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Getting pre-service teachers comfortable using and teaching with STEAM tools

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Fortunately, a year prior, one of my 4th-year senior capstone students had prior experience with high school robotics and was interested in finding a screen-free way to introduce robotics to Dean College’s Children’s Center. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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On the First Day of Class, Begin with Intrigue

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Takayama continues, noting that by and large our students also occupy a liminal space, transitioning between stages, whether that’s from high school to career or one career phase to another. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture.

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

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Classes aren’t led by a lone professor lecturing at the front of the classroom, but by teams of educators, with at least three virtual instructors and as many as ten to fifteen assigned to larger classes. Over their working lives, on average, college graduates earn twice what high school grads make.

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On the First Day of Class, Begin with Intrigue

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Takayama continues, noting that by and large our students also occupy a liminal space, transitioning between stages, whether that’s from high school to career or one career phase to another. I know, I know, there are a whole slew of objections we can raise against this approach: I can’t do this in a big lecture.

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Why Is It so Hard to Teach K-12 Educators How to Personalize Learning?

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I am a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland in the Educational Technology Program for the School of Education. My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters.

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Creating a Sense of Belonging through Instructor Social Presence

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To offset students’ feelings of being “the only one” and to help develop feelings of connection, instructors in online courses may make use of strategies such as personal online introductions by faculty and students, discussion assignments, group projects, occasional video lectures, and Zoom office hours. Who is my instructor?”

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‘It’s A Blockbuster Moment’: How One Author Wants to Make Academia More Memorable

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And during the keynote he challenged educators by asking: “How do we create more academic peak moments in school?” He gave an example of two teachers from Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif. These moments don’t just happen, and educators must plan and execute them, he posited. Or they still are able to do __.