Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of international educators in Dubai grappling with these challenges.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, moving a traditional classroom that’s built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application. The model classroom.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. The Age of AI is Upon Us. Schoeder, 2024). Schoeder, 2024).

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. The Review of Higher Education , 385-426. It may even be that the student is simply shy. References Schudde, L.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2020

A great education is no match for the inspiration to save lives. Like nearly all students, Grant Kahl, a freshman at the Colorado School of Mines, and Eric Love, a high school senior at the International School of the Americas in San Antonio, had their formal education abruptly disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide. They connect students with practicing industry professionals and help them gain hands-on experience that empowers them to excel in their chosen field.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2024

Having many new, effective tools in educators’ toolboxes, it’s time to cast aside conventional processes and rethink the way we provide services to, and support, our students. A student’s motivation in school is a key driver of their academic success. Take the first steps toward this innovation.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. How can we, as educators, enable engagement, persistence, and improved performance in the classroom? In other words, can we foster greater motivation? So framed, students’ uneasiness about belonging is likelier to be short-lived.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

As these modern education tools require management and security, integrating MDM solutions has become imperative for every organization. Understanding the Basics of Gamification in Education Gamification means adding interactive gaming elements to processes such as learning. They can also access and update student records.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12 th grade. We’re fortunate to work with MakerBot, a company which has the same commitment toward 3D printing in education as we do.”

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

There are already educational institutions using virtual reality to place learners in a real-life scenario to apply their knowledge and skills. In fact, virtual reality simulation training is being used to recreate a hospital ward for student nurse education (Elliman, Loizou, and Loizides, 2016). Participation. References. Elliman, J.,

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

The power of personalized learning AI can transform various aspects of society, such as medicine, transportation, and education. While AI tutoring offers a new way for students to approach learning, educators, parents, and students must use it cautiously.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

December 13, 2021— The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) recently named Audrey Muhammad, college success instructor at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, NC, as the recipient of the 2021 NABSE $10,000 Scholarship Award, which is sponsored by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., About NABSE.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

There’s new evidence that open educational resources may contribute to helping students complete college. Through the two-and-a-half yearlong effort, nearly 2,000 instructors developed and taught 6,600 OER course sections that served 160,000 students. That research was conducted by SRI Education and rpk GROUP.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Something broke in American education these past years. You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. The Review of Higher Education , 385-426. It may even be that the student is simply shy. References Schudde, L.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Many instructors have observed variability in students’ motivation to learn and grow. How can we, as educators, enable engagement, persistence, and improved performance in the classroom? In other words, can we foster greater motivation? So framed, students’ uneasiness about belonging is likelier to be short-lived.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

24, 2021 — Blackbird , bridging the gap in Computer Science curriculum, today announced updates and improvements inspired by student and teacher feedback to their code education app and platform. It can be administered by either non-technical or technically-trained instructors and parents. PORTLAND, Ore.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education. A virtual reality field trip.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became publicly available in November 2022, the field of higher education has been focusing on its impact and applications — faculty want to understand how this will shape their work and the student experience. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2021

Studies have shown that students learn better from instructors displaying positive emotions—in other words, an upbeat lecturer is more effective than someone delivering in monotone. But when video lessons are led by computer animations instead of live instructors, how much do their simulated emotions matter?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

While both can be true, it is up to educators to create classroom conditions for students to use ChatGPT and other AI tools in a responsible way. Educators can draw on their long practice of nurturing student agency and authentic engagement, as they have always done. Does this all sound far-fetched? Secret 1: Multimedia assignments.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. The momentum you gain from completing your checklist will help you to stay motivated, focused, and on track. It is essential to know the educational ROI of your teaching time so that you can stop wasting time on things that don’t matter. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2021

That level of personalized learning is just one vision of researchers who are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve education. They’re getting a boost through 11 grants of $20 million each that the National Science Foundation has awarded to establish new AI research programs for education and other fields.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% “Keeping in line with our prioritization on preparing students for further education or entering the workforce, Ancora High School helps to lay the groundwork for those who need it most,” said Bill Nance, CEO of Ancora.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Key points: Gamification can help engage students when they might otherwise lose motivation Engaged students are 2.5 While the environment that grows children into students–and eventually young adults–has been changing, the education system has proved less dynamic. According to a 2022 Gallup poll , engaged students are 2.5

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last year presented many challenges and accelerated a number of shifts that were already underway in K-12 education. The pandemic, however, brought all these innovative, yet still considered by some to be “alternative” education methods to the forefront in ways that our team could have never predicted.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

While some educators worry that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) might have a negative effect in these areas, many see the positive impact of AI on students’ ability to learn in their preferred languages, improved grades and career readiness. Canada, and in northern Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Schools Must Support Educators While Keeping Tabs on Tech Trends. Modern learning environments seamlessly integrate technology into spaces that are designed around teaching and learning , giving instructors and students the tools they need to succeed in a physical setting that promotes collaboration and supports multiple learning styles.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. The momentum you gain from completing your checklist will help you to stay motivated, focused, and on track. It is essential to know the educational ROI of your teaching time so that you can stop wasting time on things that don’t matter. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

For educators in the era of coronavirus, one such term is “continuity.” Studies suggest, for example, that grades can frustrate students’ intrinsic motivation and make them more focused on how they’ll be measured than on the material they should be studying. Without grades, some educators wonder, will students stay motivated?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

Those children and their needs should always be the priorities of the schools that serve them—not some online version of education. self-paced experiences with very little instructor engagement). Having that deep motivation will help you with what typically comes next: frustration. We organized and sequenced our materials.

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