Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Use strategies that support integrity, maximize learning, and minimize cheating As I argue in my book AI with Intention , if we want students to use AI tools with integrity, we must teach them how. Teach strategies to use AI appropriately so students can use these tools as more than a mere shortcut. Teach students how to cite sources.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

Most of the teachers I know, including my husband and most of my friends, are not sure whether they will be returning to school on a hybrid schedule or teaching entirely online. Module 1: Teaching Presence–Designing Your Blended/Online Course. Module 2: Teaching Presence–Designing Blended/Online Lessons.

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Online Learning Syllabus Learning Discussions 546

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Currently, there is no shortage of articles offering a high-level look at how and why personalized learning will impact student growth, and conference sessions where teachers are encouraged to change the way they teach, but not given the tools to modify their instructional practices. The Syllabus Gets a Facelift.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Syllabus Lecturing Discussions Science 124

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester! Think-Pair-Share.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. By implementing this hands-on approach, I hoped that the students would not only deepen their own STEAM understanding, but also gain the confidence and inspiration to effectively teach these critical subjects to their future students.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

Reimagining the traditional “syllabus day” to an engaged “preview day” provides an opportunity to set a desired tone for the semester. In the final 20 minutes of class, I tend to shift focus to the syllabus. Since I reimagined “syllabus day” to “preview day,” I have seen some positive outcomes.

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Syllabus Lecturing Discussions Science 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2016

Open Syllabus Project (OSP), a research project organizing data gathered from over a million syllabuses. Joe Karaganis, OSP project director and vice president of The American Assembly at Columbia University, tells EdSurge, "Teaching is a great metric - a field is what the collective chooses to reproduce.". Topping the list is.

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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 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Ever wonder why students dont read the syllabus, despite the time and effort we put into creating it? In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester! Think-Pair-Share.

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Syllabus Students Activities Instructors 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? The first step in making this goal of reaching diverse learners is to reflect on what it means to be inclusive in teaching, and letting that guide our teaching.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 153

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

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

So researchers hoping to engineer better teaching and learning systems are working to unlock a new level of education efficiency by creating AI tools that make it easier for almost anyone to build an AI tutor. “We The teacher teaches one ‘student,’ and the computer teaches all the rest,” Koedinger says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But lessons on social-emotional learning aren’t typically found in a classroom syllabus. Because this is a sequence of investigations that could be run a few days in the class, students may be at different spots throughout the series and self-management is a very important skill to teach during more sustained inquiry experiences.

Science 314

Science Syllabus Students Math 314

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus. To begin, I wrote a thorough prompt, telling it: “You’re a high school English teacher who wants to teach an inquiry-based mythology class with self-directed learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Introduce different modalities and tools: Tailor your teaching techniques. Planners that break down assignments, scaffolded note-taking templates, or even a syllabus can make all the difference in setting clear expectations. By ensuring students know what to expect, you can mitigate their anxieties.

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Reading Syllabus Learning Intelligence 303

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

We’ve already discussed a few ways teachers can use social annotation, but a couple of other interesting methods might involve syllabus searching, where students annotate important course details as a way to help build a sense of community where they are all working towards something at the same time.

Learning 303

Learning Syllabus Universal Design Quizzes 303

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The student and professor both shared the story last week during a session on culturally-responsive teaching in online courses at the 2017 OLC Accelerate Conference, in Orlando. In the end she builds the final syllabus based on their suggestions.

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Culture Teaching Syllabus English 151

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students. The institution was built with online in mind, and focuses on a so-called competency-based teaching method, where students work at their own pace and get credit when they show they know the material. It turns out he was right.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 171

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2019

It’s called the Open Syllabus Project , and this week its leaders released a new version of their tool that analyzes assignment lists from more than six million syllabi. We can now let faculty take credit for the work they’ve produced that has teaching applications,” he added. But version 2.0, million authors assigned in the syllabi.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

Can college students tell the difference between a human teaching assistant and a chatbot? And the answer has profound implications for the future of college teaching. Goel, a professor of computer science and cognitive science, and his team have refined perhaps the first robot teaching assistant, dubbed Jill Watson. “By

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Teaching Syllabus Teaching Assistants Textbooks 140

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. These are three essential things that adjunct faculty (and all faculty) need to know about teaching when getting started.

Teaching 119

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

. – Ellipsis Education , a leader in computer science curriculum for K-12 education, has launched the Curriculum Delivery Platform (CDP) that will provide everything educators need to teach computer science in one place. About Ellipsis Education Ellipsis Education is removing barriers to teaching computer science.

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Curriculum Syllabus Education Science 222

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

We then use these responses to solidify the course syllabus as a living document that prioritizes the voices and narratives absent from their previous experiences in the English department. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”

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Syllabus English Learning Students 191

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

With that in mind, certain strategies, tips, and guidelines have been proven to help instructors begin what can seem like an overwhelming task—teaching a course without ever even needing to physically see her students. Prepare syllabus and assignment due dates carefully and well in advance so that students know what to expect and when.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 162

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The following is the latest installment of the new EdSurge advice column about teaching in higher education. This semester—at the same institution—I will be teaching 2 online graduate courses: a brand new one on Canvas, and an existing one on Blackboard. I, too, teach between Canvas and Blackboard. syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And how are educators supposed to prepare to teach media literacy lessons? Here’s his forecast for how the K-12 industry will continue to evolve and shape teaching and learning. Media Lit: A Make-or-Break Competency for Teachers : As students engage more and more with media, how are they to make sense of what’s reliable—or not?

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Syllabus Science Learning Styles Testing 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

When I started as an adjunct faculty member, I had no teaching experience. I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. These are three essential things that adjunct faculty (and all faculty) need to know about teaching when getting started.

Teaching 111

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 111

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

And he wanted to shake things up in his teaching after noticing how hard it was for him to not reach for his phone while reading—a habit that his students said they also struggled with. When the syllabus says no laptops unless you have a disability, it automatically sort of outs those students,” he said. It’s pervasive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Gamification Syllabus Education History 183

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Reflecting on my first year as a full-time clinical assistant professor, I feel that I have experienced significant growth in my teaching. I am also grateful for the kind and seasoned colleagues who have taken the time to share their favorite, creative, and engaging teaching techniques with me.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 122

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

If you are a classroom educator, you might consider adding a note in your syllabus about the appropriate use of AI tools (example here ). What is ChatGPT? In summary, this platform is “designed to understand and generate human-like text based on the input it receives. See our ChatGPT Prompting Guide for Life Design + Career Education.

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337