GovTech

JUNE 10, 2025

When the new Compton High School opens this fall, high-tech classrooms will function much like college lecture halls, with students reading, taking tests, completing work and even many projects online.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. The strategies are summarized below.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

College of the Canyons, like many institutions, paid extra to integrate the plagiarism checker into its online learning management system, where faculty members had begun to post assignments and reading materials and students were expected to submit their papers. I wouldn’t have gone back to [Turnitin].”

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Scholarly Teacher

MAY 8, 2025

I have read much about how AI can be used for scheduling, drafting email responses, resource management, and checking references. AI is also often used to create lecture outlines, simulations, problem-solving activities, formative assessment analyses, and content mapping.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects. That doesn’t mean you need to skip important concepts or simplify complex topics, but it does mean you can make your instruction more applicable to their lives.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. Read More: These LA community college students are getting paid to go to school. One of her few in-person classes was a math course, but it was held in a large lecture hall and required students to wear masks. “I Her mom kept her grounded.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Upon finishing a public lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system, James was accosted by a "little old lady." The following version, which is most certainly a fabrication, is from J.R. Ross who associates it with the psychologist and philosopher William James.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the coming year, that broad trend will continue, with a shift to looking beyond knowledge building as schools, districts, and states begin improving capacity and creating systems aligned to the science of reading. No curriculum, however, is the science of reading, and I believe schools and districts are beginning to understand this.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. My goal in flying down to Texas State was to find out, what do college classes look and feel like now—especially in large lectures like this one?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. It’s designed for learners who are interested in hands-on experiences, problem-solving, and discovery over non-traditional methods like reading textbooks and listening to lectures from a professor.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

lectures or mini-lessons), I would suggest recording a video and allowing students to self-pace through that video. Teachers can invite students to participate in a small group discussion about a chapter they read in a text or the textbook, debrief about a flipped video lesson, or unpack complex issues or topics related to your subject area.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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 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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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 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

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

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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