Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.).

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. Learning stations are a great way to keep them engaged. Apps like these help kids explore math concepts at their own pace while making learning an adventure.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. It’s crickets.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. Rethink Participation Not everyone feels comfortable speaking up in class. The post When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. Rethink Participation Not everyone feels comfortable speaking up in class. The post When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. In this mode, the professor’s authority, preferences, expertise, and goals (“learning outcomes”), even body, take center stage. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. 1 Get To Know Your Students.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. What’s the Use of Lectures? In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

During this time of social isolation and remote learning, these video conferencing tools are lifesavers. They make it possible for teachers to maintain a human connection with their students and guide their learning from a distance. 1 Small Group Instruction. TeachingVideoConf. 2 Facilitate a Small Group Discussion.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. Immersive learning is meant to mimic the real world by providing students with an environment that is as close to reality as possible. What is immersive learning?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Last night I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for students in the credential program at UC Riverside. As I was planning my presentation, I knew I wanted to engage the group attending my lecture. I decided to use Mentimeter to encourage audience participation throughout my presentation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

The pandemic has necessitated the widespread adoption of virtual learning, but if it’s going to be a primary and effective learning tool for the foreseeable future, we have some serious work to do. In the present moment, we must consider improving virtual learning as an imperative task.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

But the biggest challenge is trying to get my students to rethink what it means to be a learner and rethink what learning looks like. It was naïve of me to think I could change their perception of learning over night. We believe the first step in creating is creating your learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here’s Why Kids Should Participate in Extracurricular Activities Most parents ignore this, but playtime activities significantly contribute to a child’s overall development. The key to raising children successfully is acknowledging that learning doesn’t take place only within the classroom environment.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. That way, they can use their synchronous time for more engaging and differentiated learning experiences. Instead, they can spend more time facilitating learning and working directly with small groups of students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

In general, students are drawn to maps and globes in the classroom and the beauty of the interactive map is that it allows them to zoom in, pan, and click on specific regions or events, which encourages even more active participation and sparks their curiosity.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Key points: A love of learning can lead to a lifetime of learning How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum Here’s how schools can better support neurodiverse students For more news on instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Curiosity is a fountain of opportunity for all educators.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

AuraNexus has partnered with the Marymount School of New York to debut its EdTech interactive video platform providing students and teachers with personalized learning at scale. The goal here is to empower students to be curious and learn without limitations. What we are doing now is only scratching the surface,” said Kimmel.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. The data on this is clear.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

A 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers. But Kevin Chu, director of ViewSonic, purports a 3D immersive environment fosters healthy social interactions while reducing learning barriers for any kind of learning that happens online. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

SAN DIEGO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ClassIn , a world leader in hybrid, blended, and remote learning solutions, today announced the launch of its globally recognized platform in the United States. It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. We’re at an inflection point.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2017

Digital learning opportunities are widely available and abundant today. Students can benefit from the availability of virtual learning experiences, not just in augmenting their current learning experiences, but in helping to prepare them for the real world. Participate in a MOOC that covers a subject/skill he or she is lacking.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

Most anticipate the growing centrality of online learning in university life. As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. Liberating campus-bound faculty. three or four days.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are three active learning strategies? Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. Here are three effective strategies: Think-Pair-Share : This strategy encourages active participation and collaboration among students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024! What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom?

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