Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. “You want just enough to get people motivated, but not so much that people feel anxious,” Blunt explains. Blunt inserts a special slide at key points in her slide decks as a prompt to do this.

Multiple Choice Questions

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. Relaxing our commitment to a separate self reflects what behavioral science tells us about effort. This approach aligns with self-determination theory , which highlights autonomy, relatedness, and competence as key drivers of motivation. link] Ryan, R.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. Relaxing our commitment to a separate self reflects what behavioral science tells us about effort. This approach aligns with self-determination theory , which highlights autonomy, relatedness, and competence as key drivers of motivation. link] Ryan, R.

Teaching

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. No one wants to be at the bottom of a leaderboard.

Gamification

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes. Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions.

Lecturing

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.

Lecturing

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? There’s an entire school of thought on this.

Teaching Methods

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.

Art

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?

Science

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.

Lecturing

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.

Exams

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.

Lecturing

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.

Teaching

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.

Science

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.”

Middle School

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?

Students

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.

Science

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.

High School

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?

Learning Spaces

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.

Math

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.

Motivation

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.

Teaching

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.

Technology

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.

Teaching Assistants

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.

Online Learning

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.

Blended Learning

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.

Learning

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.

Coaching

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?

Lecturing

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.,

Disabilities

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.

Quizzes

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.

Blended Learning

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.”

Game-Based Learning

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.

Education

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.

Lecturing

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.

Intelligence

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.

Learning