eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In 1997, the National Reading Panel issued a report on the findings of dozens of studies looking into the most effective methods of teaching and learning reading. Being Lectured at Doesn’t Work. As many others have, I learned from my own experience teaching in the classroom that lecturing doesn’t work.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. Then students can decide whether they would enjoy listening, reading, or watching information on this topic. They can find a podcast (e.g.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 4th most-read story focuses on blended learning’s role in the wake of the pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

While it might seem like a simple transition to post slides or a recorded lecture online, teachers need to be intentional with course design to effectively mirror what students experienced in the classroom and make the transition as smooth and successful as possible. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

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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., Some students may enjoy reading and engaging with a text, while others may opt for a podcast or recording on a topic.

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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. If we are focused on how to cite online resources or how to generate a hypothesis, this station gives me a chance to actually read and edit my students work.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research. Lecture is a common passive learning practice.

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Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

A couple months ago, I wrote a post entitled “the end of reading,” predicting that in the next couple decades reading would outlive its usefulness and become extinct. Reading has a unique role to play in the world of education. “But, I taught myself to read at the age of two”, you say!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

We intentionally don’t use our valuable time together in class to lecture. In the last two weeks, students have been learning about the digestive system to complement their reading of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and our research into diet, food production, and health. The best gift I can give my students is to teach them how to learn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This research dovetails with the science of reading practices that have been transforming reading instruction to favor a phonics-based approach. Explicit instruction, done well, is not a return to traditional teacher lectures. They needed modeling, practice, and feedback. Explicit instruction is also common sense.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. Have Online Education Systems Replaced Traditional Lectures? With median U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. The emotional impact: Confidence first, grit second Grit and perseverance dont come from lectures or motivational posters.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2023

We couldn’t let too much of this special season pass without bringing you an EdSurge summer reading list. For professors and students, summer break has arrived! Not so much, though, for parents figuring out child care.) It’s more than a little partial, because every single recommendation is a story of ours, published so far in 2023.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM? Or is it by challenging them to actively engage in projects that attempt to solve real-world problems?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

But we couldn’t bear to leave you without some worthwhile reading and listening material during this wintery week, filled with short days and long nights. Read more from Marisa here. Read more from Daniel here. Read more from Emily here. Like educators and students across the U.S., Maybe you will, too.

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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. I'll skip that class.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2018

Whether students are best suited to a traditional lecture, independent reading, or working with peers in a more visual environment, it’s well known that no two learn in the same manner. Unfortunately, the way educators teach is not conducive to the different ways students learn.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. In most flipped classrooms, educators provide materials for students to review before class such as readings from textbooks, worksheets or videos.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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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. Today, that sure seems quaint. And those summaries aren’t just a series of quippy text in bullet points.

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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. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The latest book she co-authored—“The New College Classroom”—is a surprisingly lively read for a how-to book on teaching. Apple’s iPod had only recently come out, and Duke became one of the first to experiment with putting out free lectures online that people could listen to on these digital music players. Active learning wins.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This is an opportunity for them to identify what they have seen and read online. Whitehead doesn’t believe in lecturing students about news literacy. More important than defining the words is how just discussing the definitions can engage students in reflective conversations.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings. Provide electronic files of reading, resources, presentations, and other materials. When they ask what this means, share these suggestions!

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Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. academic journal article or specific industry press).

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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

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2017

As part of the program, the iPad is leveraged to help track how students are progressing with reading and other skills. In the flipped classroom model, students watch lectures at home, take a short quiz on it, and then complete homework at school.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

ELs need ample opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English. Additionally, providing reading materials at different levels and genres with resources like Newsela and CommonLit , and assigning writing tasks that focus on language development, can strengthen their reading and writing skills.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2024

Just as our fixed-menu dining scenario highlights the limitations of a one-size-fits-all approach, traditional classroom settings often mimic this model with lectures or mini-lessons where a teacher presents information in a uniform way to all students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2019

Read more: 6 district management challenges, solved. Do you have community-oriented students who have fantastic ideas to solve specific challenges? Or maybe you’re a teacher who has used a certain beloved book series in core curriculum. And did we mention a cruise? Yes, these are education grants.).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Through lectures, readings, discussions, graphic representations, videos, and hands-on artistic models, teachers have ways to share information. The addition of captions improves access for a variety of students, those with hearing impairments, those learning a new language, and those working to improve reading or spelling skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Chronic absenteeism accounted for 27 percent of the drop in math scores and 45 percent of the decline in reading scores from 2019 to 2022. With lectures recorded and assignments posted online, attending class began to feel optional. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this narrative flipped.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

Check back later this month for the next must-read post!]. In fact, he has seen achievement gains that are three times greater than what he experienced when he used to lecture. What if we could empower our teachers to turn student assessment into a process of learning instead of a focus on measurement?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Read news stories, follow the conversation on social media, and explore some of the many free resources available online. Listening to a lecture, writing notes, filling out worksheets, and taking tests will almost surely not be enough. Learn about AI. Begin by gaining a basic understanding of artificial intelligence.

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