Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Congress is proposing an innovative approach to building the federal technology talent pipeline for computer science roles, one that should be exciting for schools and students. The JROTC program prepares young students for a future career in defense through relevant classes and extracurricular activities. On June 14, 2019, Reps.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. Johnathan Gajdos Students come to the institute, located on an army installation, to learn one of 16 languages that the military prioritizes for its purposes.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I always require students to talk to at least 10 people.

Laboratory 98

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 111

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Yet when we speak about “every student” and “all children,” do we really believe those words at our core? At Newington Public Schools (NPS) in Connecticut, the belief in all students is at the heart of every decision we make. In part, it's because of the diverse group of students we serve. The secret to our success?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Key points: AI, well-being, and career readiness take top billing for educators Back-to-school predictions for the 2024-2025 year 4 educator reflections on the 2023-2024 school year For more news on teaching trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub With a new school year comes new priorities for educators and students alike.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

For over two decades, Dr. Kendall Martin has been introducing her students at Montgomery County Community College to a new superpower you won’t find inside the pages of a comic book. Why don’t you go learn to do hair?’” Martin’s efforts to change the lives of her students for the better is now being celebrated.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training. Some lightboards can be setup to be one button studios controlled exclusively by the instructor.

Online Learning 98

Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

Now, we’re highlighting some excellent examples of how schools are innovating, from listening to students’ requests for the kind of tools they’d like to use, to supporting librarians as they lead the digital transformation. Today’s students are a uniquely interactive group. But it wasn’t always this way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The California Community College (CCC) Maker Initiative will support nearly one third of the state system’s colleges—and their entrepreneurial students, innovative faculty, and unique makerspaces. million full and part-time community college students comprise the largest system of higher education in the United States. As part of the.

Laboratory 138

Laboratory Instructors Art STEM 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

Ubiquitous learning—the idea that everywhere you go, you’re learning all the time—lets us take advantage of the concept that in every interaction, there may be opportunities for students to engage with our subject matter if we can just get them into that holistic thinking mode. I always require students to talk to at least 10 people.

Laboratory 77

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 77

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts: As I reflect on two decades of work in the clean energy education space, I become increasingly convinced that the key to impacting students is people. Inspiring educators is critical to moving a clean energy economy forward.

Schools 338

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

A defining quality of student-centred teaching is effective assessments. This contrasts with the typical assessment arrangement where feedback is considered a product offered to the student in exchange for what they submit. This thus limits students active knowledge consumption and self-regulated learning.

Feedback 83

Feedback Lecturing Laboratory Students 83

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis. Apart from providing researchers with much-needed support, citizen science exposes interested non-professionals or students to the realities of scientific work. Why is Citizen Science Important?

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Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

Kimberly Ideus , Emporia State University Ning Sui, North Carolina State University Key Statement: Transparency in a lab report template and rubric enhances the scientific integrity for undergraduate biochemistry students in laboratory courses. Different instructors have disparate expectations when it comes to completing these reports.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Dewey and Kolb suggest that reflection is critical for learning to occur; however, it is not just students who benefit from reflection, those who teach can also benefit from reflecting about their teaching (Brookfield, 1998). For example, a teacher leads an in-class discussion in which the majority of students are hesitant to participate.

Teaching 115

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 115

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Dewey and Kolb suggest that reflection is critical for learning to occur; however, it is not just students who benefit from reflection, those who teach can also benefit from reflecting about their teaching (Brookfield, 1998). For example, a teacher leads an in-class discussion in which the majority of students are hesitant to participate.

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Developed by OpenAI, “an artificial intelligence research laboratory,…the history of ChatGPT can be traced back to the original GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model, which was introduced” in June 2018 (ChatGPT, 2023). But, again, for my students, this was not a writing assignment.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Faculty Focus

MARCH 23, 2025

A defining quality of student-centred teaching is effective assessments. This contrasts with the typical assessment arrangement where feedback is considered a product offered to the student in exchange for what they submit. This thus limits students active knowledge consumption and self-regulated learning.

Feedback 53

Feedback Lecturing Laboratory Students 53

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The technology could be used both in conversations among scholars about papers, or in the classroom by having students annotate articles, which could add more value to the Elsevier journals. Higher education leaders have been watching Elsevier’s overall strategy with caution—and some concern.

Laboratory 75

Laboratory Peer Review Instructors Science 75

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Through interactive discussions and sharing of ideas, educators can learn from each other and develop new and innovative ways of effectively interacting with students, a significant component of student success in online learning (Jaggars & XU, 2016).

Online Learning 110

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 110

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Through interactive discussions and sharing of ideas, educators can learn from each other and develop new and innovative ways of effectively interacting with students, a significant component of student success in online learning (Jaggars & XU, 2016).

Online Learning 96

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 96

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. And people are perfectly fine developing their courses, buying large textbooks, or asking your students to buy large textbooks, and then just selecting stuff out of that that they're going to use as the foundational material to teach from.

Teaching 96

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

Education 218

Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Tech Engages Today’s Students, But Teachers Need Support. This generation of students is beyond tech-savvy and could be described as tech-innate. How will you use educational technology to create opportunities for cognitive differentiation among your students in the lessons? meghan.bogardu…. Tue, 02/06/2018 - 09:13. CDW Segment.

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Teachers Laboratory Evaluation Students 151

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 19, 2018

Augmented Reality (AR) is exactly what it sounds like — students learn more about what they see. When students unpack learning via augmented reality, they want more, don’t want to leave, and are willing to solve complex math problems and understand deep concepts just so they can see what else comes with augmented reality.

Laboratory 138

Laboratory Mobile Devices Instructors Internet 138

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Many students have chosen to defer or to forego their education completely. Lectures work, especially if the instructor is particularly compelling. But laboratory instruction is harder—as are other hands-on teaching methods. Students’ faces slip from one screen to the next as new people join in.

Education 210

Education Lecturing Laboratory Instructors 210

Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

However, none of these became ubiquitous because of a lack of student engagement, extra workload on faculty, or some other reason that has kept the traditional lecture viable. Additionally, students can follow along virtually as instructors point out different structures. For example, Ardissone et al.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 9, 2023

However, none of these became ubiquitous because of a lack of student engagement, extra workload on faculty, or some other reason that has kept the traditional lecture viable. Additionally, students can follow along virtually as instructors point out different structures. For example, Ardissone et al.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Course Design Blended Courses Instructors 98

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the world’s most famous universities. Each of the five courses lasts between two and four weeks, and students who successfully complete all five get a certificate. But that isn’t always happening. After all, the Deeplearning.ai

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Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 140