ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2022

Finding community is a vulnerable, difficult experience—especially as a student. It requires not only feeling comfortable with your peers, but also trusting them enough to be able to ask questions and learn without fear of judgment. panicking together with fellow students the night before an exam, we forged lasting bonds.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. So, that’s what I did.

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STEM Sport

AUGUST 2, 2023

Project-based learning is a teaching method that utilizes hands-on learning experiences to help students further develop their skills in various subjects. Regardless of grade level, it can be difficult to keep students engaged throughout project-based lessons.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? This technology will transform education by personalizing learning and meeting various student demands.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. It recognizes the importance of enjoyment, curiosity and exploration in facilitating effective learning experiences.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

It helped us stay active, and we learned how to compete and be aggressive in order to win. At that point in my life, I knew I wanted to teach this style of dance to young people; with the right tools and experience, I knew I could help students understand and learn about their identity and culture the same way I did through Folklorico.

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Defined Learning

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Whether we dive in and try new ideas, bring in new digital tools, or shift to more of a facilitator role, it will promote more student-driven, meaningful learning. With more options available, we will foster student agency , boost engagement and increase student motivation in learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord.

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Defined Learning

MARCH 29, 2024

In today's digital age, student engagement is more of a challenge than ever before. Elizabeth Kreutzer, middle school s cience teacher and science department chair at Loch Raven Technical Academy in Baltimore City Public Schools , discusses her experience incorporating project-based learning into her classroom.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the dynamic landscape of education, truly personalized learning has been nearly impossible to achieve. Classroom teachers, constrained by limited resources and standardized curricula, often struggle to cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. Thanks to the emergence of AI, this is finally possible.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Educators require support in harnessing technology for diverse student needs, emphasizing digital competencies and 21st-century skills.

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STEM Education Works

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Student engagement has been a topic of discussion for decades. As a former teacher, I hate to admit that even when I was in school I wasn’t engaged nearly as much as I should’ve been. As a student, I felt that my engagement wasn’t important to my grades, and instead, test scores were what mattered. .

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“I've always thought games were good models for everything—how to learn, but also how to be,” says Arana Shapiro. Now the Managing Director and Chief Learning Officer at Games for Change , Shapiro stands at the vanguard of a movement to both normalize and prioritize game-based instruction in schools. G4C Student Resources.

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Defined Learning

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This article explores the direct connection between gratitude and improved learning outcomes. Rowell delves into the developmental stages of gratitude in students, highlighting its significant benefits, and explores how integrating gratitude into education enhances student engagement, motivation, and overall learning experiences.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Oregon Trail has an extraordinary origin story , illuminating many of the crucial elements that make games engaging and powerful for learning. Given its exceptional start within a favorable early ecosystem, one might expect hundreds—even thousands—of compelling games for learning on the market today.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

Burns is one of the millions of college students forced to adapt to remote learning at a pivotal time in her education. As thousands of students like her emerge from unprecedented turbulence, they and college leaders must ask, What should class look like now? And how should we keep students engaged and best support them?

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2022

Some instructors are so taken by active learning working so effectively that they expect to continue offering courses online, even when the pandemic restrictions completely lift and things are fully back in person. Learning design is a discipline,” she says.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

KEY POINTS Keep at-home assignments engaging. Test students on what they have learned. A flipped learning environment is exactly what it sounds like. In this sense, flipped classroom learning turns classwork into homework and homework into classwork. Create relevant hands-on activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2024

Despite efforts to improve attendance, challenges persist, prompting renewed focus on student engagement and support strategies. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Full Story: K-12 Dive (3/27) –image credit Deposit Photos Copyright ©2024 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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Middle Web

AUGUST 29, 2023

What teachers do the first weeks of school has a dramatic effect on student engagement and achievement the rest of the year. Building a classroom culture of learning and questioning – co-created with students – paves the road to success. The post Co-Create a Learning Culture with Students first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The story of Oregon Trail offers many relevant lessons for those wanting to harness the power of video games for learning. While Rawitsch and his collaborators never saw any money from this success, they created an enduring franchise and helped launch the sector of game-based learning. More on this important blindspot below.

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Defined Learning

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Project-based learning is effective in enhancing student engagement and achievement while making the classroom experience more relevant, authentic, and fun. Learn how principals and teachers can expand and adapt high-quality project-based curricula to meet their needs and those of their students.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

Ensuring that students remain focused and engaged during lessons can be a challenge in any STEM classroom. Active learning is one approach that is designed to address this problem. Dr. Jake Roark The post Implementing Active Learning in STEM Teaching appeared first on STEM Education Works.

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National Institute for STEM Education

MAY 5, 2020

Let’s face it, maintaining student engagement can be tough, even when you are with your students in the same physical space. That said, there are things you can do to increase students’ active participation in online learning sessions and activities.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Studies show up to a 75 percent improvement in retention with experiential learning scenarios. The investigators: a group of students at Independence High School in Frisco, Texas. Image Credit: James Flaskamp It has long been argued that learning through experience is the most effective way to master a subject. There he is!”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Online learning has become not only a common alternative to physical classes, but a well-regarded change maker in the education ecosystem. Not only does it eliminate the noise of who’s wearing what, disruptive students, and classes cancelled due to snow days, it is becoming the surest and easiest way to treat all students equally.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. We must commit to creating meaningful, purposeful professional learning experiences for our educators. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team. Prioritize student voice.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 27, 2021

While there clearly are still lessons yet to be learned from the ongoing pandemic, the ebb and flow of emergency remote instruction versus the return to in-person instruction has already brought one of higher ed’s simmering issues to a rolling boil: What are we going to do with online learning?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

What makes this program stand out from the crowd is the fun and engaging way it builds student’s assessment proficiency. As most of us know, when students are engaged, their capacity for learning is greatly increased. Education Galaxy’s programs are unique because they are built with student engagement in mind.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Jenny Nash, explains, "playful learning brings fun and enjoyment to learning for students, but it’s also about the educational standards. As educators, we're always thinking about the standards we need to cover, the knowledge and skills we want students to have and how we can provide a playful way to do that."

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Defined Learning

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Both experiences can result in meaningful learning—but they aren’t created equal. The terms “performance tasks” and “projects,” in the context of project-based learning (PBL), are familiar to today’s educators. In essence, a performance task asks students to apply their learning in some fashion. Source: Defined Learning).

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Defined Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Project-based learning impacts social studies education by enhancing student engagement, deeper learning, literacy, development of future-ready skills, and more.

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STEM Sport

APRIL 30, 2024

When implementing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) lessons with students, it is important to create lesson plans that utilize effective learning models to ensure student engagement, comprehension, and retention. What Is Multimodal Learning?

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CoderZ

APRIL 13, 2023

On the flipside, “learning” and “school” aren’t always considered fun. And yet, games involve many of the same components as learning like, repetition, trial & error, feedback, etc. How Do “Play” and “Games” Contribute to Learning? There is continuous learning that continues as we play a game.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 29, 2024

Place-based learning is an innovative approach that engages students in their community. By integrating their physical local environment, culture, and landscaping, students learn through participation in service projects to help them gain a better understanding of their place in the world.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

And if we are serious about student well-being, we must change the systems they learn in. While it’s likely that homework completion signals student engagement, which in turn leads to academic achievement, there’s little evidence to suggest that homework itself improves engagement in learning.

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