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Interactive Teaching is the formal term for the educational approach established at Waikato University as part of the Learning in Science Project in the 1980s. Interactive teaching is the practice of engaging students in the educational process by encouraging them to involve their own experiences and knowledge. Regular teacher-student interaction, student-student interaction, the use of audio-visuals, and hands-on demonstrations are all examples of interactive teaching. The students are continuously encouraged to participate actively. Here are the 20 most successful interactive teaching activities to engage your students. 1. Interactive Demonstrations In the classroom, interactive demonstrations can be used to show how...

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Last week, YouTube was in the news yet again after user Matt Watson hit the front page of Reddit with a video explaining a phenomenon he had discovered while on the video-sharing platform. Watson found that within a few clicks of normal, appropriate, and monetized (ad-sponsored) videos one could enter a wormhole of inappropriate, eroticized clips of girls as young as nine years old. In some instances, these videos were monetized, timestamped to flag suggestive moments in the videos, or had private, unlisted links that led invited users to view other pornography, sometimes of children. Reaction was swift. Such advertisers...

In 1938, during the Great Depression, my grandmother was a teenager and one of ten kids in a Portuguese immigrant farmer in Massachusetts. She enjoyed radio shows like The Shadow. Her family couldn’t afford a radio but listened at a wealthy neighbor’s house. On October 30, 1938, she heard the middle of an apparent news broadcast about Martians invading New Jersey and coming up the East Coast — towards her state! The “news report” was actually The Mercury Theatre on the Air’s infamous broadcast of H.G. Wells’s 40-year-old sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds, narrated by Orson Welles. My...

These video games are educational as well as fun! A lot of parents and public figures worry that video games are bad for kids. It’s understandable; seeing your kids sitting idle indoors, staring at a screen for hours at a time might be worrying. But those who play them know that video games are way more than just “fun”–they’re mentally challenging too. Video games require memory, strategy, resource management, problem-solving, and critical thinking, to just name a few. Some even make use of mathematics and musical rhythm. And let’s not ignore the straight-up diligence that some of the harder games...