Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Spinning Questions. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

While we recognize that some of these elements require large systems change, we also want to challenge all computer science educators to be the example.Taking computer science, with its long history of exclusion, towards an inclusive future will cause ripple effects across all content areas.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When students can see how the skills they’re learning in the classroom apply to various careers, this helps them answer the all-important question: “Why do I have to learn this?” Schools need to find alternative paths for recruiting CTE instructors. After the pandemic, the shortage of qualified CTE instructors has only grown.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The guide contains examples of how some educators are teaching with ChatGPT, along with a series of frequently-asked questions that may help guide teachers as they seek to strike a balance between accepting AI’s presence and an over-reliance on such tools. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. So I felt like I was able to answer some of their questions, but also re-emphasize that we need to be looking to science at times like this [to learn about the coronavirus].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. In summer 2020, we began a research project at Duke to explore how we could use this data to help us as instructors do our job better. The most common method is through assessment—either via homework or quizzes and tests.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Over the past 15 years, the program has expanded its offerings to include classroom instruction on general computer science, digital technology, mixed media, robotics, esports, and web design. Our instructors are subject matter experts who help guide their exploration by providing them with scenarios and simulations to solve.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Thousands of students go through the university’s life sciences department, he adds, but a lot of them don’t graduate with degrees in those fields.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

We’ve also appointed a bilingual tutor as a liaison to answer questions from families in their native language. To help students achieve this, they strive to bridge the gap between access to high-quality instructors, award-winning AI software, and high-quality instructional resources. About Carnegie Learning, Inc.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. I loved using this tool in a science class. Makr Another AR tool I have utilized with students is Makr.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. before I even ask.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The question is, are we going to have people equipped to fill those jobs?” We have a plan and we’re ready to progress that plan,” said Calvin McNeil, an Advanced Placement computer science instructor with the University of Florida. This isn’t the age of Rosie the Robot taking over jobs–there will be jobs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2022

Many classroom environments favor a certain kind of thinker, usually the students who are quick to recall a fact when the instructor asks a question. She even has a book she co-authored on the topic, called “Uncommonsense teaching: Practical Insights In Brain Science to Help Students Learn.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

The resources, which support students at both the K–12 and college levels, cover a wide range of scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, and physical science. Students can perform their own analysis of the sample data and answer questions based on their results.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. Topics are Explored In-Depth.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Within Sandbox AR, users can create virtual worlds and populate them with some of the hundreds of unique objects from history, the built world, science and nature, and more. In addition, Kiddom’s full suite of interactive question types makes it easy for students to demonstrate understanding in multiple ways. zSpace, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

But as generative AI tools like ChatGPT sweep into mainstream business tools, promising to draft properly-formatted text from simple prompts and the click of a button, new questions are rising about what role writing centers should play — or whether they will be needed in the future. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2023

Some students became questioners, trying to monopolize instructor attention. As an instructor, I was going to need to adapt. Reflecting on each area, here are the classroom management changes I utilized to facilitate positive peer-to-peer and peer-to-instructor relationships. Wow, what mistaken assumptions!

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2023

Some students became questioners, trying to monopolize instructor attention. As an instructor, I was going to need to adapt. Reflecting on each area, here are the classroom management changes I utilized to facilitate positive peer-to-peer and peer-to-instructor relationships. Wow, what mistaken assumptions!

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Instructors Intelligence Classroom Management Communication 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This was true regardless of whether they were pursuing an algebra-intensive major like engineering or physics, or a field like communications, counseling, or political science that doesn’t rely on algebra. Data science courses that teach basic coding along with statistical skills are a novel and engaging way to address those standards.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. Black, Latinx, and women students are especially at risk.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Lisa Wills, executive director of curriculum and instruction for Ector County Independent School District (ISD) in Odessa, Texas, answered these questions and more in a 45-minute session at FETC. These technologies, along with Intelitek’s programs, empower instructors and inspire students to pursue careers in cutting-edge businesses.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2021

Just how faculty and students respond to this question depends heavily on the experiences they had this past year. Those classes included health-care science and law enforcement programs—all groups that require students to demonstrate proficiencies to earn their credentials.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. What a good question. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In fact, many college instructors have been downright grumpy about having been thrown into a new teaching format. Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But the shift to online instruction can be challenging for some instructors who have spent most of their academic careers teaching (and learning) face-to-face. In fact, Sharp noted, some of the instructors at Marist who face the steepest learning curves teach computer science. Enrollment in online courses is rising.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2019

With teachers, parents, administrators, taxpayers, politicians, employers, academics and students themselves all concerned about learning success, it is no surprise that the questions asked and answers proposed about which education practices are best differ widely.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. When class is in session, the instructor or an assistant will record which students spoke during class using the app. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. We’ve really learned that the most important thing is to keep people motivated,” says Bozena Pajak, director of the learning science team at Duolingo, a language learning app developer. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

As conversations began about how I might make the greatest contribution, I quickly identified the sense of meaning and purpose I get out of addressing questions that people have about teaching through my Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. Do you have a question about teaching in a higher education context?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

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