Reaction videos are a modern form of annotating a text, and they teach students the same critical thinking and connection skills.

The classic mode of lecturing is pretty passive, with the teacher on the stage and delivering content and the students sitting and, hopefully, listening,” Jackson says. His approach, on the other hand ...

Have you ever given a lecture to a group of adult learners? If so, you may have noticed their eyes losing focus and phones appearing as you moved through your session. This is because the traditional ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (Lovett et ...

When it comes to classroom edtech use, digital tools have a drastically different impact when they are used actively instead of passively–a critical difference examined in the 2023-2024 Speak Up ...

Amidst teacher shortages and growing class sizes, pandemic learning losses and mounting behavioral issues, it can feel overwhelming trying to incorporate one more thing into the school day. But the ...

ChatGPT Study Mode provides students with a Socratic interface and experience designed to foster active learning and idea exploration rather than just passively receiving answers. Traditional student ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...

Lizélle Pretorius received funding from UNISA as part of a bursary when completing her PhD. She is currently a member of ISATT (International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching) and the Junior ...