eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images. You just want to get the conversation going and have tools to help connect the activity back to your curriculum.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Otherwise, instructional challenges or lack of student engagement could be to blame.

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 265

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For the sake of our students, we must embrace the changing role of the school librarian. 2017 was a year filled with makerspaces, student engagement, personalized learning, and more. “Never underestimate what students are capable of.” The library is a place for all students to feel safe and welcome.

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Failure Learning Learning Styles Skills 226

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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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.). Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement. Student engagement is critical regardless of what subject is being taught.

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STEM Science Failure History 280

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Through online portfolios, students know if they are meeting standards and are able to adjust as necessary. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures. Recently, students researched Supreme Court cases that may impact them and reflected on this in their journals.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 198

Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

This involves evaluating the most effective methods and learning environments to engage students and enhance their achievement of desired learning outcomes. As students and educators adapt to digital platforms, student engagement has emerged as a key concern in online learning.

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Student Engagement Instructors Lecturing Students 78

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

It promotes student learning and understanding of the task, and helps students develop a stronger foundation for future assignments. It increases student engagement when instructors motivate students to participate more actively in class. It develops critical thinking skills. Reference Vygotsky, L.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

It promotes student learning and understanding of the task, and helps students develop a stronger foundation for future assignments. It increases student engagement when instructors motivate students to participate more actively in class. It develops critical thinking skills. Reference Vygotsky, L.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 94

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Gameful Learning Lab is one of three, large-scale labs supported under a new enterprise at the university called Academic Innovation , currently made up of 66 initiatives “charged with developing a culture of innovation in learning” that can bring about “personalized, engaged and lifelong” learning experiences. Gameful Design.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 165

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Not every kindergartner can boast that she helped build a robot with high school students. But this is exactly what Kate Sample did, at the age of five, when her parents became actively involved in the FIRST ? Not every kindergartner can boast that she helped build a robot with high school students. I'll just rebuild it.

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STEM Teaching Failure High School 187

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Its conclusion?

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Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Early Assessment First, it’s essential that teachers get an accurate understanding of each student’s reading level as early as possible. If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. This highlights, again, the importance of assessment.

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Failure Motivation Assistive Technology Reading 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. Whether creating digital resources and activities or planning a large purchase of student devices, the technology should support the learning, not the other way around.

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Blended Learning Failure Learning Learning Outcomes 151

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. Did we have failures?

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 192

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

AI-driven tools can analyze student performance data, allowing for personalized learning plans that address individual strengths and areas for growth. AI can also help streamline managerial tasks, freeing up educators’ time for instruction and student engagement.

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Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 212

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

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. Promote physical activity : Encourage students to stay physically active, even when learning from home.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the Institute for Teaching and Leading , a professional learning organization that I co-founded, many of our partner districts are focused less on deficits and more on active learning, which we call the asset-based mindset. In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas.

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression. As Anjelica aptly points out, students should be actively involved because they are the ones for whom education is designed.

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Education Students Writing Social Studies 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or a student who may not be into games but collaborates well with others can excel working on a project where the deliverable is a poster or something similar. Many of the project-based activities and games don't necessarily have a single winner. It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 187

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. There is a growing need to report on student activity more holistically.

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Participation Communication Failure Hybrid Learning 216

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. I understand the importance of engaging every student and making sure each child is actively listening. But what these methods can do, especially for a student like me, is cause this constant feeling of being on edge.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Furthermore, the study projected that this lack of learning could diminish students’ earning potential over their lifetimes and even reduce the U.S. Streamlined learning experiences promote student engagement and program completion, thus improving student retention and persistence. gross domestic product.

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Education Learning Outcomes Study Failure 209

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. Actively fostering this state in our schools could have dramatic effects. Don’t just take my word for it.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In addition to the language generated by the students themselves in their projects, I found that a huge amount of English was being generated as students shared tips, accessed online guides and built a common understanding. Here are six examples of higher-order thinking skills my students developed while creating and playing games: 1.

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Languages Language Skills English 165

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

“Validation is critical in using relationships to build academic success, especially for diverse students,” Costa also said, adding: “For our new traditional students who are often first generation, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Use active learning techniques.

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 132

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. It’s particularly great for first-generation students who’ve never been to college before and whose family members have not been to college. Students can share those results on the discussion board or talk in small groups. They really enjoy it. If they didn’t, why not?

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Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 101

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

As a recent graduate who is new to the field of academic innovation I asked, “How can students engage meaningfully with institutional change?” My question was followed by a 40-minute session with a group of the college and university officials, who offered solutions and insights on the relationship between students and innovation.

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Motivation Students Failure Participation 117

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Gardner: Major changes are needed to shift beyond access policies to success policies, in which students are required to participate in programs and activities that have a research-based link to success. They must also redesign matriculated students' gateway courses that have unacceptable failure rates.

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Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 151

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. Without extra support early on, many students dont know how to play what she calls the game of school, Johnson says.

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Students Math Writing Skills 176

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Motivation Counselling Intelligence Student Engagement 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Taking the temperature Evidence suggests that checking in with students on how they’re feeling, even for a moment, has significant benefits (Klem & Connell, 2004; Zengaro & Zengaro, 2022; Burke et. As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2025

Without considering the emotional and social aspects of a student’s educational journey, particularly the connections they build with faculty and peers, institutions risk overlooking the things that keep students engaged, motivated, and ultimately enrolled. Simply put, data is not enough.

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Motivation Counselling Intelligence Student Engagement 99

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

The idea was to see whether such personalized notifications could spur parents to play a more active role in their child’s schooling. What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 108