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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

Edsurge

At poetry readings in particular, I lean into the words that a poet shares before or after reading each poem. For example, you can embed prompts, quizzes, asynchronous discussions and range of other dynamic activities right in the middle of videos using tools like PlayPosit, Edpuzzle and Nearpod.

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. 1 That moment of reading was transformative. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. But when I graduated, I felt lost.

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