Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Emerging school models are supposed to ease the transition to personalized and blended instruction—or at least make it possible. But new ways of teaching like station rotation and fluid-schedule flex models can hit a snag when they run up against the familiar one-teacher-one-classroom setup.

Teachers 160

Teachers Coaching Mental Models Culture 160

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Each has its own champions, teaching practices, and even hashtags; all have the potential to disrupt what we think of as traditional, teacher-centered education by giving students more voice in how they learn. See the resource list below for more suggested readings and teaching tools.) Heather Wolpert-Gawron offers a good role-model.

Skills 167

Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. I was teaching this online class, there were hundreds of students taking it, there were thousands of questions.

Mental Models 186

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 186