Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information.

Blended Learning 545

Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching.

Teaching 196

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 196

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.

Teaching 209

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 209

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. This is where machine learning comes in.

Teaching 214

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 214

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

Teaching 175

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Learning 175

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Teaching is full of fads, big ideas that promise to revolutionize instruction. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revising an episode from the summer that looks at a teaching fad from the 1960s and ’70s that has almost vanished from the discussion. Another major factor is the high cost of traditional teaching.

Teaching 190

Teaching Gamification Failure Lecturing 190

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

So what lessons can educators take away from this scholar’s research on teaching and learning? And what advice does Ericsson have for professors shifting to online teaching during COVID-19? Or read a short recap below.

Teaching 202

Teaching Lecturing Study Assignments 202

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

Most teachers don’t have prior experience or professional development in teaching online courses effectively. Two months ago, nobody would have predicted that education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate programs, would either shut down or move online. Online education is fairly synonymous with asynchronous learning.

eLearning 288

eLearning Quizzes Fairness Textbooks 288

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. Lecture is a common passive learning practice. References: Caine, R.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

I believe this lack of time stems from our approach to teaching. 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.

Blended Learning 411

Blended Learning Feedback Lecturing Coaching 411

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

With the rapid spread of COVID-19, educators across the country and around the world have been tasked with shifting to emergency remote teaching—a move from in-person to remote classes made necessary by pressing circumstances. With this rapid push to remote teaching, educators may be jumping into the use of digital technologies too fast.

Teaching 218

Teaching Disabilities Evaluation Internet 218

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. education is building back stronger.”

Blended Learning 292

Blended Learning eLearning Learning Lecturing 292

Scholarly Teacher

MAY 8, 2025

Todd Zakrajsek*, UNC-Chapel Hill; ITLC-Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching and LearningArtificial intelligence (AI) has become synonymous with efficiency and outcomes in higher education. I have read much about how AI can be used for scheduling, drafting email responses, resource management, and checking references.

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Teaching Lecturing Intelligence Students 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. When I taught ninth grade Global History to an integrated co-teaching, or ICT , class last year, I used explicit instruction in ways I had not done before. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Students History Feedback Physical Education 318

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. 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. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome. for all of her students.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Witcher is teaching science at a particularly momentous time, when the fever pitch of the coronavirus news cycle is colliding with a daily cascade of school closures, making students particularly interested in the subject. It’s a complete sea change from when she was in school, learning mainly through passive lectures.

Science 212

Science Teaching Students Evaluation 212

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Eyler certainly spends a lot of time thinking about teaching, since his day job is now the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University. By offering a guided tour through a variety of theories about human learning, he may just cause you to rethink what teaching even is. Eyler: That is the perennial question.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Almost 19 years ago, I started a new teaching position that introduced me to the world of online instruction in higher education. The transition to a digital teaching environment is a great opportunity to be reminded of a simple fact: You don’t have to do this alone.

eLearning 202

eLearning Teaching Quizzes Lecturing 202

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.

Blended Learning 465

Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 465

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.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 325

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.

Lecturing 277

Lecturing Critical Thinking Testing Feedback 277

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

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. Reich is an assistant professor at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab there. Or read the partial transcript, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

Teaching 190

Teaching STEM History Lecturing 190

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

My teaching partner, Marika Neto, and I want our students to create their own learning environment each day to support and enhance the work they are doing in that moment. We intentionally don’t use our valuable time together in class to lecture. The best gift I can give my students is to teach them how to learn.

Learning 353

Learning Lecturing Assignments Participation 353

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Today, because of the changes in education, the use of games to reinforce learning, to teach, and to engage students in their own education has become one of the most effective tools to bridge the gap between school-based and remote learning. It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts.

Game-Based Learning 183

Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Assignments 183

Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Because teaching is first and foremost about communication, these principles apply just as well to teaching, especially to online teaching with videos. Too many online course developers simply read bullet points to their audience when making videos. I have a module about how teaching is like coaching.

Teaching 111

Teaching Lecturing Disabilities Attention 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Because teaching is first and foremost about communication, these principles apply just as well to teaching, especially to online teaching with videos. Too many online course developers simply read bullet points to their audience when making videos. I have a module about how teaching is like coaching.

Teaching 111

Teaching Lecturing Disabilities Attention 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Replace and/or supplement outdated readings. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.).

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Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

They are fun for students, keep them engaged, and teach the foundational pieces of a lesson. The article’s about 1000 words and well worth the read: Simulations as a Teaching Strategy – Everything You Need to Know. But what are the key considerations when leveraging simulation as a viable teaching strategy?

Teaching 174

Teaching Gamification Critical Thinking Participation 174

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall. Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention.

Lecturing 215

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

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. From a teaching, learning standpoint, that's pretty concerning to me,” he says. Today, that sure seems quaint.

Study 214

Study Lecturing Instructors Students 214

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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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 211

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. How can schools and districts prepare students for college and careers in STEM?

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STEM Interdisciplinary Textbooks Lecturing 260

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In her edWebinar “ Fight Fake News: Media Literacy for Students ,” Tiffany Whitehead, school librarian for the Episcopal School of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says that’s exactly what we need to teach students. This is an opportunity for them to identify what they have seen and read online.

Lecturing 272

Lecturing Evaluation Internet Discussions 272

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This five step to-do list can help educators engage in artificial intelligence and begin using it to positively impact both teaching and learning. Read news stories, follow the conversation on social media, and explore some of the many free resources available online. How can you leverage AI to improve teaching and learning?

Intelligence 343

Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 343

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 297

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. He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. They could always find and read the content on their own.

Instructors 98

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

They predicted that the event, whose blue and red flier read “There’s an election in two weeks? When the audience of around 30 students entered the large lecture classroom in Moore Hall, where the college houses its Center for Inclusive Excellence, Delano greeted them with a slide show explaining how the afternoon would go.

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Teaching Science Discussions Skills 204