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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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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?

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Especially if you do so without any form of informed consent or the involvement of the instructors.” He adds that the discussion is ultimately one among practitioners about methods and what’s ethical. “It It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How do we determine what’s a safe thing to test and what's not?”

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

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Incorporate mindful use of instructor language/actions/words. Social Awareness Provide space for collaboration with each other and with the instructor. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy Exposure to the scientific community and its methods enhances students’ and amateur volunteer scientists’ approaches toward specific problems. Author bio Sophia is an online ESL/EFL instructor and a passionate Science educator.

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

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Incorporate mindful use of instructor language/actions/words. Social Awareness Provide space for collaboration with each other and with the instructor. Gurpreet Sahmbi is an educator at the University of Toronto in mathematics education and research methods in teacher education.

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

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A large and comprehensive study involving 14 sections and 263 students enrolled in an intermediate sociology research methods course tackled that question in the context of a four-week group research project (Monson, 2019). The study looked at and controlled for an amazing array of variables.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

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My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

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