eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

The internet provides an infinite amount of said distractions: YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok to name a few. Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. Key points: Gamification can help engage students when they might otherwise lose motivation Engaged students are 2.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2015

Most of the 80 million Americans who are part of the millennial generation—a group that comprises the lion’s share of today’s student population—can’t remember a time when they didn’t have instant access to the internet. Next page: Turn lectures into conversations. A growing number of today’s instructors also fall into this group.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Teachers are concerned about: Sending video content home with students who may not have access to the internet or a device. Over the last ten years, I’ve seen excitement about this model turn to skepticism.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2020

If the Ancient Mariner were sailing on the internet’s open seas, he might conclude there’s information everywhere, but nary a drop to drink. That’s how many college students feel, anyway. Some faculty participants, too, seemed unaware of the potential of digital education tools to serve as large-scale tracking devices, Head added.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Every time we conduct an internet search, order something online, or automatically get recommendations for products that we are looking for, there is math at play behind the scenes. While lecturing senior-grade students, I realized that most of them struggled with math despite my best teaching efforts. Where my love of math began.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

Video conferencing that connects students and educators globally for virtual lectures, discussions, and guest speakers. The Internet of Things (IoT) also offers tremendous benefits for educators. Learning management systems (LMS) that facilitate online content delivery, assignments, and grading.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., Unreliable internet and a functioning device can present potential barriers. Students may not have a quiet space to concentrate or responsibilities (e.g.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Have you ever downloaded an online lecture from iTunes? It has a lot of resources for students, including books, videos, lectures, flashcards, and other materials. The platform is user-friendly and can also help teach educators skills needed for internet research, which is essential for digital literacy nowadays.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

It saves hours of scouring the internet to find resources because there is such an abundance of quality supplemental materials found on Discovery Education. These tools are a wonderful way to make history come alive for students who may struggle with traditional textbooks or lectures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

While today’s youth may be aware that not everything on the internet is true, they don’t have the tools to evaluate accuracy and authenticity. Whitehead doesn’t believe in lecturing students about news literacy. Thus, before students even type in a word, online media is already funneling them the news the media thinks they want to see.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

students are unable to access school online, and 42 million Americans don’t have the means to purchase internet access. In Oakland, 98 percent of all students now have a computer and internet service. “Parents and educators should take time to learn more about TikTok to understand the platform and how to reach kids where they are.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

I teach sixth-grade reading to four classes of 20 students, most of whom have no internet access at home. Students today are so accustomed to videos, animation, and gaming that we need to look beyond our traditional tools—textbooks and lectures—to the true promise of what technology can offer in the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2020

There is a caveat: They all hinge on internet connectivity, a challenge that both public and private efforts are moving quickly to try to solve. In Flipped Classroom setups, students learn at home via online coursework and video-recorded lectures, and teachers use class time for teacher-guided practice or projects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2022

Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—is running a new TV ad showing a future in which college students slip on a lightweight VR headset to enter a lecture hall where a professor can toss 3D models of biological cells to students who can pull them apart to demonstrate some concept.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

In fact, he has seen achievement gains that are three times greater than what he experienced when he used to lecture. We all have access to the internet, books, and other people. Mazur has found that his Harvard students are much more engaged in the class—and they also learn more from each other than they learned from him alone.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

At the same time, the reliance on technology brought challenges, including limited access to high-speed home internet, lack of adequate devices for students in low-income households, and difficulties in adapting teaching methods for an online environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

Most of the 80 million Americans who are part of the millennial generation—a group that comprises the lion’s share of today’s student population—can’t remember a time when they didn’t have instant access to the internet. Turn lectures into a 2-way conversation. A growing number of today’s instructors also fall into this group.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

Because technology is such an integral part of the modern world, the days of spending a few hours in the computer lab are long past: Today’s students need complete access to the internet and the hardware they’ll be expected to use in the real world.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

And except for relatively new options by for-profit upstarts, the options haven’t changed much in decades, despite the rise of the internet and a knowledge economy. In 2016, then-MIT dean Christine Ortiz left the university to start a new type of university without lectures or classrooms. College in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2017

Research has shown repeatedly that humans learn more rapidly and deeply from experiences, rather than from a lecture or a book. Much like the introduction of PCs and internet connectivity into classrooms, these technologies are helping institutions do more with less, and are accelerating and improving the learning experience.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kajeet , a provider of IoT connectivity, software and hardware solutions that deliver safe, reliable and controlled internet connectivity to nearly 3,000 customers, announced the launch of its 2022 Homework Gap Grant Program. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2017

Photo Courtesy of Katy Kasmia In one of her introductory lectures, she uses Elon Musk’s Mars colonization efforts to set the tone before the students brainstorm ideas to solve climate change. Her program works to help students rekindle their imaginations so they can think creatively about solving community issues.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With Zoom, for example, students might experience harmful or obscene visuals during “ Zoombombing ”—internet trolling during video conferencing. For instance, moving from in person lectures to video-based lectures without providing accurate closed captions can significantly limit learning for students who are deaf or hard of hearing.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Well, Downes says the problems with requiring registration, even when it’s free, are many—including that it makes it more difficult or even impossible for students to easily find potentially helpful lecture videos in internet searches or for other professors to assign pieces of the courses as resources in their own teaching.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The internet and machine learning is going to totally shake up what education is and how we validate when students have knowledge that we can verify,” argues Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. Except that educators aren’t laughing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses. The Practice May Be Here to Stay.”

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2016

School districts in the United States spend billions of dollars each year to purchase technology for the classroom, yet the lack of technology and internet access in the nation’s public schools continues to be an issue. Would I resort to drill and kill worksheets and lecture-style delivery of instruction?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Talk of the metaverse is everywhere, even though the new, more immersive internet isn’t exactly here yet. But Socrates knew that having a conversation, a dialogue and experience, is so much better than being lectured at. How many times has your audience been lectured at and how much do they remember about the lectures they got?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The project began when Tiina Syrjä, a lecturer in voice and speech at the University of Tampere, in Finland, met an administrator from Coventry University, in Britain, and they decided to organize a collaborative long-distance theater seminar. Coventry University sent Tom Gorman, a senior theater lecturer, to Finland to come up with a plan.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

At stake is whether it is even possible to tame so-called “large language models” like ChatGPT, which are usually trained with information drawn from the internet and are designed to spit out answers that fit predictable patterns rather than hew strictly to reality. And they’re testing the approach in three online courses this summer.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

I wrote a book in 2001 called “ Ruling the Waves ,” which was looking at the internet in historical perspective. And my argument was that while the internet was revolutionary and radical, we have had prior revolutions in communications. The internet is probably not the most important one. So I think that’s a very telling story.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 29, 2024

The Basics of Internet Safety Teachers should emphasize the dangers of sharing personal information online. Understanding Proxy Servers and VPNs Children must understand internet privacy. Thus, pupils should know the difference between proxy servers and VPNs (virtual private networks) and how they impact internet privacy and security.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

It’s essentially internet trolling on video conferencing, involving somebody who takes over the audio and video controls to broadcast inappropriate materials and remarks. But as Zoom has grown in popularity, so have episodes of internet impropriety. Zoombombing doesn’t always involve internet strangers.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Though he’s based at Kansas State University, where he is a professor of cultural anthropology, he’s increasingly kind of a professor-at-large on the internet. For this week’s episode, I connected with Wesch to hear about his vision of how to turn online educational videos into what he calls “adventure lectures.”

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