Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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JULY 24, 2024

Teachers no longer lecture from a dais with student learning contained within the schoolhouse walls. Because of this, educators have come to expect students to participate actively in the learning process and transfer their knowledge from the classroom to life. Education has changed. Students have become digital citizens.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

It’s a knowledge deficiency that can lead schools—and in turn, students—in the wrong direction. Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. Coditum , SummerTech’s Hoboken-based coding lab, earlier this year joined forces with Hoboken Middle School.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access. The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Italian Learning Ecosystems: the School Teachers’ Perspective at the steady state.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. We have seen this transformation first-hand here at Arizona Science Center’s CREATE makerspace , where I work. How does that look?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. But no one stopped this Henry County seventh-grader when he stomped on the gas. He accelerated two years ahead of his classmates in math and is now doing freshman-level work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. This was,” Elizalde explains, “the initial assessment for a framework called the Learning Record.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback." But we were also expected to participate within this online environment that was created through our school. Why are you interested in this topic?

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JANUARY 17, 2018

Children as young as two are utilizing tablets, exploring the apps on smartphones, and accessing knowledge via the internet. As online resources develop and create more curricula, teachers will transform classroom dynamics by devoting less time to lecturing and spending more time enriching and mentoring. About the Author.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games.

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MARCH 11, 2016

If you aren’t using blogs by Middle School, the only question is: Why not? Note-taking doesn’t usually start until fourth/fifth grade, maybe even as late as Middle School. The upside of a flipped classroom is it puts students in the driver’s seat and insures teachers act as guides rather than lecturers.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Learning is personalized, based on school standards. In a Mastery-Based program, a successful student is no longer defined as the one who arrives at school on time, homework completed, in their seat attentively listening to a teacher lecture.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Today, I want to talk about podcasts, webinars, and screencasts of knowledgeable educators who quickly can become your trusted advisors on a wide variety of education topics. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and author with broad pedagogical and technical knowledge, down-to-earth honest, and a sense of humor.

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Whatever we call it, a seminar is different from a talk/recitation/ lecture-with-discussion. The goal is not the acquisition of knowledge via the expert; the aim is student understanding via active thinking out loud and probing of ideas by all students.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. Wait, what? I spoke up. Shouldn’t you know that?

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

They communicate a message with audio, visual, motion, color, and spatial details, making videos much more effective than traditional approaches like reading from a text, lecturing, or showing a slideshow. So why shouldn’t students create videos when constructing knowledge for formative or summative assessments?

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JULY 13, 2016

a quiz to test knowledge. It is well-designed, full of facts, with excellent graphics that convey visually the lecture-type presentation. It is well-suited to Middle School civics classes. Once students are familiar with the Supreme Court, test their new knowledge with the games. The site includes: a summary.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

Lecture capture became mature and campus video management and hosting services began to attract attention. Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. By Kelly Bielefeld, Clearwater Intermediate and Middle School. The rise of video carried over into education. Conferences ran streaming video events.

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