eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Putting ChatGPT on trial I first became aware of ChatGPT last February when I began reading mind-blowing comments of several progressive educators. So the students began, first reading The Crucible , relying only on their human intelligence. Now create a syllabus, complete with readings.” What would be the implications?

English 337

English Syllabus Intelligence Assignments 337

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Social annotation as an e-learning vehicle within UDL Social annotation tools can improve reading comprehension and student interaction. Teachers can use them to allow students to make annotations that are shared with their peers, making them consider reading as a social element instead of something that is maybe individual and dull.

Learning 306

Learning Universal Design Syllabus Quizzes 306

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

Syllabus Inclusions Syllabus inclusionspromise and provide proper guidance throughout the semester with individual teams outside of class. Once decided, be sure to update your syllabus with the revised details of whats expected, how to do it, and what graded parts will be needed.

Student Engagement 81

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 81

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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Reading Teaching Lecturing Syllabus 161

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

Recently, I found myself in Barnes and Noble, captivated by a "Read with Pride" display in the Young Adult section. In those days, my reading experiences at school stalled my understanding of my emerging queer identity and limited my knowledge of others that might have shared my experiences. Who benefits from the stories?

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Syllabus English Learning Students 187

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Prepare syllabus and assignment due dates carefully and well in advance so that students know what to expect and when. Instead of just reading and writing weekly assignments from a book, students read and write in service of completing a larger project. Establish good course practices.

Education 279

Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Here are popular online resources to teach about using games in education ( click here for updates to the list ): Battleship on Google Sheets Breakouts by BreakoutEdu.com — a bit like Webquests but more comprehensive Breakout Room Template Game Show Templates –Frazzle, Jeopardy, Family Feud, Price is Right, more Gamified Syllabus –a template to create (..)

Gamification 184

Gamification Syllabus Education History 184

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. one question they had for others who read the same chapter. As I read Smith’s words, I imagined the power of discussions taking place in the margins of books across generations. When reading on the internet, you can select text and annotate it.

Instructors 165

Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “We We can solve a lot of problems as educators if we can just get people to read the syllabus upfront.”.

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Syllabus Teachers Course Outline English 167

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Listen to the conversation below, or read a partial transcript, lightly edited for clarity. Del Tufo: Reading is probably the most prevalent one that I see. Students who struggle because they have reading disabilities or struggle to read on a computer screen because of blurred vision.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Disabilities Universal Design Syllabus 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. MagicSchool.ai, on the other hand, is a more expansive tool, and lesson planning is just one of the features it offers teachers.

Quizzes 297

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 297

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. The goal was to highlight key points from the readings and also give a sense of her personality as a teacher. “I These portfolios bring those internal workings out in ways that a syllabus or course evaluations could never capture,” she says.

Teaching Portfolio 167

Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Encourage students to do annotations — to read with pen or pencil or highlighter. But the problem is when we tested this,” he adds, “it helped those students, but it got to the point where other students said, ‘I don’t have to read anything ever again,’ because the tool could also summarize and turn any text into a series of bullet points.”

Lecturing 215

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. At this point, I still have not reviewed the syllabus with them and instead begin a community building activity.

Student Engagement 116

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop. For example, from 9 a.m.

Distance Learning 210

Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 210

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Students now expect the use of this tool by their professors for more than simply providing lecture slides or links to readings. consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement.

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Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 122

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Another session examines the business of edtech, first by asking the class to read a seminal paper authored in 2007 (but still relevant to this day) about the industry.

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Syllabus Education Failure Knowledge 153

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

But this year, with the arrival of the World Cup, I came prepared, and my students knew it when they saw our sports journalism unit built into the syllabus on the first day. All too often, the books on these reading centered traumatizing and marginalizing protagonists. Are these days blocked off for the World Cup?!” they exclaimed.

English 194

English Culture Syllabus Writing 194

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. It wasnt an effective system. Poor planning left my students and me burnt out at the end of most terms.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

I’ve engaged in morning and afternoon rituals for a long time: 30 minutes in the morning for reading, planning the day, and coffee; and 30 minutes in the afternoon for zeroing out inboxes and journaling, before transitioning to family time. But have we made a similar commitment to this kind of communication with ourselves?

Education 178

Education Syllabus Instructors Intelligence 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Advisors can help students establish healthy work habits by sending helpful advice for meeting deadlines before classes begin such as: Plan ahead: Get a “lay of the land” of the course by reading the syllabus. They can check announcements during work breaks or read discussion posts while waiting for a flight at the airport.

Online Learning 178

Online Learning Instructors Coaching Syllabus 178

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Did teachers know that students were reading them? On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. I suppose the answer is somewhere in the messy middle: some students missed out on the joys of reading original work, and others used them to review what they read.

Syllabus 124

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So I tell students, ’Don't read chapter 9, follow this link and read this part that I’ve written, and then follow this link to this quiz that I wrote and then go watch this video at Colorado State University,’” said Feldstein.

Textbooks 170

Textbooks Syllabus Instructors Peer Review 170

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play! Franklin, D.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Exhibit 2: Thompson’s Barbie themed class syllabus (Spring 2024). Let Them Play! Franklin, D.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. At this point, I still have not reviewed the syllabus with them and instead begin a community building activity.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 15, 2023

What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features? Clear labels and categories make navigation easy, and having everything accessible, especially the syllabus, lecture materials, and study guides, was a recurring preference. 

Syllabus 126

Syllabus Instructors Peer Review Lecturing 126

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Did teachers know that students were reading them? On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. I suppose the answer is somewhere in the messy middle: some students missed out on the joys of reading original work, and others used them to review what they read.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Maybe even a rewarding one (yes, you read that right). For example, with Quizlet, you can create digital flashcards and practice tests tailored to your syllabus. Here are some of the best digital study techniques that can make your study sessions more effective and help you ace all your exams.

Exams 158

Exams Study Syllabus Essay 158

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Encourage student participation.

Teaching 119

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. It wasnt an effective system. Poor planning left my students and me burnt out at the end of most terms.

Syllabus 100

Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 100

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus. Now, think about your students.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Instead of thinking about the LMS as simply a repository for course essentials (syllabus, contact information, etc.), Students now expect the use of this tool by their professors for more than simply providing lecture slides or links to readings. consider how it might be used as a tool for enhancing student learning and engagement.

Syllabus 105

Syllabus Instructors Assignments Faculty Development 105

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

I have created what I’m calling my “prep syllabus” and hope to set a solid foundation for myself. I would love to get your feedback on what should be in my "prep syllabus” and how to make that transition. I came into my doctoral program thinking I was going to read every word that was assigned (I didn’t). Thanks so much!

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Syllabus Writing Schools Research Methods 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This includes the provision of electronic access to the course syllabus, reading and viewing materials, assessments, the course calendar, grades, course evaluations, discussion boards, and other important course materials. Course management technology organizes and presents course structure and materials on an electronic platform.

Technology 154

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 154

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In an age where college students can Skype, email and Snapchat with their families faster than it takes to read this sentence, it’s easy for parents to stay involved in the lives of their children who’ve flown the coop.

Syllabus 160

Syllabus Exams Instructors Study 160