Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. When done effectively, gamified learning can motivate even the most reluctant readers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. The beauty of self-assessment lies in the empowerment it provides learners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. In the classroom, it can be as straightforward as transforming learning activities into games or a more subtle application of game-design principles to learning tasks.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 106

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. Process feedback is vital in enhancing student learning by honing their metacognitive skills , guiding their efforts, boosting motivation, and fostering a growth mindset.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

And while listening and reading aren’t that difficult to conquer (both are passive skills about consuming the language, so they are easier for students to handle), active skills like speaking and writing are another thing: Why is writing so critical for students to master? As a teacher, you can use it for educational purposes.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Just as Dallman-Weiss and McNay complement each other’s abilities on the water, creating environments where diverse voices are not only heard but actively encouraged is a game-changer in any field. By actively supporting female colleagues, male leaders not only promote fairness but also drive better outcomes for their organizations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. School leaders and personnel will take a more active role in addressing the emotional toll of safety procedures like lockdown drills, and in building community as a vital safety measure in schools. Dr. Becky A.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Set Goals With Positive Motivation According to Dr. Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Seventy-four percent of teachers from high-SES districts and 64 percent from low-SES districts reported their schools had cut the amount of time scheduled for child-directed activities in recent years. . Of course the benefits of active learning are apparent beyond the kindergarten sector.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Students often learn best by doing and by being active participants in the learning process. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). This keeps them motivated and having fun, while they continue to learn and explore. Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Before, students were mostly concerned with getting the work done; now, they are motivated to reflect and improve. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures. Through online portfolios, students know if they are meeting standards and are able to adjust as necessary.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 198

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Another surprise, Hattie said, was that the more active learning done in a flipped classroom, the worse the outcome.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the activities that this former teacher would do was have the students write a blog and reflect every day. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur? That really motivates me to continue. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 160

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. The problem, of course, is that people don’t tend to enjoy activities they struggle with, and students who find reading difficult are no different. This highlights, again, the importance of assessment.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., As a result, she adapted her teaching by breaking down the process into smaller projects and activities centered on each phase of the design thinking process. the designers) in real-world problem solving.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. The points for each activity are capped within the system. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. Gameful Design.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. For some, it would be talking from minute one till the end of class, but for others it would be mostly talking, some activity, some other kind of mix.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S., The takeaway?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Beyond it being the children’s favorite activity, I didn’t fully understand why play would be so important on that particular day. On the surface, it can feel much more manageable to plan out activities with set goals and parameters, and of course that type of structure has value. Play is a natural human behavior.

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Attention Communication Failure Languages 217

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

John Dewey encouraged me to make all activities meaningful, while Jean Piaget and Seymour Papert inspired me to use hands-on learning. Playful learning, open-ended challenges and social activities seemed to captivate my students. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning.

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 145

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. These solutions will prioritize the relationship between teacher and student, enabling teachers to serve as motivators and facilitators of student learning, which is critical to student engagement and success.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. Actively fostering this state in our schools could have dramatic effects. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

And the motivation for institutional change is student needs. So when we talk about innovation, why are students missing as active participants in the conversation? When we talk about innovation, why are students missing as active participants in the conversation? The consensus? Innovation is the solution.

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Motivation Students Failure Participation 117

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. List of ingredients 1.Clear

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure. This motivates them to complete their classes and gives them a person they can trust throughout their time in college.

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Students Math Writing Skills 176

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. List of ingredients 1.Clear

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. If you’re using Minecraft as a class activity, consider these best practices: Expect a learning curve and plan time for one. Make failure fun. Tell me stuff about them.

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