eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Key points: When students are engaged, they come to school How video coaching inspires teacher self-reflection i I’m a first-year teacher. That said, there is hope in the battle against student absenteeism–and it lies with the teachers. It’s a major factor in chronic absenteeism among students. Tragically, it’s the kids.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students. Below are three aspects of our design work that I encourage teachers to consider as they architect learning experiences for their students. #1 1 Get To Know Your Students. How will you get to know your individual students at the beginning of the school year?

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The days when students filed into a classroom, sat at individual desks, and listened to a teacher lecture from behind a podium are a thing of the past. Today, flexible learning environments and classrooms offer more opportunities for students to practice 21st century skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and teamwork.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Last night I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for students in the credential program at UC Riverside. As I was planning my presentation, I knew I wanted to engage the group attending my lecture. Then I asked the students to think about how clear each tenet at the schools where they were doing their student teaching.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today, pandemic-related learning loss is still a very real concern for educators, and student learning is one of education’s biggest priorities as the nation strives to move further away from the pandemic’s impact on education. Education doesn’t have to mean students do all of their important learning in classrooms.

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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. Immersive learning is meant to mimic the real world by providing students with an environment that is as close to reality as possible. What is immersive learning?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2020

Don’t get me wrong–I miss teaching my students in person and I can’t wait until we get back to some semblance of normal. I started off slow, but after a few misstarts and mid-lecture melt downs, using a variety of technology made me more effective and creative. I kept wondering who would want to look at my head for 2 hours.

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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

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. million more over their entire lifetime.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The report offered specific recommendations for effective practices, such as intentional and explicit phonics instruction for all students. In the meantime, many educators—and even entire schools and districts—continued using outdated teaching methods or only engaged in phonics instruction with students in need of remediation.

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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

MARCH 20, 2025

With College Decision Day approaching, students are bombarded with information–rankings, brochures, campus tours, and advice from every direction. Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. The key is knowing what to ask.

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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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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. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

AMERICAN FORK, Utah, July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , the leading student engagement platform that leverages data science to improve student success and bridge the divide between education and careers, today announced the release of a new national report, ” State of The Future U.S.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by 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.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

By integrating Raptors software with Optomas interactive displays, school administrators and students can receive real-time alerts and emergency notifications using CAP protocols to improve the overall safety of the school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

McKinsey reports that studies of current virtual classrooms show that only about 60 percent of low-income students regularly participate, compared to 90 percent of high-income students. The evidence is clear: Virtual classrooms are failing huge populations of students and exacerbating inequalities.

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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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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Ironically, I see my students for about the same total amount of time because we are on an A/B schedule and our class meets every other day. Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time.

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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. Moreover, the pacing of these live presentations is unlikely to accommodate all students’ learning needs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2020

In addition to my work with The Glimpse Group, I am also an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University. At Fordham I teach Exploring Entrepreneurship, a class where students learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur, along with the critical elements of starting a company.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Many educators are overwhelmed by the revolving door of products and lack the resources and guidance to use digital tools to address students’ needs. That’s because educators are still equipped with an antiquated model of teaching that isn’t designed to be responsive to students’ learning styles.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Most of us know what to expect in a face-to-face classroom: Students sitting in rows, facing instructors and listening to lectures, watching videos displayed on screens up front, or, in smaller classes, participating in lively discussion. But are colleges paying attention to what online students want most?

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2020

On the other hand, there’s a chance schools might be able to open back up, in which case they’ll likely need to have students come in shifts in order to maintain social distancing. Fortunately, if bringing students to school part-time is an option, schools don’t have to invent new approaches from scratch.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country.

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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. Synchronous over asynchronous.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Don’t get me wrong–I miss teaching my students in person and I can’t wait until we get back to some semblance of normal. I started off slow, but after a few misstarts and mid-lecture melt downs, using a variety of technology made me more effective and creative. I kept wondering who would want to look at my head for 2 hours.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Key points: Gamification can help engage students when they might otherwise lose motivation Engaged students are 2.5 While the environment that grows children into students–and eventually young adults–has been changing, the education system has proved less dynamic.

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