eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Some students thrived in the flexible learning environment, while others struggled with distractions, lack of direct teacher support, family stress, and social isolation. Educators developed new strategies to engage students remotely while balancing the demands of their own disrupted lives.

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Teaching Learning Teaching Methods Lecturing 311

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet schools are littered with products that have not changed anything beyond teachers’ desktop screens. As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. The list goes on.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , he discussed his ideas about education as a collaborative process where both the educator and the learner work together to create knowledge and learn from one another. “The It is the source of teaching and learning that is overlooked by most educators. and Baume, D.

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Learning Styles Teaching Feedback Teachers 116

Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

In his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed , he discussed his ideas about education as a collaborative process where both the educator and the learner work together to create knowledge and learn from one another. “The It is the source of teaching and learning that is overlooked by most educators. and Baume, D.

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Learning Styles Teaching Feedback Teachers 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Dewey and Kolb suggest that reflection is critical for learning to occur; however, it is not just students who benefit from reflection, those who teach can also benefit from reflecting about their teaching (Brookfield, 1998). professional development). There are many reflective tools and frameworks available.

Teaching 116

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Dewey and Kolb suggest that reflection is critical for learning to occur; however, it is not just students who benefit from reflection, those who teach can also benefit from reflecting about their teaching (Brookfield, 1998). professional development). There are many reflective tools and frameworks available.

Teaching 112

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 112

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

I discussed how we won’t see desired changes in student learning outcomes until we change what students experience in their schools on a day-to-day basis. I talked about how investment in deeper learning also is workforce development. I shared some big ideas about where I thought Iowa education could / should go.

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Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111