Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

” I get this question a lot, so I want to start by highlighting a few of the benefits of flipped instruction and flipped modeling. Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” ” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. This encourages brainstorming and prediction.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., 3-2-1 Reflection: As students watch the video, ask them to identify three things they learned (facts/information), two connections they made, and one question they have.

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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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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What did they do well?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

That’s the view of Jesse Stommel, a digital learning fellow and senior lecturer at the University of Mary Washington. “I Except—striving for continuity may be a bit delusional right now. Or it may be an effort that betrays misplaced priorities. I don’t want there to be ‘continuity.’ I want my students to deal with their lives,” he says. “I

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

You might feel that way about Brilliant –a site that helps users learn not through lecture videos, but through hands-on, interactive learning. Sparks questions. Every now and then, a new resource comes along that’s worth a second–or third, or fourth–look. Effective learning: 1. Cultivates curiosity 3.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rather than watch a lecture in class and complete homework at home, students would watch a video lecture at home and do the “homework” in class. Question everything. When I committed to flipping, I realized that it would only work if I were prepared to question everything. Flipping the grading.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It is increasingly clear that a key question we will all be answering in the coming school year will be: What should the role of technology be in K-12 education? This isn’t a new question, but one that is likely to take center stage this year. Yet, most classrooms today are still dependent on live lectures and fixed-paced learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Begin with a collaborative offline activity designed to pique student interest or get them generating questions about a topic. First, teachers need to create context. Second, flip and engage.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

If teachers spend the majority of their class lecturing or transferring information, there isn’t time for consistent, real-time feedback. The main reason most teachers spend hours grading outside of their school day is because of lack of time. I believe this lack of time stems from our approach to teaching.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In having a real person respond directly to user questions, it gives the experience of a real conversation – something that isn’t available with chatbots or animations, but is desperately needed at this time,” said Kimmel. I see substantial potential for personalized instruction like this moving forward,” said Mr. Walters.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM is incredibly important, specifically for skills like critical thinking and problem solving,” said Dr. Erika Neuman, CEO of iSTEMmentors and a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, during an ISTELive 24 session. Ask a question 2. Design, such as putting a pencil to paper or using a program 4.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The “Bored Board” can help give students options and eliminate the question, “ I’m done, now what? Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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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. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what? Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Labster makes an educator’s job easier, integrating with the most popular LMS (learning management system) platforms and freeing up their time by automatically grading quiz questions and providing them with a dashboard of student performance data. www.labster.com.

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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

APRIL 5, 2024

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. Elaborative Interrogation : Asking and answering “why” questions about the material deepens understanding and promotes critical thinking.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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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. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

If you’re unsure where to begin, ask the chatbot for help brainstorming lesson ideas and then ask follow-up questions until you get something you can use. Questions such as these can help guide the conversation: What do you need to learn about AI, and how can you gain that knowledge? Engage in the conversation.

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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 22, 2018

For teachers who want to tackle media and cultural studies, the Critical Media Project offers a wide selection of ready-to-use and school-appropriate media clips and discussion questions, filtered by topic (age, race and ethnicity, religion, gender, LGBTQ, ability).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He argues that the traditional lecture method for teaching physics and other STEM fields has been proven ineffective, and that shifts to more active methods can greatly improve learning outcomes to make sure the next generation of researchers can make the next Nobel-worthy breakthroughs. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting.

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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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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” On top of that, almost 80 percent of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom. said Dr. Jenny Nash, Head of Education Impact, U.S. for LEGO Education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Be open and welcome student questions. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Provide multiple sources and access points for assignment requirements and expectations (written descriptions, presentations, instructional videos, examples, rubrics).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. But it turns out that just having a professor’s face on the screen isn’t always a benefit. It’s a complicated problem,” he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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