Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. With that feedback, Phipps brought down the ratio of teacher-to-student talk to 50:50. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback. This isnt the first technology weve come across and worried about, Weeks said, referencing debates around allowing calculators in math classrooms and how they might impact students deeper math learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I also love how the quiz feature automatically provides feedback and tracks student progress to make it easier to monitor and adjust. My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other. I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our teachers and students thrived; every single student received individual support and feedback every single day in both math and reading. Sure—they provided students with immediate feedback, and teachers did not have to waste their time making and printing worksheets late at night. Were they better than a worksheet?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

The new model can also accept not just text, but spoken voice inputs and visual inputs , so that users can do things like share a still photo or image of their screen with the chatbot to get feedback. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2019

We surveyed our students to get feedback from them,” Bolshakova said. Many of Pitsco’s solutions are team based and student centered and include standards-aligned curriculum, easing the requirements on teachers who might not be well versed in all the math, science, and technology involved but are eager to learn right along with the students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2020

“I definitely worry about some of my teachers and the level of burnout they’re feeling,” said Stacey Roshan, a math teacher and director of innovation and educational technology at Bullis School in Potomac, Md. The feedback we got from our community is that they’re really craving more synchronous, face-to-face time,” she adds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. You’ll be able to assess in new ways, ways that may help you provide better feedback. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. This is the reason why the mute button exists.” — Marissa Fusi, High School Math Teacher, Central Union High School (Imperial, Calif.) Heck, I don’t even like doing that.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching. But [I expected] that the feedback loop isn't there. And the feedback loop is at the center of all human learning processes. I wasn't entirely sure.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2022

When I think about high school, I vividly remember my 11th grade math class. As the teacher lectures, I’m scribbling down everything that I see on the board, verbatim, in my notebook. I have students solve math questions on video with an emphasis on teaching their classmates how to solve the problem they are tackling.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. Tan is the co-founder of Boddle, a multiplayer math learning game that reports a user base of 4 million students.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

We took our respective subjects—science and math—combined forces, and created one super-class: what our students affectionately call smath. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. This cuts down on daily planning time.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing. You would go to a university and you would study for four years, and you'd go to lectures and go to your discussion groups. All human learning that's significant is based on feedback loops, except in school. dissertation defenses we have now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Challenges and Solutions in Mathematics College professors frequently adopt a lecture-based approach, emphasizing theory over practice. This shift can disorient students accustomed to interactive classes and immediate feedback. .’ But why does this transition feel so abrupt, and how can students better prepare for it?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In fact, he predicted that the changes he’s experimenting with this semester might be jarring to students accustomed to lecture classes. His course expects a “new workflow,” he explains, since it uses adaptive courseware software, as well as a flipped classroom model where lectures are replaced with the interactive material.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The pressure of keeping up with our district’s curriculum map, getting through all the standards and preparing these struggling math students for Algebra I, led me to utter the worst possible sentence in that moment: “Time to start our next unit: Percents, Proportions and Ratios.” My heart sank.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Websites like Khan Academy or Quizlet provide access to lectures, practice tests, and flashcards among other things. Apps like Duolingo for languages, Photomath for math problems, and Anki for spaced repetition flashcards make studying both interactive and fun. Of course, all of the course material can be studied from your computer.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

I went from predominantly whole-group, teacher-led lectures to a more student-centered, personalized way of working with kids. This allowed me to provide valuable feedback long before they shared their piece with their peers or submitted it for a grade. Focusing on decorations and interior design alone is missing the point, however.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s just been like an interesting clumsy thing, but I still feel like when I ask students for feedback, they are really having a good time. And then I get feedback and I try again. And then I get feedback and I try again. So can I grade and give feedback along the way? You can make each other laugh.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. The risk is that we leave out students who can’t pay in the equivalent of the large lecture hall.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Regardless, we’ve met great success, with more than 40 percent of SMA graduates intending to pursue college majors in math or science. Many flip lessons , using videos, websites, and digital presentations rather than traditional lectures. It’s been inspiring, sometimes scary, and it’s still a work-in-progress. Students at St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Instructors play pivotal roles, guiding students through complex concepts, providing immediate feedback, and igniting intellectual curiosity. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

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Learning eLearning Instructors Learning Styles 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Even before the more recent growth of the edtech industry, educators have routinely created games and interactive challenges in order to get students engaged with subjects ranging from math and logic to history and reading. Kasumovic: I'm a university lecturer and I really wanted to get my students a bit more excited about learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

One common type is formative assessment, which occurs during instruction to provide feedback and guide instructional decisions. Finally, self-assessment and peer assessment empower students to reflect on their own learning and provide feedback to their peers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

lectures)” (p. lectures)” (p. Feedback – “providing [students] the opportunity to know what they know, and know what they don’t know” (p. practicing math problems, quizzes, flashcards, teacher lectures, and so on). quizzes and flashcards), rather than cramming information into students’ heads (e.g.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

To accommodate this teaching style, our classrooms are being redesigned from larger, lecture-style spaces into smaller, collaborative rooms conducive to group work. Since we implemented our PBL model, data shows that in one year (2016 to 2017), reading comprehension scores increased 8 percent, math application increased 9 percent.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

These solutions promise to broaden access to quality education, engaging learners who might not make it through impersonal introductory lectures. Students receive individual feedback on their progress and their learning experiences change based on their performance. I get more insight into students.”.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This leaves more time to provide meaningful feedback, which can be more motivating and meaningful than a numerical value. On average, I may also be a harder or easier grader than other professors with respect to specific factors such as grammar, math, reasoning, or content. I provide feedback on points of agreement and divergence.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

From traditional classroom learning methods like lectures and textbooks to innovative technologies such as interactive whiteboards and educational apps, these tools aim to facilitate effective learning experiences and foster student growth.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

TrueShelf , an adaptive learning platform that lets students learn mathematical concepts by helping them solve an unlimited number of math problems and real-world puzzles that get progressively harder as their skills develop. EdSurge: What prompted you to develop an adaptive approach to learning math? Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, she notes that because of the success of their blended program, individual student needs are being met with direct instruction and feedback. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.” The 2015-2016 math scores were similarly impressive, with growth across the board. PARCC Scores-Grade 5 Math.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When I first began flipping my math class in 2010, the ability to screencast, upload video to the web and have students watch lectures at their own pace was exciting and innovative. Monitoring and automated grading features are not only useful for the teacher; real-time feedback is just as important for students.

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