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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

Could approaching the design, instruction, and facilitation of learning (in class, online, or a combination of the two) with a “would you rather” lens improve student motivation and engagement? Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018).

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New Slate of Inspiring and Engaging Standards-Aligned Content Added to Discovery Education Experience for Back-to-School 2025

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. “Meet the Magnets” Virtual Field Trip (Grades K-5) Hosted by Sesame Workshop and the National Science Foundation (NSF), this interactive experience takes young learners to NSFs Magnetic Field Laboratory, igniting their curiosity about the everyday applications of magnet science in our lives.

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Remote Science Instruction White Paper Series

eSchool News

She explores how students develop authentic laboratory skills when working remotely or individually in a classroom. She considers how to motivate students if they are pulled out of school again or need to do a lab on their own at school.

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A Surprising Approach to Science Labs for Online Students Boosts Access to STEM Fields

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Institutions are using virtual reality programs to immerse students in laboratory simulations. At 17, she says, her motivation for being in college was not a hunger to learn new things. “I Students work in campus laboratories from 8 a.m. When it comes to teaching science courses online, colleges are getting creative.

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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

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But his book, and that demo, are also attracting some pushback from teaching experts who think AI may have lots of uses in education, but that tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. I got in line to take a course with Marvin Minsky and got in. So the AIs are going to get better.

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How a Science Research Program Taught Students to Pursue Futures Fueled by Passion

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There would be a focus on research, writing and oral presentation skills. In 12th grade students would write a formal research paper and use their findings to enter numerous competitions, including the most prestigious of all at that time, the Intel Talent Search. How could all of this fit in to a student’s scheduled day?

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Lightboards as a Learning Tool in Adult Asynchronous Online Learning

Faculty Focus

A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Instructors who use a Lightboard to create instruction for asynchronous online learning can replicate what they would do in a traditional classroom when they draw or write on a whiteboard.