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Letting Students Lead the Learning

Catlin Tucker

According to a Gallup Student Poll (2015) of public school children, 47% report being “disengaged” at school. I realize this goes far beyond simply shifting away from a lecture model. When students leave high school, they will be expected to successfully navigate myriad challenges and novel situations.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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The future of learning spaces is open ended

eSchool News

Schools at their heart should be human potentiality incubators. A few years ago, I found myself designing learning spaces for new school models of learning. The Playmaker school in Los Angeles became a canvas to explore these ideas. The school model was to make every day interactive, playful and creative.

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What If Students Are the Biggest Barrier to Innovation?

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For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. One student wrote me this email saying he went to business school, was a professional, and had never spent so much time one assignment.

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How to Significantly Improve Student Engagement and Retained Learning in Higher Education

Faculty Focus

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

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Watkins is a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing, an optional program for faculty. “We Seeking Policy Guidance Since the release of ChatGPT, many schools and colleges have rushed to create policies on the appropriate use of AI.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

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During my early days of teaching in graduate school, educational technology was sold more for its posh than performance. And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space.