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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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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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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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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

During a panel on the importance of STEM education for women, she explained what it’s like to be a female student competing in a male-dominated program: “Not only were we the only all-girls robotics team,” she explained of a recent competition, “we were the only team that actually allowed girls to touch the robots.” or GoFormative quizzes.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In addition, Kiddom’s full suite of interactive question types makes it easy for students to demonstrate understanding in multiple ways. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely. As a managed service, it’s no extra work for IT. zSpace, Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2018

Districts around the country are moving away from teaching models based on lectures and textbooks—but transition isn’t always simple. As the director of curriculum, I help students answer the age-old question, “Why do I need to know this?” Caroline Messenger, director of curriculum at Naugatuck Public Schools.

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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. Broadly, what do you think should change?

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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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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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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

If a professor is delivering a lecture and he doesn’t look up to see whether half the class is asleep, we can use facial recognition to depict emotions (such as boredom) and send the professor a message. Pischdotchian: Hence the importance of STEAM [science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics] instead of STEM. Psychology.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

Reworking lessons and the classroom environment can help girls excel at STEM courses. Despite recent advances, women remain underrepresented in the workforce in many science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

What questions keep them up at night? Asking these questions will help students navigate their potential major and avoid disappointment in the future. STEM-oriented degrees usually champion transferable skills, too, meaning your student will be set up to succeed as the world of work changes.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Faculty assign homework to expose students to a new concept before they arrive to class, and use class time to ask questions and do more-active learning. There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge.

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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

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s a question more educators and education leaders are asking these days. To tackle that question, we talked to Justin Reich, the host of a new podcast called TeachLab, which is about the art and craft of teaching. Think about these questions: How will curriculum be relevant to young people’s lives?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2019

And improved access to devices and high-speed Wi-Fi means that traditional classrooms lectures need not be limited to the physical classroom space. For STEM instruction, inclusive teaching and relationship-building is often new and potentially dangerous territory. This learning process is arguably the most difficult step.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Our approach with this MOOC is to provide university-style concept lectures with problem-solving strategies from expert AP physics teachers,” said award-winning Rice physicist Jason Hafner, who co-teaches the course with veteran high school AP physics teachers Gigi Nevils and Matt Wilson.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. But we think that if you’re willing to ask questions along the way, if you’re willing to Google and search things and watch videos and educate yourself as you’re going, you’ll pick up the thread of your former teaching. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

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. Conducted on Zoom, students from across schools join to review the current learning module, complete homework and ask questions.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. The struggle was the entire point.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. And despite some “uneven” progress in recent years, STEM fields are just not as diverse as industry leaders would like. question answered afterward. What’s your morning process?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Fred Singer: The question that struck me was, ‘how could it be that kids—born to a generation in which smart phones and laptops are a part of their everyday existence—have to sit in a classroom where someone just talks to them?’ And it’s this service that makes it possible for our system to turn a classroom lecture into a study guide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures at Michigan State University “The question that usually comes up is, ‘I don’t have enough time and I don’t have enough money.’ Lectures, for example, are not holding up well in some studies.) Which is completely 100 percent valid,” he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students are introduced to data-science terms and asked to answer questions based on the map, which Wong calls “knowledge checks.” Our goal is to get these middle school students curious and get them asking questions,” Ressler says. Students built the app using R, an open source programming language.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? When teachers make two recordings, we can already see them asking more open-ended questions in the second one.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2017

As more and more California schools move to experiment with new models, it raises the question: Is college getting in the way of change for K-12 education? California’s (not so unique) problem In California, part of the problem stems from the rigidness of public school admissions requirements. Mendoza knows what she’s talking about.

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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

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. And rather than earning points based on the number of subject-matter questions they answer correctly, they advance based on their performance at other gameplay tasks. Earlier, only a third of students playing a game would re-attempt a question they got wrong.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

To that last question, Sean Arnold, a STEM coach and special educator for the New York City Department of Education, has a suggestion. So it’s not always a lecture. Arnold : This has been the big question from so many people in the city. How are schools adjusting? What resources are they turning to?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. Common Core: A Lesson Plan for STEM (on Bridges). High Tech In The Classroom.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

They were also the first Catholic school in the country accredited as a STEM school by AdvancED. We’re seeing more projects coming out of our classrooms as opposed to just pure lecture. Since those early days of testing iPods, the small, private, Catholic school earned a long-standing designation as an Apple Distinguished School.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We know that it’s important to incorporate small changes in our teaching, such as periodically adding a learning activity in place of a brief lecture. I recommend looking at your current teaching content with a question, “What’s the most important information I want students to learn here?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2020

This week’s podcast is brought to you by “The State of Online STEM Education'' an upcoming national survey of the online STEM landscape created by Every Learner Everywhere and Online Learning Consortium. You can do it synchronously, you can still ask those questions. They’ve been engaged, they’ve participated.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Additionally, the tablet has Bluetooth, so I am able to carry on a lecture while walking around the classroom monitoring students as they take notes or work through problems. Schools will make changes to provide systematic instruction and stem the bleed of learning loss. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed and IDA Certified Dyslexia Specialist.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

The result is playing out in science classrooms across the country as teachers look to address burning questions on hygiene and transmission and provide students with a deeper understanding of the science behind viral infections and the spread of pandemics. New Approaches to New Topics In rural Abingdon, Ill.,

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