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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. Is there anything that seemed to consistently lose the crowd?

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

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Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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

Faculty Focus

Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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

Edsurge

In an interview with EdSurge, Lynch poses this scenario: As the result of A/B testing on a pair of classrooms, one of the teachers finds themself with students performing worse because of variables they did not control. Especially if you do so without any form of informed consent or the involvement of the instructors.”

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

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However, teachers can require students to do what they don’t like, and if they want the grade, the credential, or the degree, students will do it. Those were variables over which instructors can exercise some control, including: Group size, Free-riding, and Leadership. But will they learn anything in the process?

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

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Also, as teachers we should have empathy for value and purposefully foster attention in the classroom (Lang, 2020). My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. A neuropsychological exploration of Zoom fatigue. Brookes Pub.

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