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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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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. 2001, University of Vermont) is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar and Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

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For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. This means readings from various fields, expert guest talks, or tasks that ask students to blend information from many sources. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182). link] Yang, B.-H.,

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. This means readings from various fields, expert guest talks, or tasks that ask students to blend information from many sources. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182). link] Yang, B.-H.,

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How to Make Online Learning More Engaging and Effective for Students

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Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. For example, how would they use a science concept to solve a problem at home? Peer Review and Group Projects: Online learning isn’t only about solo work. Or how might a math formula apply to planning a trip or building something?

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4 simple ways to put the science of reading into practice

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Many students are still reading below the level appropriate for their grade– roughly one-third of fourth graders in the United States read at or below what’s considered the basic level. And unfortunately, even before the pandemic, reading achievement has been low over the past several decades.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master.

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Science achievement gaps begin as early as kindergarten

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Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Hillemeier (Pennsylvania State University), and Steve Maczuga (Pennsylvania State University) conducted the research.