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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

Edsurge

EdSurge: In researching this book, you write that you spent two years looking at distraction in classrooms. Can you talk about some of your research methods? Lang: There were two strains of research I conducted for the book.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

Edsurge

You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample. But if researchers are A/B testing two innocuous options, what’s the harm? Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

It is clear that PSTs are passionate about teaching, learning, and bringing about change in their future classrooms. For this reason, highlighting and leveraging aspects of learning they are both interested in and have confidence in becomes critical as we work to unlearn so many years of damaging experiences as mathematics learners.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Practical Learning Scientific research involves several ground realities and interdisciplinary aspects that students and the general public are not exposed to. Participation in community science undertakings allows these groups to become more acquainted with these nuanced features of scientific research.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

It is clear that PSTs are passionate about teaching, learning, and bringing about change in their future classrooms. For this reason, highlighting and leveraging aspects of learning they are both interested in and have confidence in becomes critical as we work to unlearn so many years of damaging experiences as mathematics learners.

Math 97
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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

Faculty Focus

From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment?

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

Faculty Focus

From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. Those negative attitudes about groups lead to a larger question: Can students still learn even if they don’t like the instructional approach, activity, or assignment?