Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Ideally, educators want students to discover the joy of learning and be motivated by intrinsic rewards. This is the mission of Michael Kasumovic and Arludo who are bringing gaming to the natural sciences. Ideally, educators want students to discover the joy of learning and be motivated by intrinsic rewards. What is beauty?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? We actually wrote a post for our Teaching Center’s blog with that title, “Is teaching an art or a science?” Just how do humans learn? I think it’s both.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This often includes IT classes, science, advanced mathematics and economics or technology, whichever your school offers. Have Online Education Systems Replaced Traditional Lectures? One of the biggest is self-efficacy and motivation. You have to manage your time well and constantly motivate yourself because no one else will.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

So then, why do so many educators lecture and click through PowerPoints for 30-,40-, or even 60-minutes at a time with no breaks or learning activities? Reflecting on my experiences as a student, I know how tough it is to pay attention during these longer lectures and wish instructors had a different way to deliver them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

Now, a decade later, I see the same clicker-like trend: tools like Kahoot, Quizlet, Quizizz and Plickers are wildly popular due to the increased student engagement and motivation they can provide. Yes, many of us are already using strategies based on the science of learning. But we have the power to do so much more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Building this app and seeing what other schools are doing reinforces how much education is a community effort,” says Haiman Wong, an American University data science graduate student. Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

And with Outlier, students can choose from popular dual-enrollment courses, such as Intro to Psychology and Computer Science , that are delivered online and asynchronously, allowing them to earn high school and college credit from the comfort of their own school building.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Studies show that students in remote settings often feel isolated, which can lead to decreased motivation and engagement. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Focus on learning more about the student’s goals and motivations, and look into potential professors before the semester starts. When trying to figure out the best major for a prospective student, focus on understanding their needs and motivations. million more over their entire lifetime. What questions keep them up at night?

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Antonio’s mother had been in touch with his science teacher and was brave enough to allow her son to hatch praying mantis eggs in their basement as part of his research. Antonio was just one of the memorable students in my first science research class at Christ the King Regional High School, a parochial school in Queens, New York.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Keeping lecture notes, study guides, and other resources well-organized saves time and reduces the frustration of searching for materials during study sessions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Whether launching school projects, openly exploring math and science concepts, constructing novel inventions or imagining innovative companies; this kind of a space symbolizes birth. In this space, educators are not positioned as lecturers, at the front of a class. A room for adventure. What follows birth?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This challenging mathematics course prepares students for further studies in engineering, computer science, data science, and natural sciences, as well as theoretical mathematics. This course is a prerequisite for many Stanford computer science and engineering courses. ” The course format is partially synchronous.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

There isn’t one solution for increasing learner engagement and motivation. When it comes to learning, engagement is influenced by a learner's level of motivation, focus and cognitive ability as well as online course design and a teacher's decisions regarding facilitation style.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

There’s an outsized focus today on science, technology, engineering and math, known as STEM (or STEAM if you prefer to include “arts”) and for good reason. For most of them, however, that wasn’t their real motivation; learning was, and we didn’t feel we were making much progress. Principal, on your middle school’s new STEM curriculum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

I could have lectured him that, in fact, there were no bugmen, and that his view did not comport with reality. We create an artificial world where subjects like history, science, and physical education are separated into distinct, and unreal, classes without reference to each other.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

Goel, a professor of computer science and human-centered computing at the university leading the creation of Jill Watson, devised an unusual plan. The plan is to train Jill Watson on the specific materials of any course it is being used for, by feeding in the text of lecture videos and slides, as well as the contents of the textbook.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. But in the midst of all of this, we’re learning and experimenting together on how best to engage and motivate students and teachers online. Heck, I don’t even like doing that.

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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. As our colleagues pointed out, they lacked intrinsic motivation and independent work skills. We’d heard these arguments before but we weren’t convinced.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

They motivate and guide their students to accomplish their goals. Since we’ve discovered that teaching is mostly about motivation, that matters because for faculty, motivation was usually not the primary problem. This fitness coach knows about equipment, knows about your body but mostly they get paid because they’re motivators.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Interestingly, before this point, Jeslyn and her peers had always needed my guidance on these kinds of projects; all of a sudden, they were working bell-to-bell, motivated by their passion for the issue. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

All of these features stand in stark contrast to traditional courses, where students are expected to attend local lectures, complete all assignments, and attain a passing grade. Mazariegos had several advantages on her side that kept her motivated, including the fact she took the MOOC with friends. Researchers Justin Reich and Jose?

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

With support from school administrators, they have created an accessible weekly approach to distance science learning that emphasizes hands-on experimentation, the use of common household materials, student explanation and the development of science literacy. At East High School in Rochester, N.Y., Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It did not replace recess or Morning Circle or read-alouds or classroom discussions or science experiments or any of the other incredibly valuable whole-class experiences. Are they going to implode if they learn some history and science from BrainPop? I had to get over my self-imposed fear of screens and challenge my own assumptions.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A number of educators across the country are finding great value in ‘learning science’ books such as Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning. lectures)” (p. 33) and that “Repetition is good for learning but terrible for motivation” (p. Probably not often…” (p.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

People in rural Bhutan could take a computer science class from Harvard. Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2018

As first reported by Inside Higher Ed, Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education, will be working for Amazon as the company’s Director of Learning Science and Engineering. Our algorithms work,” I would argue that’s alchemy, not science ,” she told EdSurge last November.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. You hear people say, “I’m no good at math” or “I’m no good at science.” EdSurge: First things first. I need to try again until I win.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. We have the ability to inspire our students wonder and curiosity in ways that will inspire them to be intrinsically motivated to learn and to keep learning. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

It’s an interaction that might have seemed like science fiction a couple of years ago. 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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2023

Professors and lecturers from MIT and the Education University of Hong Kong (EDUHK) provided 78 hours of training to the first batch of teachers to explore and learn the CoolThink curriculum. The CoolThink curriculum is motivating and interactive, inspiring students to create, experiment and debug with less direction from teachers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners. For instance, students might work together to design and build a model bridge, integrating concepts from science, engineering, and mathematics.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Additionally, research asserts that specific practices associated with growth mindset highly impact student motivation, learning, and achievement (Dweck, 2008; Barber, van Oostveen, and Childs, 2019). Finally, I encourage the use of Motivation , a motivational app to stay inspired. Education Sciences 12, no. Dweck, Carol.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

A second monitor can be added to the setup for the instructor to view any lecture notes or to serve as a teleprompter that can be controlled through a laptop connected to the Lightboard CPU module. Science Cell Instructor draws a cell, labels the various parts, and explains how it functions. Example could relate to business scenario.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

But only recently have they entered the mainstream dialogue, thanks to ready access to technology for research and data collection, along with the introduction of new state and national standards, such as Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards, which put greater emphasis on problem solving over fact memorization.

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