eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. The best part?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. Let’s Review the Characteristics of Effective Feedback In an article for ASCD, Grant Wiggins identifies key elements that make feedback particularly effective in enhancing student learning. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This story is Part 3 of our 3-part series on Lessons Learned in 2016. Educators made much of their learning opportunities in 2016, whether through professional development sessions, webinars, product demos, or even conferences. I strive to have my learners engaged and take ownership for their own learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. Most letter grade systems are effectively criterion based.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity. A claim about integrity is supported by a learners ability to transparently document and reflect on the learning process and explain or expand on their results.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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eSchool News

JULY 31, 2024

Online learning, for example, requires constant connectivity–should the network go down, students will have no way of accessing learning materials or turning in assignments. Likewise, network outages can block staff from accessing financial and operational systems and learning management applications.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

Whether it’s failing to complete work at home, not turning in assignments, or avoiding school altogether, students with anxiety display an affect often confused with disinterest and complacency. As educators struggle to understand anxiety and its implications for student success in schools, so too do the parents of these students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning page In education, we tend to move pretty slowly when it comes to adopting new technology, and that pattern won’t change with artificial intelligence (AI). In the coming year, early adopters will continue to play with new AI tools to see how they can be used in education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?

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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. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. You are about to learn the magic of classroom leadership. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment. newsletters.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Tip 4: Promote personalized goal-setting and planning Yusuff (2018) found that personalized goal-setting and planning can improve academic performance and lead to more positive perceptions of learning experiences among students. Learning to deal with setbacks is a skill which will have lifelong benefits in a variety of situations.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Tip 4: Promote personalized goal-setting and planning Yusuff (2018) found that personalized goal-setting and planning can improve academic performance and lead to more positive perceptions of learning experiences among students. Learning to deal with setbacks is a skill which will have lifelong benefits in a variety of situations.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

To be prepared for success, struggling students need just as many opportunities to participate in self-directed learning and to develop autonomy as high-achieving students. My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” I think there’s a real art to that.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

You are about to learn the magic of classroom leadership. To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

He and his colleagues at U-M’s Gameful Learning Lab are working together to incorporate essential elements of well-designed games into courses. Our goal is really to help people think differently about teaching and learning,” Niemer says. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. Gameful Design.

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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. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment. Lessons learned: Confidence affects effort.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Why is it so hard to teach K-12 educators how to promote student agency and to provide choices around content and pacing—why is it so hard to teach educators how to personalize learning? It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. I’ve been there often.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. And that is one of the learning objectives: that we know very little about other places.” University of Michigan marketing professor John Branch rebuilds the learning experience by taking a precision engineering approach to course design. Source: Course Hero. Why did it fail?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching while still learning to manage a classroom and create cohesive, engaging lessons in a new environment was humbling and daunting. Those early years gave me the freedom to try new ideas, take risks and learn from my mistakes. Transformation, Ive learned, isnt a single dramatic act.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. These issues made it extremely difficult for me to decipher his thoughts and grade his assignments.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. For example, Bruff teaches a statistics course where he uses an infographics assignment that he adapted from Sidneyeve Matrix, an associate professor at Queen’s University, in Canada. “In But there’s no standards.” “It

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way. The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto.

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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. Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

I explain to him how I desperately need the data this test will provide so I can design the class around his learning needs. That will continue the cycle of failure. But this approach requires that we collect, interpret and use data to guide each learning experience on a regular basis—and that can be daunting.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Over the past year, we’ve collected dozens of stories from educators and school leaders around the country, each at varying stages of personalized learning implementation in their schools and districts. At Fusion 2018 , we’ll be examining personalized learning for the whole learner through three distinct lenses: Vision. Implementation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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