Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Students these days are distracted. That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. It’s a surprisingly optimistic take on the topic—it goes out of its way not to blame students or urge blanket tech bans.

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Instructors Attention Education Lecturing 218

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. 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. It carries with it the question of, what’s benign?

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Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

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Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Our students come to us with varying backgrounds; some have recently completed their undergraduate degrees, while others are looking to change their career trajectory. Asking questions about what a potential elementary-aged student might find challenging, where a misconception might come up, etc., makes PSTs the expert in the room.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. When the group project goes poorly, the content is compromised, and students turn their backs on group work. Can Students Learn While Doing Things They Don’t Like?

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Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Apart from providing researchers with much-needed support, citizen science exposes interested non-professionals or students to the realities of scientific work. This provides aspiring scientists and amateur contributors with much-needed knowledge of the scientific method. Why is Citizen Science Important?

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