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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. That way, students can control the pace they consume and process that instruction.

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How peer feedback can improve student writing skills

eSchool News

If students leave campus without refined writing skills, we’ve done them a great disservice. Luckily, a recent survey suggests faculty believe their most important task is teaching students to write. Time and technological constraints, however, often prevent every instructor from providing intensive feedback.

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

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About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. 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? This practice is called early-term feedback.

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

k12 Digest

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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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

The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). The UDL framework helps educators think about and design learning experiences that allow all students to be successful. Engagement. 3) When will I know I’ve arrived?

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How AI tutoring personalizes learning for students

eSchool News

AI tutoring can change students’ learning experiences by providing access to an environment designed according to their learning styles and paces. A significant advantage of AI tutoring systems is the personalized learning experiences they can offer students. It can provide more examples and problems until the student succeeds.