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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. This NPR program provides a framework for educators who want to better know their students in an increasingly digital classroom setting. Leverage partners. Provide opportunities for yourself to reflect.

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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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Bosselman has been speaking to other educators to learn from them and help him make plans for his own school. Education is about four things,” Bosselman explains. Later I have a video call with John Bosselman, director of instruction at the public charter school Latitude High School, in Oakland, Calif.

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Why Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the Critical Thinking Skills Gap

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This is a serious problem that educators need to understand and address. Today’s educators need to do a lot more to help students understand how to evaluate information. That’s not to say that educators should simply sit back and take a hands-off approach. Unlike the roads of Robert Frost’s poem , our two paths are not equal.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

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The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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Enhancing Access, Engagement, and Inclusion in Online Education

Faculty Focus

The landscape of higher education has witnessed a significant shift in recent years, with an increasing number of students opting for nontraditional avenues to pursue their academic goals. This trend underscores the growing popularity of online education as a means of accessing higher education opportunities.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

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Browne-Marshall, a professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to talk about one group leading the charge to preserve history and educate us all: the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Hampton later educated important figures like Booker T. Washington.

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

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During a second and third grade book discussion group, a group member, Claire, invited into the conversation Shauna, a quiet student who often missed classroom discussions to go down the hall to her special education class — a practice that can make such students feel like outsiders in their own class. An excellent discussion ensued.

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