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Joyce Carol Oates On Teaching Creative Writing
The acclaimed author has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. Maybe, she allows, it’s “like a chess …
3 years, 3 months ago
How Hollywood Stereotypes About Teachers Stifle Learning
Romanticized depictions of teaching in popular culture fail to capture the way teaching actually works — and they create an unattainable model that s…
3 years, 3 months ago
Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them
Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. So they…
3 years, 4 months ago
ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity
Many professors are expressing frustration and even “terror” over ChatGPT, the latest AI tool that students may be using to write their papers for th…
3 years, 4 months ago
How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters
Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innov…
3 years, 4 months ago
How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement
Professors are finding that they can’t just go back to teaching as they did before the pandemic and expect the same result. It takes more these days …
3 years, 4 months ago
What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?
A new AI chatbot can spit out long-form answers to just about any question, in a way that sounds eerily human. Students are already figuring out they…
3 years, 5 months ago
Is College Worth It? A Father and Son Disagree on Whether to Finish Their Degrees
Is a college degree necessary these days? One father and son exemplify a generational difference when it comes to that question. Both dropped out of …
3 years, 5 months ago
An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’
EdSurge visited large lecture classes to get a sense of what college feels like now that COVID is more under control after years of pandemic disrupti…
3 years, 5 months ago
A Teacher’s Podcast Got Him Fired. It Also Led to Greater Self-Reflection
These days many teachers are documenting their lives on podcasts, Instagram or other social media. It all adds up to a kind of virtual teacher’s loun…
3 years, 5 months ago