#Engaging Students

[kids-worldfun]

Make Learning Fun and Interactive with QR Codes in Classrooms

The 21st century has seen rapid tech adoption across all industries, and education is no exception. Learning has exploded beyond the confines of the classroom. A 2023 survey revealed that 89% of K-12 instructors use educational technology in their classrooms. This shift towards tech-inspired learning can impact how millennial and Gen Z students approach education. Teachers have seen more student…

[edernetdotorg]

Holiday Teaching Tips: Making Your Classroom Merry and Engaging

As the festive season twinkles into our classrooms, keeping our lively students focused can be as challenging as wrapping those oddly shaped presents! But don’t fret; we’ve got a sack full of merry and practical ideas to keep your classroom as lively and engaging as Santa’s workshop. Note: This article contains affiliate links to products. If you purchase products through these links, we may…

[mandeepsaini]

Strategies for Engaging Students in Classroom | Creative Ways of Engaging Students. Free Video Series

As an educator, one of your top priorities is to keep your students engaged in the classroom. It can be a challenging task, especially with the many distractions and competing interests that students face today.

Attention all educators! I would like to bring your attention to a fantastic video series on Strategies for Engaging Students or Audiences. This series includes an array of innovative and creative techniques that can be employed to captivate your students and keep them engaged throughout your lessons. Whether you are a teacher, instructor, or lecturer, this series is a must-watch and will provide…

[dramamomma56]

Ten Ways to Teach Reluctant Students in Your Theater Class

Ten Ways to Teach Reluctant Students in Your Theater Class

At least once a week, I read of a teacher asking help with, “My beginning theater class is open to all students in the school. However, it has become a dumping ground with students completely disinterested in theater and the study of it. At the same time, I have students who are sincerely interested in the subject in the same class.  What do I do?” Today, I’m going to talk about “Ten Ways to…

[the-cimmerians]

The Biden administration yesterday rolled out its latest tool to tackle the student debt crisis, and as we discussed earlier this year, it’s a good one. While the administration is still working on a broader debt forgiveness plan that it hopes will survive the Trump/McConnell Supreme Court, the new income-driven repayment program, called the “Saving on a Valuable Education” (SAVE) plan, should drastically cut the amount of student loan payments for lower-income borrowers, and for many, will actually get those payments down to zero.

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With the SAVE plan, the Education Department will no longer charge any interest that isn’t covered by the monthly loan payment, putting an end to the interest-accumulating hamster wheel that so many of us know all too well, where you make your payments on time but your goddamn loan balance keeps growing. As the fact sheet explains:

For example, if a borrower has $50 in interest that accumulates each month and their payment is $30 per month under the new SAVE plan, the remaining $20 would not be charged as long as they make their $30 monthly payment. The Department of Education estimates that 70 percent of borrowers who were on an IDR plan before the payment pause would stand to benefit from this change.

As with other income-driven plans, once a borrower has made payments for 20 years (for undergrad debt) or 25 years (for grad school debt), any remaining balance will be forgiven — yes, even if the monthly payment amount was zero for some or all of that period. Explain to your rightwing uncle that such forgiveness is not a new gimmick Joe Biden made up; it’s how IDR plans have worked since Congress authorized them in the 1990s.

[tboymordred]

“Yet she was a woman of wondrous learning, and she knew much about astrology, which Merlin had taught her. And later he taught her a great deal more about it...” - Story of Merlin

for @queer-ragnelle's May Day Parade (Anti-Queen Morgan)

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

throwback tuesday to that time when i took one of the few large lecture hall classes i ever took in college, a class on pre-1500s English literature, and the professor (a balding man with a British accent who banned computers because, according to him, he once caught someone watching Shrek 2 on a laptop during the lecture and he was upset it wasn't Shrek 1) stopped in the middle of talking about Beowulf to a hundred students to ask ME SPECIFICALLY (in the back half of the room but not all the way at the back) if I was using my smartphone under the table, so I had to lift up my hands and show him that no, I was knitting because the class had a bunch of printouts so I didn't need to take notes but the man wouldn't let me play spider solitaire or scroll tumblr and I had to do SOMETHING with my hands, and he was like, "ah, weaving peace I see. it seems we have the peaceweaver in our class" and then just carried on with things

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting really annoyed with the relationships unit in your sociology class because the whole thing is just 100% amatonormativity.

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if think your teacher, professor, and/or TAs might be interested in discussing the concept, I have some idea of bringing up the topic?

I'd personally say something like, "Hi, During our section in sociology around relationships, I couldn't help but think it would be interesting to discuss how a sociological theory called "amatonormativity" might relate to these lessons. I gathered a few sources from the professor who coined it, a thesis written on it, and a law review written about the connection between it and laws in the USA. There's some connections between its use in feminist thought and in queer theories, and I'd love to know your thoughts about it. I personally was thinking of when [specific statement] was said, and how I would apply this theory. I hope it's as interesting to you as it is to me."

Coiner's current webpage: https://elizabethbrake.com/amatonormativity/

Thesis: https://vc.bridgew.edu/honors_proj/330/ (click download in upper right hand corner for the PDF, depending on the individual it may be worth downloading and sending that rather than a link)

Law Review: https://uclawreview.org/2022/06/09/amatonormativity-in-the-law-an-introduction/

[thetimelordbatgirl]

The portraits of younger heroes and villains in totally-not-EAH-and-SFGAE-rip-off Merlin Academy, if anyone's curious. And like, before anyone goes at me for that nickname for Merlin Academy: the villains group portrait literally has 'V.K students' under it, implying they themselves are children of villains, which just opens up the idea that these kids basically became evil like their parents before them and the only ones to not be evil are the prior Descendants main characters, aka, similar to main characters in EAH and SFGAE. At this point, Disney is losing their right to complain if EAH does ever return because the only one copying right now in Disney.

[fireemblemseries]

high school aged elusians

[pansyfemme]

good day today! good day! just long

[angeltannis]

That era of my life predates my tumblr one, but I was a very big Leliana fan back in the day. I actually got into a debate in one of my Queer Studies courses back in college because someone brought her up as an example of Bad Queer Rap because she was “crazy”. I nearly started hurling chairs

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

[wind-becomes-lightning]

i could cry really

[nyansequitur]

wanted windflit to feel right at home so i made a dorm for him <3

[nyxelestia]

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