Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity? It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

The results of the survey , released this week, showed that students who took courses exclusively online were less likely to communicate with instructors and other students than students who take at least some courses in person. Student testimonies in the report bear this out.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I You decided you wanted to go to the university and become educated.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instructors may still cling to lecture models, Kramer says, perhaps because “it helps their ego that they get to be the sage in front of a bunch of students professing how awesome they personally are.”

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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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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Among the winners of the 2024 CODiE Awards in Education Technology Awards last week was an organization that doesn’t lead with tech specs, speeds, feeds, or even literacy scores.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Profiled and interviewed here is winner Tom Lamont , a painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School nominated by TechEdConcepts Inc. He has clearly had much success using “innovative education technologies” in his program.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2024

Given that today’s students are digital natives , it makes sense for schools to invest in modern educational technology such as interactive whiteboards. Of course, maintaining this smart technology can be a hefty investment. More importantly, how can your instructors maximize the use of the equipment and minimize its downtime?

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is proud to announce that CEO Bethlam Forsa has been named the “Most Influential Thought Leader in EdTech” by the 2024 SIIA CODiE Education Technology Awards.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

To help students achieve this, they strive to bridge the gap between access to high-quality instructors, award-winning AI software, and high-quality instructional resources. Carnegie Learning is the leading provider of K-12 education technology, curriculum, and professional learning solutions. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the last few decades, applied technology in the classroom has grown by leaps and bounds. Of course, there’s more to education technology than allowing computers in the classroom. Instructors can access the content management system and edit student performance reports.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

It’s clear that education technology, also known as EdTech, has seen many changes and challenges but one thing stands out — the industry is expected to continue to grow with an even stronger focus on technology, which means there will be a high demand for individuals who can support it.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

The prestigious CODiE Awards recognize the companies producing the most innovative education technology products across the country and around the world. CoderZ also offers a professional development program that introduces instructors to the concepts of teaching computer science and computational thinking using an online tool.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

By the mid-1950s, schools would adopt localized, attached libraries in which librarians are considered qualified teachers, educating both students and instructors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. It’s almost like this symphony that the instructor is the heart of.” That’s not to say that the transparent whiteboard is ineffective.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Department of Education. The instructor can lecture and students can ask questions, or the instructor can lead a live discussion. For instance, instructors can ask students to post a one-sentence summary or brief reflection after going through an assigned reading or watching a short video lecture.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations, Washington, DC, 2023. Instructors rush to do “assignment makeovers” to respond to CHATGPT – Edsurge News. 2023, July 27). EdSurge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

It is historically one of the most vexing problems in education that there is a tradeoff between scale and achievable quality of instruction : As class sizes grow larger, the ability of a teacher to provide the type of personalized guidance shown by learning science research to be most effective is diminished.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

One of the things that I talk about in the book is the presence of the instructor, and how felt that presence is in the actual space of a classroom. When you watch a lot of classes, what you’ll notice is that there is this kind of invisible fence, right at the front of the room that the instructor often will stay behind.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

Experts have also called for more teachers and educators to be involved with the development of edtech products. in rhetoric and composition from Virginia Tech, co-authored a paper in 2021 calling on educators to do more to incorporate user testing when designing learning materials. McNabb, who earned a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The journal Contemporary Educational Psychology ranks Mayer as the No. 1 most productive educational psychologist in the world. Since the pandemic hit, his research findings are more relevant than ever, as instructors look for guidance on what works as they move their teaching online.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems give students immediate feedback on areas of concern so they and their instructors can address problematic knowledge issues before they become severe. When students learn a topic quickly, an AI tutoring system can speed up and offer them more challenging material that remains appropriately difficult for them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The training also had the educators plan, observe and teach classes based on these principles to eager high schoolers enrolled in a summer camp on campus. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. It was meant to allow the educators to see these new methods in action, and to try them out personally.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. He says instructors who felt forced to quickly allow for remote options or teach remotely are now eager to get back to what they consider normal. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

InSpace allows instructors to maintain the natural flow of a face-to-face class in a virtual space and empowers students to control how they engage. The company’s technology replicates the personal interaction students and faculty crave that was lost when colleges, universities and K-12 classrooms introduced virtual education.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. Instructors across the disciplines question how and where their students will use AI.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

Dr. Rebekah Ralph, instructor of educational technology and EdTPA coordinator, pivoted to using video to support teacher candidates who had little to no interactions in the field. LaGrange College in Georgia was well-equipped to overcome this obstacle.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Between weeks five and eight—and after students have received results from a major assessment—instructors ask students to weigh in on how their learning is progressing.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Offering a diverse catalog of award-winning college courses with cinematic lectures from top-rated instructors, Outlier by Savvas provides high school students multiple pathways to college and career. “We In support of the research, data was gathered from company applications, annual reports, media monitoring, and other public sources.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology released an AI report: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning. The report outlined recommendations for guidelines and guardrails for the responsible use of AI in educational technology. It's going to come from… the instructor.

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