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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

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It is a daily cerebral adventure, fully as engaging as Star Wars , as challenging as The Matrix , and as gratifying as The Life of Pi. We can’t teach students everything they’ll ever need but what we can inspire them to be lifelong learners, to know how to figure something out when it slaps them in the face.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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The commissioner’s own experiences have made him acutely aware of the achievement gap in education, as well as the reality that students in this country are not all given the same opportunities to succeed, Robles-Rivas said. It’s definitely a wonderful opportunity for Latino youth to see him as a role model.” It’s encouragement.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel and his team used the 40,000 some odd questions that students had asked in previous versions of the course to build out Jill’s knowledge-base.

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