Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. However, if teachers are going to say the same thing the same way for all students, I encourage them to make a video. Video puts the student in control of the pace at which they consume and process new information.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 4, 2016

Whenever I train teachers on the Flipped Classroom Model, I’m always asked the same questions. “What do you do if your students do not complete the homework?” ” or “What do you do if students do not have access to the internet and/or devices at home?”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. What students–especially struggling students–also need is teacher-directed explicit instruction. But learning does not have to be student-driven in order for it to be student-centered.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apps can be a valuable resource for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to engage students with digital resources. While they’re a fun resource, teachers don’t always have time to search through apps and ensure they’re appropriate for students; this means everyone misses out on what could be a memorable learning activity.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before enrolling, students have to consider their own skills, their career prospects, and their ability to thrive within the department at large. As a parent, guidance counselor, or teacher, you can help students navigate college majors by doing a little research of your own. What questions keep them up at night?

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. Similarly, a teacher must get to know their students. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work.

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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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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. Shiksha Copilot is Microsoft’s take on an AI-powered lesson plan creator and is geared to assist teachers and students located within India.

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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 I want my students to deal with their lives,” he says. “I In a new and unfamiliar environment, we cannot hold faculty and students to expectations constructed in and for a different instructional experience.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After five years, three grade levels, hundreds of students, and a lot of trial and error, here are 10 takeaways from my experiences flipping my classroom. 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.

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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. The value of this inversion is that students can pace their progress through a video (pausing, rewinding, rewatching). Adding to the time students already spend staring at a screen. The Benefits of Using Video.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2017

Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. If teachers spend the majority of their class lecturing or transferring information, there isn’t time for consistent, real-time feedback.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that makes sense–as systemic as some issues facing our education system are, every school, class, and student is unique. Students today are more distracted and disengaged than ever, all while they’re spending an average of 95 minutes every single day on TikTok alone. There’s an entire school of thought on this.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

BILLUND, Denmark — To celebrate the second annual World Play Day, LEGO® Education is inspiring teachers to experience purposeful play firsthand by giving students and teachers Permission to Play. On top of that, almost 80% of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom. Play is not just for the playground.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

AuraNexus has partnered with the Marymount School of New York to debut its EdTech interactive video platform providing students and teachers with personalized learning at scale. Students now have the ability to “talk” to their teachers 24/7. The goal here is to empower students to be curious and learn without limitations.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

But engineering and the engineering design process, when incorporated into classrooms correctly, can increase student engagement and subject matter understanding. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

for all of her students. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. And a couple of students are back home in China, where it’s midnight. When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Students these days are distracted. That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. It’s a surprisingly optimistic take on the topic—it goes out of its way not to blame students or urge blanket tech bans.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. If, like me, you work with younger students, you might have even seen one or two get up and start wandering the classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Students in biology are going to be using it in one way, chemistry students are going to be using it in another.

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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. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

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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 But then there were also the students who just never responded.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Let’s explore how these strategies promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding among students, enhancing academic success. Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding.

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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 8, 2021

10 teachers hand-picked as part of Labster’s Teacher STEM Excellence Awards supporting the changemakers across the globe The Labster awards recognizes global changemakers in the education sector Winners have developed student-centered learning programs and applied creativity and innovation to teaching during a difficult year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

But in Witcher’s version, students lose their clothespin by touching their face, which health experts have strongly advised against as a way to slow transmission. It’s a complete sea change from when she was in school, learning mainly through passive lectures. New Approaches to New Topics In rural Abingdon, Ill.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

With so many classes online during the pandemic—many of them taught by professors still struggling to figure out how to teach in the format—students are increasingly turning to homework-help websites. This problem with students turning more to the web to just copy down answers isn’t only at Purdue.

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