eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

Teachers 325

Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 325

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. How do you mean?

Failure 212

Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 212

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. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dan Meyer: That's a great question with a very contested answer. So then, when it comes to the assumptions behind personalized learning, what do you question as the biggest, most potentially damaging assumption? The biggest assumption I question is the degree to which technology replaces the word that sets off alarm bells (“teachers”).

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Questions Math Learning Grades 150

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

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. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

Teachers 286

Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 286

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Could I challenge my insecurities, the expectations of others, and the limits I hadnt yet questioned? Watching her left me questioning if I was cut out for this work. These choices forced me to confront a difficult question: Was I defying unjust systems, complying with them or complicit through silence?

Failure 182

Failure Students Questions Teaching 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Eyler: That is the perennial question. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

Art 167

Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. Why did it fail?

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments. Some are unmotivated to do an assignment without direct guidance. We would go through each element and students would take notes and ask questions before we began reading our first book.

Learning 161

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

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

Teaching Portfolio 167

Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Researchers at Columbia University went further to study the impact of weekly automated alerts to parents about their student’s missed assignments, grades and class absences. The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. Yes, she’s a chatbot.

Failure 172

Failure Communication Study Change Management 172

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. 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. This translates to them not being able to view the web pages where assignments are stored.

Teaching 201

Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 201

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Often, when I give my eighth grade students homework assignments, I receive many phone calls asking for help, or the work never gets done because the parents can’t help and don’t have the tools or resources to support them. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

Math 214

Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge Time required: 1.5

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters. By placing the structure in the purpose of the assignment, I opened up more possibilities. I am still grappling with these questions. There were my guidelines.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

Laboratory 107

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. Students complete math questions to level up (become more powerful) and ultimately defeat Crios, Prodigy’s main antagonist.

Math 152

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. Those same questions prompted leaders at Georgia State to adopt some practices common to online-only institutions in spring 2020 when classes moved online.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. Students were energetic, interested, asked great questions, engaged in excellent collaboration. Students got lots of questions and suggestions, both from classmates and from me, as they gave in-class presentations and discovered proofs in teams.

Feedback 184

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 184

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Many of these accounts clearly illustrate both the challenge of answering the above question as well as the benefit and absolute necessity of doing so. Some of these educators will be joining us at the EdSurge Fusion Conference in October, working to help attendees find their own answer to this same question.

Failure 135

Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 135

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. Failure to achieve those rates could have led to price increases on course materials.

Textbooks 167

Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You enter and on the board is your first assignment: create something—a drawing, a model of a house, a sketch of a new product, a sculpture. And tells you your next assignment is to pick up the pieces (including yourself) and make something new. You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.”

Education 167

Education Schools Art History 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” 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? That’s wonderful!”

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. They listen to students as they are teaching, maybe through a backchannel or questions, hear where the lesson plan isn’t working, and adjust as needed. I had a 4th grader once. They are committed to a student’s success.

Teachers 141

Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Some essential study habits include: Time management: Allocate specific time slots for studying and create a schedule that accommodates coursework, assignments, and personal commitments.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Some essential study habits include: Time management: Allocate specific time slots for studying and create a schedule that accommodates coursework, assignments, and personal commitments.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

Laboratory 87

Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 87

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

My students don’t always work so collaboratively—they are ninth graders, after all, and are accustomed to working on individual assignments for the benefit of their own grades. They weren’t completing an assignment for a grade, but building something for real people. But something about this project pulled them together.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Instead, I provide rich feedback. Why or why not?

Grades 104

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 104

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments. To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98