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Effective Strategies for Sustaining Student Attention during PowerPoint Lectures

Faculty Focus

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). 2013; Felder & Brent, 2016). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2016. Bradbury, N. Attention span during lectures: 8 seconds, 10 minutes, or more?

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

The 18th-century Jaquet-Droz automatamechanical dolls mimicking human actionsfurthered this vision (Riskin, 2016). The 2010s brought deep learning, with neural networks emulating human cognition; Google’s AlphaGo defeated Go champion Lee Sedol in 2016, devising strategies its creators couldn’t predict (Silver et al.,

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Such policies demonstrate compassion and respect for the complexities of students’ lives (Nilson, 2016; Hammond, 2015). Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Corwin Press.

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Leader of Learning Podcast episode 165: Exploring the Future of Technology in Education with John Sowash

Leader of Learning

John discusses the future of technology in education, specifically focusing on the impact of AI and the latest developments in Google’s educational tools. Guest Information: Since 2011, John has worked with schools around the world, providing practical, hands-on professional development and technology integration support.

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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of our most defining initiatives started in 2016: the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a $50 million investment by the Lilly Endowment. Or look at the work happening at Morehouse around the metaverse, where they are taking technology and uplifting the stories, theories, and practices of their institution in a virtual world.

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Special Education Professor Taps into Technology, Grant Funding to Engage Students

Insight Into Diversity

She received GMU’s Teaching Excellence Award for Technology-Enhanced Teaching in 2016, the inaugural GMU Online Teaching Excellence Award in 2018, and the John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching in 2023. Shown: A student uses a technology-based graphic organizer.

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Beyond Syllabus Week: Creative Strategies to Engage Students from Day One

Faculty Focus

In many classes, professors go over the syllabus during the first week (Richmond, 2016), so frequently that students have dubbed it syllabus week not exactly the most exciting start to a semester! While some involve additional technology, leveraging these tools can enhance the experience and make the syllabus more interactive.