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Enhancing classroom learning with interactive maps 

eSchool News

These maps go beyond traditional static maps, allowing students to investigate, evaluate, and engage with spatial information. These tools are a wonderful way to make history come alive for students who may struggle with traditional textbooks or lectures. It can be challenging for them to grasp distances on a static map.

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Schools and districts that ignore TikTok’s lessons are bound to fail

eSchool News

If traditional teaching methods reliant on textbooks, lecture, and rote memorization have proven anything, it’s that one size definitely does not fit all. We do that by ditching the lectures and embracing experiments, multimedia, discussions, and hands-on activities that resonate with most learners.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation.

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In a Contentious Year, Can Social Studies Be Taught Free of Bias?

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Such an approach will require students to do more than listen to lectures as they develop their own perspectives through inquiry learning and close examination of primary and secondary sources. We really want to try to help our students evaluate primary and secondary source materials and engage in interpretation analysis.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

Faculty Focus

These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations. Together, we weren’t just evaluating survey results. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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?Edtech is Trapped in Ben Bloom’s Basement

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Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. A third loaded up a digital textbook filled with circuits, transistors, and other assorted electronics diagrams. Evaluating (learner can scrutinize and debate the topic). A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed.

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