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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. Embracing Our Facilitation Role & Prioritizing Feedback with Blended Learning.

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How peer feedback can improve student writing skills

eSchool News

Time and technological constraints, however, often prevent every instructor from providing intensive feedback. This is why providing spaces for peer writing feedback is a vital component of the educational experience. The Value of Peer-to-Peer Writing Feedback. And feedback does more than smooth syntax.

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

Edsurge

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? Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received.

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Look to the Science: Understanding how Mind, Brain and Education Science can Inform Educational Practices

k12 Digest

Passive learning is defined as the process by which students receive information from their learning environment but receive no feedback, and there is no interaction between the learner and the learning environment. Active and Experiential Learning The brain-based learning framework consistently emphasizes the importance of active learning.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

In addition to encouraging students to learn with and from each other, they need timely, mastery-oriented feedback from the teacher to continue making progress, appreciate the role the effort and practice play in improvement, and develop confidence in their abilities.

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Blackbird Announces First Ever Educational Version of JavaScript

eSchool News

“Educational versions of programming languages, such as Blackbird’s, seek to address this need by providing an environment where students can learn the coding concepts in a simple way, with immediate constructive feedback, enabling them to learn at a student-appropriate pace, and in an enjoyable manner.”.