Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. But there has been progress, both with the tools themselves and the teaching practices we employ to incorporate technology into the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. This week’s episode raises a bigger question: Why does education seem prone to faddism?

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. But we think that if you’re willing to ask questions along the way, if you’re willing to Google and search things and watch videos and educate yourself as you’re going, you’ll pick up the thread of your former teaching. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In my 20 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand how service-learning engages students as they become leaders in their communities. History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Plus, students can use them to submit work digitally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

And he suggests that in the future students may be able to choose the “gender” and “race” of the interactive agent delivering a lecture or serving as their AI tutor, much as people today can select the gender and accent of the Siri assistant on their iPhone.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

history at Merit Prep, devotes most of her class time to small-group instruction and conferences with individual students. Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes. Traditional whole-class lectures, a staple of high school history, are non-existent in her classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Also, people will say students lose their attention if you lecture at them for a long time. And I know that you can lose students just as easily in a 75-minute discussion as you can in a 75-minute lecture. There’s a chapter of that book that goes through the history of people talking about their distractible minds.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Place-based instruction allows us to learn more about our region today, the history of the people and their varied perspectives, and to establish a culture of citizenship and community pride to foster growth for future generations. What was the purpose of reading through history in chronological order?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In general, 3D printing has numerous advantages and in education, one of its biggest advantages is producing scaled models of objects that are simply not accessible in other ways. The ability to handle and examine historical objects contributes in many ways to making history lessons more interesting. . Final Word. About the Author.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Zimmerman talks about the story, and other surprising moments from teaching history, in this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Crash Course tackles weighty subjects like European history and organic chemistry. But it does so with wit and humor, and it has the snappy pace that feels more like an episode of the Simpsons than the typical classroom lecture. His book, “ The Fault in Our Stars ,” was made into a major motion picture.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There are so many acronyms that are pretty closely related,” explains Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise and a former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. And the related place-based learning sees students explore the history and culture of their own region.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

So if I’m going to teach the history of adaptive tutors in class one day, I’m just thinking about the facts around that. Also, I’m thinking about the design of my lesson, what I have planned to be able to have people engage with that history. At a minimum, I’m thinking about the substantive domain that I’m teaching about.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Mills Kelly, a professor of history at George Mason University, has looked into alternative designs for faculty offices as part of the planning of a new academic building. Mills Kelly, a professor of history at George Mason University who has been involved in the building planning. Personally, he'd like a window.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Now he could spend hours learning about Greek history and chess as she blasted Hamilton while drawing and writing creative stories. Are they going to implode if they learn some history and science from BrainPop? My son was able to learn by himself most of the time and seek help only when he got stuck.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

So if we had a faculty member who has to do chemistry lectures and has never worked in this environment, rather than have him or her record an hour-and-a-half lecture four days a week, there might be high-quality, six-minute lectures that you can find in a Coursera course and repurpose,” Pickus said.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

When studying the history of Chicago with my third-grade students, understanding identity was critical to understanding Chicago’s long-standing inequality. That said, spending too much time in whole-group instruction creates a culture of dependent learning, leveraging outdated practices like lecturing or rote memorization.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

And I went back among other things and looked at the history of radio, and it’s fascinating. There was the belief that universities would go away because, why would you possibly need to go to university if you could hear the lectures on radio? You look at what people were saying when radio first emerged in the 1910’s and 20’s.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

We are actively making the most of the opportunities to leverage technologies that exist across the educational domain. 1946 London Lectures, Maria Montessori. A History of Education in Antiquity, H.I. Ray Girn’s Book Recommendations. Between Parent and Child, Haim Ginott.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. Students put away their technology and read for four hours.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

First, China has a long history of distance education with television and video, so MOOCs feel like an extension of that work rather than a new phenomenon. Second, Chinese instruction is generally didactic, so the gap between listening in a lecture hall and listening online is modest.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. The risk is that we leave out students who can’t pay in the equivalent of the large lecture hall.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Even before the more recent growth of the edtech industry, educators have routinely created games and interactive challenges in order to get students engaged with subjects ranging from math and logic to history and reading. Ideally, educators want students to discover the joy of learning and be motivated by intrinsic rewards.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

The dilemma of what price to set for online tuition has a long history, going back to the early days of digital education, when many of us contended that online tuition should be no different than on campus. Yes, these colleges are nonprofit institutions, but these incongruous cases seem to contradict that simple formula.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Do you love history? If you said yes to either, you should definitely check out Puppet History. I never knew that I wanted history facts delivered in the form of a game show hosted by a blue puppet dressed in an American Girl Doll explorer outfit. Do you love puppets?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Technology has vastly disrupted and improved numerous sectors around the world, be it the government and banking, or retail and marketing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. Wally Clipper is a freelance writer with a penchant for topics in education, technology, and business.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But after talking to a number of different educators and reading their various accounts, what I can tell you is that your peers have discovered creative, technology-supported ways to approach teaching reading, writing and vocabulary in their multi-subject classrooms—and they were willing to share it to help you out.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. One pair of kids from his class ended up comparing the person with the most toes in history to the person with the fewest toes. Another compared the length of videos.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Online Degrees On Hold China actually has a long history of distance learning—mostly at correspondence schools and on broadcast TV. And at one point the Chinese Ministry of Education approved 68 pilot online colleges, including several at elite institutions, such as Peking, Tsinghua, Shanghai Jiaotong and Fudan Universities.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island. If so, what’s driving the trend? And what can professors and higher ed leaders do about it? You can hear those articulated in different ways in the classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

AI Is Changing the World: A Conversation on Education’s Future Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM US EDT In true grand finale fashion, #CoSN2024 will wrap up #CoSN2024 with a pair of industry heavyweights talking through what might be the most momentous point in edtech history. It’s wonderful to speak with you.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

For this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast , we dive into the debate over tuition refunds during this sudden period of mass online education during COVID-19, when it’s simply not safe to do what we all took for granted just a couple of months ago, like sit in the back of a lecture hall with 300 other students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

They represent the beautiful diversity of cultures, beliefs, abilities and gifts that come with the knowledge and appreciation of our histories. They know they need and should learn this information but rarely do our students think about what they deserve when it comes to their education.

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