TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video teaching strategies have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

These stories of resilience and triumph allowed me to see my own humanity as a Black person, something I later realized I desperately needed. I needed to learn about my people in order for me to see my own humanity, and for the students I’ve taught over the past 13 years, I know this to be true. I will never forget that moment.

History 106

History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 106

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

Humanities 92

Humanities Psychology Library Education 92

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

” These might be the wrong questions, a product of our sentimentality as a culture and human insecurity in general. Or we think about ‘mobile devices’ today primarily in contrast to the previous tradition of ‘non-mobile technology.’ Move farther and ask, ‘What human need did we originally design schools to solve?’

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Humanities Tradition Cultures Teaching 231

ED Surge

JULY 13, 2022

Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.” Unless you get them to get back into their own bodies, I think you lose a really important teaching moment.”

Teaching 119

Teaching EdTech Humanities Tradition 119

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. How did that go?

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Research Teaching Pedagogy Elementary School 143

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

The key is to not only rely on this teaching technique as it mainly focuses on providing information and modeling as opposed to active learning. Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Find ways to include novelty.

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Psychology Pedagogy Research Tradition 545

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Credit: Courtesy of the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction. The coronavirus school closures have triggered a mass experiment in using educational technology, from video conferencing to automated feedback. Nice gig.).

Teaching 114

Teaching Classroom Management Humanities Educational Technology 114

TeachThought

APRIL 5, 2024

Technology Tools for Interactive Learning contributed by Edelyn Bontuyan What makes traditional learning click? You conduct Q&A sessions, set up discussions, conduct practicals, lead peer teaching sessions, and more. How do you replicate these in-person connections when you are required to teach remotely? In-person learning.

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Interactive Learning Tradition Humanities Teaching 270

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. Subscribe today!

Humanities 111

Humanities K-12 Tradition Private School 111

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Below I will address six specific areas that can help to create an empathetic teaching and learning culture. Teaching both face-to-face and remote learners at the time is not easy, but I recently developed a pedagogical framework using a station rotation model that can help. Some set aside a half-day.

Pedagogy 542

Pedagogy Cultures Tradition Leadership 542

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The future will leave room for human teachers.

Humanities 99

Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 99

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

There’s a growing market for the convenience, accurate feedback and interaction that voice-based AI reading tools provide, due to the unprecedented fall in NAEP reading scores across the country coupled with mounting concerns about modern strategies for teaching literacy. Diagnosing dyslexia early, for instance.

Teaching 115

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 115

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. This is critically important to learning. Sensitivity is required.

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Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 129

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The tutor, which Kestin calls “PS2 Pal,” after the Physical Sciences 2 class he teaches, was told to only give away one step at a time and not to divulge the full solution in a single message. Kestin doesn’t deliver traditional lectures. Kestin sought to reproduce aspects of this teaching style with the AI tutor.

Tutoring 115

Tutoring Humanities Tradition Critical Thinking 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I That doesn’t motivate action or change.”

Teaching 79

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 79

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system.

Pedagogy 211

Pedagogy Humanities Social Justice Anthropology 211

TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? The Purpose of Questions Thought of roughly as a kind of spectrum, four purposes of questions might stand out, from more “traditional” to more “progressive.”

Critical Thinking 318

Critical Thinking Artifacts Tradition Cultures 318

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Teaching aides are at least as effective in tutoring as licensed teachers, and far more effective than volunteer tutors, research shows Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Teaching assistants may sometimes feel like the Rodney Dangerfields of the classroom. But it was based on very few studies.

Tutoring 92

Tutoring Humanities Elementary School Middle School 92

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. With AI, we’re teaching them to surf in an ever-changing ocean.

Advocacy 102

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 102

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, EdSurge webinar host Matthew Joseph discussed with education experts the need for assessments to measure what truly matters and power human progress. We must consider not just the learner but all human actors in the system and the decisions they need to make to support that learner’s journey.

Education 65

Education Professional Development Humanities Psychology 65

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

They also aim to open traditional students’ eyes to the stigmas and systematic barriers to employment former prisoners like Omar face. It’s part of a trend of colleges teaching entrepreneurship to inmates and ex-inmates. It’s, like, ‘Oh my goodness, they’re actually human beings,’ ” she said.

Teaching 142

Teaching Humanities Government Tradition 142

Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This map shows the location of archaeological sites and their associated occupational phases in the Banda Traditional Area, Bono Region, Ghana.

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Oral History Archaeology Heritage History 107

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard. Earning a Ph.D.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Pedagogy Archaeology Social Justice 98

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection.

Pedagogy 128

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

We teach concepts in algebra and calculus that will establish a solid base of knowledge should a student decide to pursue higher levels of mathematics in college or graduate school. There is no better way to teach students to think than to encourage them to wrestle with the sort of complex ideas that we find in time-tested literature.

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High School Tradition Critical Thinking History 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

At least a teacher has the opportunity to vet what AI spits out before giving or teaching it to students. The Berkeley researchers took advantage of the fact that ChatGPT, like humans, is erratic. The big question, of course, is whether these ChatGPT’s solutions help students learn math better than traditional teaching.

Research 125

Research Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 125

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

While watching videos can be passive, activities that effectively use video teaching strategies engage students in active learning. By leveraging video teaching strategies, educators can actively engage students, using videos as a powerful learning tool. A static textbook or lecture is often insufficient to capture their attention.

K-12 64

K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 64

ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But not everyone thinks this is a good idea, since the tech is prone to “hallucinations,” where chatbots make up facts, and there’s the bigger issue of whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring. That is exciting, but it also has a lot of things to keep in consideration.

Tutoring 109

Tutoring Humanities K-12 EdTech 109

Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

Museum 52

Museum Human Rights Tradition History 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

It’s not until the second-period bell rings, however, that you begin to see how different this is from a traditional psychology course. Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. Weekly Update.

Teaching 105

Teaching Education Psychology High School 105

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Teaching with Simulations Why should you consider teaching with simulations? Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Artifacts Historic Sites Geography 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

Tradition 124

Tradition Teaching Economics Research 124

Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds. How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations?

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Anthropology Archiving Tradition History 124

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While I’m not proud to admit it, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought teaching remotely would be a dream come true. As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and online while still preserving the magic of human interaction.

EdTech 105

EdTech Humanities Tradition Teaching 105

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Highlights of Our Conversation In our conversation, Avery highlights two things that AI can do very quickly that are beyond our capacity as humans. AI can analyze unlimited amounts of student writing or data and generate rapid responses consistently, something that would be exhausting, if not impossible, for any human.

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Humanities Tradition Teaching Education 103