eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

At Webb, where about 75 percent of students are on free or reduced lunch, sinking test scores and references to a “failing school” led to low morale among parents and staff. “One of the stipulations I had when taking this role was I still want to be actively involved in the classroom,” Nesloney said. ”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While older students may pause and analyze success and failure in between solutions, younger children tend to move more quickly from one solution to the next. Exploring materials and methods : This is a great hands-on activity for preschoolers and kindergartners. They get to touch, squish, and test the properties of different items.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. You can also share it to most social media.

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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? Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5 Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Dr. Becky A. Jamie Candee, CEO, Edmentum. •

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. It was assumed that students would struggle.

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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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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 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? Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 290

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium.

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Failure Peer Review Learning Science 150

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The intervention did correlate with increased course activity for a week or two, but the effect faded out over the length of the course. Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials.

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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

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5 Students love this game.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. 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. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

I have heard that “those” kids “need” to focus on the basics, that they aren’t ready for complex thinking or a skills-based education, that they aren’t developmentally prepared to have agency, or to act as an active participant in their own learning. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators.

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Testing Failure Achievement History 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

But this is exactly what Kate Sample did, at the age of five, when her parents became actively involved in the FIRST ? She saw how engaged her peers were in the activities, how they worked together and celebrated each individual’s skills and interests. They don't see it as a failure. I'll just rebuild it. I'll just change this."

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STEM Teaching Failure High School 189

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They will not need to pass multiple choice tests or regurgitate facts to be successful in 2035. Testing new models: Develop and test new school models. The benefit here is that these schools can work outside the system to test and reveal formerly inconceivable models for education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

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). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Education Motivation Failure Attention 207

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Yet even though the school is zoned for a wealthy area of Manhattan, where achievement is highly prized, standardized test scores were nothing special. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The rest of the time they’re doing related activities that don’t involve gaming at all. The takeaway?

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Incorporate mindfulness into lessons: Introduce brief mindfulness or meditation activities during online classes to help students manage stress and improve concentration. Promote physical activity : Encourage students to stay physically active, even when learning from home.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2020

Their failures are ours. What are we doing to activate our students’ latent potential beyond the narrowly-proscribed ways that schools currently choose to recognize? The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores. The fault lies with us, not with them. Related Posts.

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Failure Students Testing Culture 93

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. So there should be failure in all of our classes. And so the laughter just isn’t always there.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 149

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 165

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JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. Education used to be thought of as the 8-2 in a child’s day with maybe an hour or so of homework.

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Education STEM Failure Participation 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5 Students love this game.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Team Challenge.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. This particular diagnostic is meant to mimic the Georgia state milestone test they will be taking at the end of the semester.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

We don’t expect to solve deep questions around policies and accountability in education, but we do debate these topics and apply our knowledge during in-class activities. Knee: A set of case studies about some of the biggest edtech failures, with amazing lessons for current companies. Read the updates too: parts one and two.

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