Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area. 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? Cold-calling Use cold-calling tools during the lecture.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. Meanwhile, 80 percent of teachers across the nation are reporting critically low student engagement, signifying a lack of connection with the material, the methodology, or both.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. One of the things we do as researchers is we test ideas,” says Stull. “We We don’t just assume, or say, ‘that’s cool let’s use it.’”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible. What new technology is out there and being tested in the classroom? Both teachers and students who have health issues can safely attend class.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Engagement and experimentation Technology demonstrably helps keep students engaged in their lessons and facilitate better learning in a digital world. One study found that active learning significantly increases student performance in the classroom: Students were 1.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Active learning strategies examples encompass various techniques that engage students in the learning process, promoting deeper understanding and retention of material. Here are some examples: Practice Retrieval : Self-testing or using flashcards to actively recall information from memory strengthens memory recall and retention.

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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

MAY 17, 2023

Administrators can also easily review and analyze teacher and student performance through over 40 metrics, including attendance, classroom activity, and test and homework data.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. This is not a lecture. Students do not want to be sermonized or given a one-hour soliloquy that doesnt give them the opportunity to speak. References: Meyer, K. doi:10.1002/aehe.20018

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning. This is where machine learning comes in.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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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. While those aren’t tested on standardized tests, it’s a necessary and important piece of what students and learners need when they get out into the workforce.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Plus, students can use them to submit work digitally.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2018

The days of standing in front of the classroom and “lecturing” are long gone. By using video, teachers can keep students engaged in new and innovative ways. Including video in classroom instruction offers numerous benefits for both educators and students. And captions, for example, enable deaf students to read the video.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

How does your platform boost interactivity and student engagement, specifically? This technology captures whatever is going on in the classroom and turns it into easily searchable and referenceable video content that students can access anywhere, anytime, on all their devices. Source: Echo360. How are you measuring success?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2019

Let students choose their favorite topics to study and then seek out the best hands-on STEM curriculum and activities that meet the students’ interests. That’s how Indiana GEAR UP officials are ensuring high student engagement within their program, according to Executive Director Dr. Virginia Bolshakova. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

I recommend making use of a timer, having an established end in mind for each class session, erring on the side of student engagement versus “covering the material,” having plans for extending the learning if activities are shorter than planned and leaving room for metacognition, meaning, leave time to talk about the learning process.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Today, as an associate teaching professor of economics at Penn State in University Park, Pennsylvania, Wooten is on the flip side of the camera; he creates his own short educational videos to enhance traditional reading materials and lectures. Today’s students generally want deeper or more nuanced information from their professors,” he says.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 20, 2025

Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. This is not a lecture. Students do not want to be sermonized or given a one-hour soliloquy that doesnt give them the opportunity to speak. References: Meyer, K. doi:10.1002/aehe.20018

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Student Engagement Instructors Students Feedback 66

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The student knew the material, but she just wasn’t a good test-taker. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Personalized Learning: AI allows educational content and instruction to be tailored to individual students’ abilities, needs and interests. This promotes better student engagement and accelerated learning. This helps students move through material at their own pace, whether faster or slower.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Teachers should provide options for how students experience the content. After all, not everyone learns by listening to a lecture; some may learn better through a video or a podcast, while others prefer interactive technology or simulations. Teachers can offer different ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

By increasing the use of real-life relevance in the classroom content, students further develop lifelong skills and improve their internal self-image through successful learning experiences. PowerPoint Live also provided dynamic translations as the teacher lectured.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Not an ideal conversation right after sessions on mindfulness, but the husband-and-wife researcher duo did take away two key lessons from the students’ candor. First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article will focus on the latter and highlight some field-tested approaches and assessments for maximizing instructional effectiveness to improve student achievement. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. .”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

In 2011, Cat Campos was a senior at Immaculata-La Salle High School , struggling to see how the iPod touch devices they were testing in her AP Literature class could support learning. 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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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Anonymous student. Lack of Agency over Learning: "I felt that you didn't teach us anything in class.with so many students telling you we learn better with lectures, I feel you are ignoring our feedback and just taking the easier path."

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Similarly, when motivation levels are high, students engage more deeply in the associated learning task. Ask any educator about the joys of teaching a highly intrinsically motivated student! When students ask, “but how does this relate to the real world?” I like to start a series of lectures with a real-world scenario.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. In many cases, the use of digital tools, platforms, and applications has helped to boost student engagement, grow pass rates, and increase retention.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I passed the fraction test back to my pre-algebra class and an awkward silence filled the room. The 20 students in my class received a wide range of grades, causing a mixture of satisfaction and dismay. The rest were lost and stuffed the tests into their binders immediately after glancing at their grade.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive.

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STEM Laboratory Peer Review Schools 143

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

As typing becomes the primary method by which students engage with digital curricula, record lecture notes, complete homework assignments and even take standardized tests, the importance of learning to do this well cannot be overstated.

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Teaching Gamification Achievement Writing 167

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This article will focus on the latter and highlight some field-tested approaches and assessments for maximizing instructional effectiveness to improve student achievement. For example, pause for one or two of the above activities after lecturing for eight to 10 minutes. .”

Motivation 111

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2023

Building up the courage to ask for more, I sent a long-winded, evidence-based email to my administrators asking them to test it out in my science classroom, taking the opportunity to shake up our physical space – and perhaps emit an air of fancifulness.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments. They are seeing increases in average test scores, decreases in students earning less than a C, and numerous other benefits. Related Posts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instructors can use this data to assess what additional supports students may need on their way to fully understanding each lesson. By adopting the adaptive tool, we were able to completely integrate the lab and lecture during the class meeting times. Established in 1963, North Carolina’s. Tell me how the tool works.

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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. As schools continue adjusting to the return to classrooms, educators are searching for ways to reignite student engagement and collaboration.

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