Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus. Now, think about your students.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Maybe even a rewarding one (yes, you read that right). Invest in Quality Online Study Resources There’s no reason to study like a monk – the internet is full of diverse study materials that cater to different learning styles , including yours. Use Time-Management Tools Let’s start with the basics: time management.

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Exams Study Syllabus Testing 157

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s pretty much the opposite of the way the internet and social media have traditionally treated information, which is to make it easy to make exact copies of something to spread to as many people as possible. “If One is that what we’re selling is a jpg of this article, not the version of the article you are reading right now.

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Textbooks Education Syllabus Writing 197

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus. Now, think about your students.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. Yes, we would post weekly announcements, but at times, they were not always read by the students.

Learning 111

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 111

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2023

They provide a quick way to access a webpage that could be the syllabus, a poll, a list of resources, or a shared online space for a brainstorming activity. They are posted on a shared digital board such as Padlet, a Google doc, or Jamboard that everyone can contribute to and read. The entry ticket asks students to answer a question.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Syllabus Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I typically don’t describe the idea in the syllabus. What examples would you give from our readings or from pop culture or media sources? Before we take on ethics in the reading for today, let’s go back and take a look at that.”. I’d like to share one way to encourage more learning between class meetings. Do you agree?

Ethics 98

Ethics Minute Papers Syllabus Course Evaluations 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. Yes, we would post weekly announcements, but at times, they were not always read by the students.

Learning 98

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 98

Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 18, 2016

Even though a majority of kids now have unlimited access to social media and the Internet in their hands, it doesn’t mean that they have the necessary tools needed to handle everything responsibly. Have we talked about the permanence of the Internet and the potential impact on the futures? Preparing Students For Smartphone Ownership.

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Syllabus Internet Writing Activities 66

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

caretaker, internet concerns). For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. Elicits aspects of students’ lived experiences that might hinder their course completion.

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Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 110

Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

caretaker, internet concerns). For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. Elicits aspects of students’ lived experiences that might hinder their course completion.

Instructors 105

Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Study.com includes standards alignment in the Collection Details that can be found under the Syllabus tab. Read Jacqui’s tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

It was run like a flipped classroom where class members read, tested and experimented from resources available in the weekly syllabus. All students understood the importance of teaching digital citizenship, but often there was no cohesive plan to organically blend lessons into classes where students use the internet.

Gamification 68

Gamification Syllabus Failure Internet 68

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Drawing on Baraniuk’s interest in personalized learning, the tool incorporates cognitive psychology research and machine learning tools to guide students through reading and studying, aiming not only to assess their learning, but also improve it. Tutor pushes beyond simple multiple-choice quizzes. There’s flexibility,” he adds. “I

Textbooks 118

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 118

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Welcome to the Hidden Curriculum of the Internet We often imagine learning as something that happens within school walls, books opened, teachers talking, students taking notes. This is the hidden curriculum of the internet, which aids online learning. But in 2025, that idea is rapidly fading. This is informal learning. And guess what?

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Blogs 7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach Every historic innovation that has shaped the way people access and use knowledge, from the printing press to the internet, has brought transformative changes to universities. Ready to embrace AI?

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

During two intense hours, three adult students and an instructor read aloud from the “Odyssey.” Throughout the pandemic, versions of this close-reading conversation have taken place week after week. And they raise new questions, about who should read those works, and how and why. “A They analyze its weaving imagery.

Art 218

Art Instructors Study Reading 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Or the internet. Although it’s true that reading Foucault can teach “critical thinking,” and studying quantum mechanics can reinforce “quantitative reasoning,” plenty of educators and academics would argue that to slice and dice a college syllabus into skills segments would be to miss the point. Like the steam engine.

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Skills Intelligence Syllabus Language 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. I put that question to John Warner, author of “Why They Can't Write” and a former editor at the online humor site, McSweeney's Internet Tendency. The joke is like, I can't get them to read the syllabus. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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English Writing Culture Syllabus 120