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 ...

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 ...

How do I get students interested in active learning? We all want to help students learn more. Here’s something I wrote about the topic for Character Lab as a Tip of the Week: A few years ago, a group ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Understanding a proof in a math textbook is one thing; being able to reconstruct it without help is a whole other beast entirely. My classmates and I learned this the hard way at university. Most of ...

Candice Faktor, Co-CEO of Disco, the AI native learning platform built for human transformation. Tech Leader, Keynote Speaker ...