Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Could approaching the design, instruction, and facilitation of learning (in class, online, or a combination of the two) with a “would you rather” lens improve student motivation and engagement? Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018).

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. Clear expectations positively impact the students’ feelings of competence or confidence in their ability to complete a task, which can motivate them to put in their best effort.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

My decision was not motivated by laziness or my inability to do these tasks, but rather I wanted my students to take more ownership over their learning. My students are more motivated to learn because they play an active role in defining what that learning looks like. Communicates with parents about student progress.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation. You keep going.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2022

The 2022 Career Interest Survey gives insights into what motivates an adventurous, civic-minded, concerned, vocal, tech-savvy, emerging workforce. A majority of high school and college students chose STEM as their No.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students. They believed that students’ motivation should come from within. But we can be thoughtful about the tools we use to motivate students and how we support them in navigating their emotions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The 2022 Career Interest Survey gives insights into what motivates an adventurous, civic-minded, concerned, vocal, tech-savvy, emerging workforce. Related : The ups and downs of girls in STEM Powerful strategies to motivate girls in STEM. Many high school and college students chose STEM as their No.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2019

Rather than the usual murmurs and griping about fairness we often hear among middle-school adolescents, an interesting thing happened. When I learned about this, I was motivated to ask why , and to revisit our dress code. It was only a matter of time before this moved beyond the “it’s not fair” argument to one of substance and heart.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When there are only so many hours in the day, it becomes nearly impossible to find time for computer science—despite its potential to inspire, motivate, and meaningfully engage students in really cool things. Computer science could become another spoke in that rotation fairly easily, and many schools are already doing this.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? For that reason, summative assessments report data too late because the ultimate goal of assessment is to evaluate the progress achieved toward a learning goal. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

“When your entire job is trying to motivate people to use technology to transform teaching and learning, there’s always resistance,” Massinger says. “All the systems and tools were there. ” But there’s little room for reluctance in a global pandemic. “Right now, there’s no resistance.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Assessments will always impact how students learn, their motivation to learn, and how teachers teach. The post Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced? For that reason, summative assessments report data too late because the ultimate goal of assessment is to evaluate the progress achieved toward a learning goal. Thomas, Bastin, (2022).

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Celebrate achievements: Reflecting on the successes of the school year is crucial for boosting morale and motivation among students and staff. Engage students in meaningful activities : Keep students engaged and motivated until the last day of school by planning meaningful end-of-year projects or events.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2025

Key points: Caring connections can support and uplift students 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation 5 restorative practices that help teachers create connections For more on teacher-student relationships, visit eSNs SEL & Well-Being hub Middle school marks the transition from late childhood to early adolescence.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Common Sense Media recognized Ello as a company that displayed Responsible AI practices, especially its machine learning fairness that contributed to the app’s high rating.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Whether it’s through mental coaching, leaning on your team, or reframing the situation as an opportunity to rise to the occasion, pressure becomes a resource for strength and motivation. By actively supporting female colleagues, male leaders not only promote fairness but also drive better outcomes for their organizations.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Most students may know about the volleyball team getting a big win the previous night, but it’s an equally big deal when those students win a science fair, or a teacher is honored by their peers. Learn more about digital signage’s ever-growing presence — and need — in the classroom in this free white paper.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

It’s fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits just as easily in K-12 classrooms as it does in higher education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2017

Surveyed educators overwhelmingly cited motivation, creativity and use of technology with STEAM subjects as reasons their schools use 3D printers in the classroom. Most institutions who own 3D printers own between 2 and 5 (38 percent), with 28 percent of institutions owning between 6 and 20.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2017

When he first signed up for CS50, it is fair to say he was not in the habit of choosing the most demanding courses on campus. Making the learning a shared, social experience not only motivates students to do their best work; it also helps them learn from each other. My son, Dan, took the course.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

For the reasons of improving student education and funding we are motivated to be sharing the opportunity with Skyward districts across the country.”. Since then, over 1,000 school districts (including two statewide implementations) have adopted the software. The impact is amazing, transformative, and very real.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

College career fairs look like an awkward high school dance: Students circle around company booths, unsure whether to stop and drop off a resume. One company is making a business out of helping student associations and companies connect beyond the walls of tri-folds and stacks of resumes at career fairs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

In other words: “Most of my classes may be boring but I get to hang out with my friends, be in a club, participate in music and art, play a sport, see a couple of teachers that I like…” One of the biggest challenges of ‘remote learning’ over the past few months has been that most of the motivators been pared away.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

He notes that the “project” in project-based learning isn’t just a robot or computer program that students show off at the science fair; rather, projects are analogous to “units of the curriculum that teach both content and skills.”. This requires significant teacher-student interaction at a group level. by Doug Bonderud.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information. I didn’t think that was fair to people practicing flipped learning.”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

A recent survey from Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation found that less than half of Gen Z students enrolled in middle and high school felt motivated to go to school. Video game-based assessments, for example, are particularly attractive as a means to cultivate skills that are unique to the human brain and can help increase engagement.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens. But there is literature on how to adapt the grading process to avoid the drawbacks above, and improve student motivation and engagement, as well as instructor satisfaction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. I was trying to think of a way to both motivate students to complete projects and, at the same time, find a use for their projects once they were finished. Today, we use FH Gizmos to expose Fair Haven students to entrepreneurship.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. This ownership is important as it fosters motivation, leading to greater engagement and investment in their own education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, E-Line Media, and founding sponsor the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) aim to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth by transforming their natural passions for playing video games into designing and creating their own.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

To develop innovative solutions to accessibility challenges, we need to be motivated and energized to problem-solve. Accounting for the widest range of learners with different abilities, backgrounds and motivations is the only way to provide all individuals with fair and equal opportunities to learn. We can innovate.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Based on our eye-movement research, along with supportive third-party research with other eye-movement recording devices, we have developed an online reading assessment that measures a student's comprehension-based silent reading rate along with motivation and vocabulary ability. I would say the biggest problem is the motivation to read.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. This increased motivation.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2021

Tuition Strikes Are Sticking Around Anna Attie graduated the same semester she founded UChicago for Fair Tuition in spring 2020, when about 200 students held a tuition strike. Inspired by UChicago for Fair Tuition, Vassar College students are planning a tuition strike for the fall.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2022

Yet as Facebook comes of age, it’s fair to reflect on the company’s motives, ethics, and actions. Marketers felt pressure to move at a previously unheard-of pace to keep up with platform and algorithm changes and didn’t necessarily feel able to pause and consider the consequences.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Gregor, a course assistant at the Kennedy School, tells EdSurge that manually recording each interaction with Teachly wasn’t a burden, and that it motivated different students to participate more throughout the course. It was a total shock to me—I thought I was calling on them fairly,” says Levy, 48. “It It was a big, big moment for me.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Abigail Joseph: When I was at my previous school, every year the seventh- and eighth-grade students studied either the Silk Road or the World's Fair. This particular year they were teaching the World's Fair, and I worked with the students to create websites. What always struck me was how addicted my kids were to the screen.

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