditional brick-and-mortar classroom experiences.

Lecturing 106

Lecturing Feedback Evaluation Course Design 106

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In a class, an example might be only having students submit a discussion board post for every assignment. reading, watching videos, discussing with peers). In the classroom, low autonomy might be a discussion board on a specific topic, under a specific word requirement that has to be completed in a short window of time.

Course Design 87

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 87

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Be intentional with the examples and readings you give to your students. Actively work to develop a deeper understanding of cultural diversity through professional development, reading, film, art, and interactions with others. Tip #3: Reflect on your teaching persona. Tip #2: Use multicultural examples. link] Weinstein, L.

Culture 96

Culture Communication Writing Language 96

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Give students time to first read these on their own. Ask students to read a few notes aloud. You may ask students to share how they feel and what they experience when they read or hear these notes of appreciation. Storytelling to Practice Empathy Read or have several students read portions of Gate A-4 out loud.

Confidentiality 88

Confidentiality Instructors Motivation Writing 88

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 82

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 82

Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

Oppositely, small classrooms allow for more intimate interactions, personalized feedback, and flexible teaching methods (Wang & Calvano, 2022). Students in smaller classes often feel more comfortable asking questions and engaging in discussions, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Teaching 79

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 79

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Those were key points that emerged during an online panel discussion EdSurge hosted on the promises and perils of AI in education. The hour-long discussion was so rich, we’re releasing it in two installments. Read a transcript of the second half of the conversation below, which has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

Learning 89

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The following discussion will use ChatGPT as a specific AI (artificial intelligence) program and the more general term AI for the increasing number of new programs. Let ChatGPT Be Your Teaching Assistant. The Transformer expands the chatbot to not only predict the next word or so but expands it to predict paragraphs.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

The following discussion will use ChatGPT as a specific AI (artificial intelligence) program and the more general term AI for the increasing number of new programs. Let ChatGPT Be Your Teaching Assistant. The Transformer expands the chatbot to not only predict the next word or so but expands it to predict paragraphs.

Intelligence 97

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Instructors then comment or respond to at least one thing to help students know that their responses are read and recognized. Some students prefer this to email when discussing things like feedback, assignments, or personal difficulties. In this survey, instructors also give their answers after the students have completed the survey.

Instructors 59

Instructors Syllabus Feedback Assignments 59

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2020

After all, these kinds of classes are what many people think of when they close their eyes and imagine college teaching. Or read a short recap below. The first professor I talked to was Brian Balogh, a longtime history professor at the University of Virginia who has won awards for his teaching.

Lecturing 189

Lecturing History Teaching Assistants Learning 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The students, Joseph Tey and Shaurya Sinha, have built a tool called Sherpa that is designed to help educators hear students talk through an assigned reading to determine how well they understood it. To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written.

Exams 215

Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Most importantly, discuss matters that interest her. I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. She talks most readily about philosophy, the subject she helps teach at Notre Dame de Namur University, a small Catholic college in California. Asking her what she reads falls flat. “It Have you read it?”

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

With Halloween upon us, we chatted with Stepanic about what his course addresses, how it became so popular, and why Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not a required read. Stanley Stepanic: When I first came to UVA in 2005 to study for my master’s and my PhD, I was a teaching assistant to the course and was mentored by Professor Jan Perkowski.

Education 133

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 133