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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

In short: Writing remains a new feat of technology. Hiring managers, for example, are more likely to cite writing skills as “very important” for new hires, compared to technological and quantitative reasoning skills. Time and technological constraints, however, often prevent every instructor from providing intensive feedback.

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

k12 Digest

Technology has permeated every facet of our lives, making many tasks easier, and even doing some of our work for us. The impact of technology on the human brain is still being studied, but there is a body of research which is decades old and has increased its capacity to inform education with advances in medical imaging technology.

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

Edsurge

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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A taxonomy for using AI in education

eSchool News

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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3 Reasons to Consider a Co-teaching Model

Catlin Tucker

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. I’m in my fifteenth year of teaching and I’m credentialed in English and technology. We approach feedback and assessment as a team.

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