Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

Over a series of three meetings, my architect asked me countless questions about what I wanted in a home and how I used the space. lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. Identify and Remove Barriers.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Lecture is a common passive learning practice. And while there is some value to lecture and some passive learning strategies, there is a much greater benefit from active learning strategies. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Phenomena-based learning involves leveraging real-world scenarios and observations in learning to help students better understand their environment and uncover the steps necessary to solve problems and answer complex questions. Inquiry-based learning encourages students to ask questions, seek answers, and explore the world around them.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Be open and welcome student questions. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Examine course syllabi to make sure policies (late work, absence, participation grades, etc.) Discuss the need to broaden participation and opportunities for people with disabilities in your department/college.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Here are three effective strategies: Think-Pair-Share : This strategy encourages active participation and collaboration among students. First, students individually reflect on a question or prompt, then they discuss their thoughts with a partner, and finally, they share their ideas with the class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The company was co-founded by Andrew Kimmel, a network television producer ( The Bachelor, Dancing With the Stars, The Great Christmas Light Fight) and former Head of Live Video for BuzzFeed News, as he looked to create a new medium to make viewers active participants with videos.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

Students nationwide participate in the ASU course. The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes. To date, over 225 high schoolers have enrolled in the course.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. A recent Titan Partners survey found that students are eager to participate in on-campus courses with digitally embedded exercises. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

For nearly four decades, Perry Samson didn’t see many students’ hands raised in his large lecture courses. “I In reality, they probably had questions but were afraid to ask them.” Your sense of identity is already kind of questioned because there are so few of you.” We believe part of that is a lack of identity,” Samson says.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

When I asked students, who were a mix of general education students and students with disabilities, to do Harvards Project Zeros see-think-wonder protocol, where they look at an image and consider the ideas and questions it brings up for them, I realized that many students had trouble with thinking and wondering.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

December will mark the end of the 12-week program, and students will present beta versions of their app at a conference for participants. Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” Students built the app using R, an open source programming language.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Adding a competitive element can turn even the most reluctant learners into active participants. Make Math Interactive with Technology Instead of relying solely on lectures, use technology to help students visualize concepts: Desmos for interactive graphing. Quizzes to review material in a high-energy way.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. The software will automatically use your recording to make notes, flashcards and quiz questions,” she says in the promotional video.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

He encouraged every student to raise a hand every time he asked a question, and if someone who was called on didn’t actually know the answer, they were encouraged to recommend someone else in class who might. And encourage those who still have Popsicle sticks to participate. Active learning wins. Trust your students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” Sarin compared a white professor having a computer agent deliver their lecture video in a “Black voice” to a performer in blackface.

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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. Hate it or love – technology in education is here to stay. Parents can feel it, and the numbers back them up.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

UNIVERSE helps teachers solve the engagement problem with a metaverse concept—students and teachers can feel more present and participate in natural conversation. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. And, with UNIVERSE as a solution, you can bring in an instructor or lecturer from a different country. Teachers love that feature.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. In an hour and fifteen minute class, you asked around 20 different questions. Ask questions. With abundant gratitude, Bonni.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

There are still many unanswered questions about what that might look like in practice, as colleges try to balance safety through social distancing while making teaching and other campuses experiences meaningful and effective. These were the questions tackled this week during a live online discussion, part of our monthly EdSurge Live series.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Don’t just use video for lectures; the format can also be used to welcome students to your class, provide feedback (much preferred by students to print feedback) and walk through assignments. You can make lots of small videos instead of whole lectures. Second, you can’t employ too much video. Avoid long videos, though.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So what’s an online professor to do when students just aren’t participating? That’s the question that San Francisco State University professor David Pena Guzman is facing during the pandemic, when, as at so many colleges, his teaching has shifted online. “I They might be on your roster, but they’re ghosting you. If so, how?

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Engage students actively for deeper learning and enhanced academic outcomes Enhance learning through active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking skills Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention.

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Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 141

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Recently, both teachers and parents have started questioning the value in spending long stretches of the day in front of a screen participating in synchronous, online classes. Actively listening to student answers to questions such as “What is your favorite game, website or app?” instead of broad lectures (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2023

You graduated sure you’d never teach to the test or lecture for 90% of a class. One or more will resonate with your teaching style: Don’t answer student questions–show them how to do it themselves. Show students how to find answers to their questions. Questions often don’t have yes-no answers.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2020

Its president, Mitch Daniels, told CNN that some professors will be lecturing from behind clear partitions. The notion drew plenty of questions from professors on social media, who asked whether it was worth it to gather for a lecture behind clear walls. “Is As more than half of U.S. A class is divided into teams of students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

” Another advantage is the fact that they require every student to participate “something in social psychology we call the diffusion of responsibility. rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. It’s crickets. ” Rivers explains.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Often, that meant moving completely away from replicating in-person, lecture-based models online. The expectation of the students was to digest these lessons while also learning to be resourceful, structure and ask questions and collaborate with their peers—things we have always valued in our programs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 1, 2016

Long instructional lectures by teachers are rare. They question the true effectiveness of EdTech and the long-range effect it has on their children. . Some of the most common questions parents have related to EdTech: Is technology a priority in the school my child is attending and what are the technology goals for the school this year?

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