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How to flip the classroom and create avid learners

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The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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The Case For Applying Cognitive Psychology in Your Classroom

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How Learning Science Happens Cognitive psychologists interested in the science of learning use the laboratory-to-classroom model to conduct research (Weinstein & Sumeracki, 2019). Our research most often begins in the basic laboratory level.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

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In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. Write them down and have it with you as you start the lecture. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action.

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Top STEM Schools in Georgia Host High-Tech Personalized Classes Without Hours of Screentime

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Tables are covered with high-tech laboratory equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, autoclaves, and laboratory water baths. A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation.

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A New Architecture for the University Campus of the Future

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Classrooms and lecture halls may, over time, fade away and become relics of our educational past. We wanted a space that would be a place of collaboration between students and faculty, as well as a place for faculty to present material in ways other than strictly lecture format or lecture with integrated PowerPoint.

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What a Reinvented College Looks Like: 4 Alternative Higher-Ed Models

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What’s different: The campus will have no classrooms and no lectures. Instead, there will be large open spaces for laboratories, and areas designed for students to work in groups. The core of the curriculum will be long-term student projects. There will be no academic departments, and instead every professor will be transdisciplinary.