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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The report is the work of the COVID Collaborative, a coalition of education, health and economic experts, written by the former directors of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Secretaries of Education, from both Democratic and Republican administrations.

Learning 218

Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

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APRIL 20, 2018

My day normally starts at the breakfast table with a cup of coffee in one hand, my cat circling the table below, and a laptop in front of me—all subjects vying for my morning attention. This is also the time when I catch up on updates in the world of higher education, and specifically around my profession of academic advising.

Failure 167

Failure Students Attention Questions 167

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

As a teacher, the long nights and weekends I spent creating and customizing resources, along with the thousands of dollars I spent each year buying classroom supplies, copy paper, books, winter coats, and even food for my students eventually led me to turn my attention to school finance: Why were there never enough resources for my students?

Education 204

Education Failure Special Education STEM 204

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? They learned how to learn.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. But, I do hope that 2018 will see a greater emphasis on coalition-building and renewed attention to how edtech can best contribute to this broader challenge.

Culture 149

Culture Failure Exams Attention 149

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The battle for innovations is currently happening on four fronts: Innovation from the outside: Whether you are funding educational technology companies or you are working for one your responsibility is the same. Pivot from streamlining our obsolete system towards new ways to use technology that support the future of learning.

Failure 165

Failure Multidisciplinary Testing Skills 165

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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JUNE 9, 2019

They have valuations in the billions; that’s a sign of where their attention is. It’s not on youth, education or even culture. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance. Failure only happens when you quit. “Maybe it’s a sign of the times.

Fairness 161

Fairness Failure Testing Culture 161

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I felt self-conscious about my failures every day. We know what its like not to register anything the teacher said and to be met with raised eyebrowsas if we are poor students who dont pay attention. For weeks, I would feel incredibly low, with sporadic days of high energy.

Teachers 171

Teachers Failure Attention Disabilities 171

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MAY 15, 2024

As I’ve considered whether to pursue the path toward principalship, I’ve paid close attention to what the job entails. Without ample funds, they are essentially set up for failure. I would like to become the kind of leader they were to me, and part of me feels compelled to honor their mentorship by becoming a school leader.

Schools 184

Schools Failure Attention Participation 184

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MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

Reading 160

Reading Failure Motivation Study 160

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

And she figured that games are not only fun and engaging, but they allow for greater agency and more room for failure, according to Dubé. Yet the attention iCivics games have garnered this year eclipses what they saw in 2016, she adds. “She felt it was boring, and that we needed a way to reach this new generation of kids.”

Failure 164

Failure Fairness Participation Writing 164

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Vallon: When I found out about Quest to Learn, what caught my attention wasn't just the game-like learning but the view on wellness. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." EdSurge: You’re a mental health professional; what attracted you to a school focused on game-based learning?

Game-Based Learning 178

Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 178

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

Let’s stop blaming students and/or demonizing technology as an evil succubus and address the real problem, which is disengaging learning environments. The solution to that problem is not to try and force students to pay attention to and comply with our boring lessons. Three competing visions of educational technology.

Failure 109

Failure Testing Critical Thinking Knowledge 109

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I once sat through a multi-hour meeting in which a college leader refused to accept responsibility for persistent issues with equity and inclusion that had been brought to their attention years prior. Some leaders may simply be reluctant to own failures they did not personally commit, even if it happened under their watch.

Failure 181

Failure Counselling Ethics Communication 181

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

That’s the conclusion reached by Barbara (“Bobbi”) Kurshan, a long-time veteran of the education technology world. Kurshan, a Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, has spent decades building edtech enterprises—both for-profit and nonprofit ones. That’s so 2010.

Failure 144

Failure Textbooks Attention Educational Technologies 144

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APRIL 6, 2017

These parents aren’t unsupportive of education technology. In fact, those who said their schools were doing a “good job” using technology were 2.5 Rather, their skepticism underscores just how hard it is to implement education technology initiatives well. So why do these efforts fall short?

Failure 135

Failure Instructors Attention Technology 135

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

In Mitchell’s keynote at OpenEd, she asked the audience of educators, librarians and other open education enthusiasts to think about their “tolerance for failure” in education. Each of us are making decisions about where we are okay with failure happening. Are they captioning their videos? What’s next on that end?

Textbooks 146

Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 146

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MARCH 18, 2019

Jennifer Albat suggested: “Pay attention when students introduce themselves. Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. [link] A set of shared practices in an online class community is built around the learning goals. We have to gain trust.”.

Failure 135

Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 135

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JUNE 5, 2017

The new law asks school leaders to not only consider grade-level proficiency, but encourages them to deploy funds to ensure that all students have access to a “well-rounded” education, that achievement gaps are closed, and that programs address the seemingly limitless causes of “academic failure” for at-risk students.

Failure 104

Failure Education Secondary Education Exams 104

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Likewise, with two million students, says Mitchell, “our algorithm will see vastly more student successes and failures than a human tutor can see in a 100-year career.” MIT Technology Review: China has started a grand experiment in AI education. Giving individualized attention is not easy for teachers,” says Kim.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Failure to include all stakeholders in the vision-setting process can lead to inconsistency, or what Anthony Principe refers to as a roulette of school models.

Failure 133

Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 133

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JULY 26, 2022

Many are also taking action to address child care challenges at their organizations and nationally, after the pandemic brought greater attention and awareness to the issue. businesses’ bottom line performance.

Confidentiality 198

Confidentiality Counselling Failure Evaluation 198

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MARCH 8, 2018

Such research, he says, has shown the importance of sending messages when students have academic successes, not just when failure is on the horizon. One of the best subject lines as far as getting students to pay attention, for instance, is “we’re proud of you.”

Failure 140

Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 140

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JULY 13, 2019

I could never pay full attention because I always felt on alert. I was a perfectionist who desperately wanted to please my teachers and parents and to prove myself, but so often I felt like a failure because I didn’t have the answer first. I was scared to be called on. I didn’t want to be put on the spot.

Discussions 168

Discussions Failure Textbooks Culture 168

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APRIL 5, 2018

For students who struggle with attention, the devices have become a tool of distraction and some of them will start playing video games or watching sports on YouTube if I’m not standing right behind them. I wanted to let my students take the lead and trust that all of them would stay on task, but I wasn’t convinced.

Learning 158

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

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JULY 17, 2018

But few colleges offer the same expansive attention to remote learners. On campus, students are coddled with high-end services, with 20 percent of higher education budgets going to student services and related costs at state schools and 30 percent at private colleges.

Education 146

Education Students Hybrid Courses Blended Courses 146

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JULY 20, 2017

To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert. Pay particular attention to his chapter on “powerful ideas” where he describes how essential it is to find the enduring, transformative concepts that you want to teach and put those at the forefront of your design approach.

Feedback 163

Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Furthermore, industry has shifting market demands and desperately needs higher education to step up and pivot in alignment with its needs. And as institutions look to become more efficient in how they use physical space, AI technology requires less infrastructure overhead while expanding learning capabilities.

Education 205

Education Learning Outcomes Study Failure 205

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JUNE 8, 2022

And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults. These institutions may pay attention not only to ordinary life circumstances that can derail students but also to emergencies like the pandemic. You want to avoid that.

Student Engagement 194

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 194

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JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. I believe the answer has been in front of us this whole time: video games.

Gamification 149

Gamification Learning Culture Students 149

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of my students, who I previously thought wasn’t paying attention, pipes up, “That’s firme !” I felt like a failure. A mix of nervous laughter and impressed silence fills the classroom. Firme is Chicano slang for “cool.” She didn’t apologize. It was like she was just waiting for me to stop talking and send her to the office.

Beliefs 156

Beliefs Coaching History Attention 156

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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.

Students 168

Students Math Writing Skills 168

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AUGUST 29, 2018

Special Education teacher Sean Arnold is serious about playful learning. In committing to the use of games for instruction, he’s not only found a unique way to capture his students’ attention but also to alter their incentives for learning while simultaneously redefining the concept of failure.

Gamification 129

Gamification Learning Learning Disabilities Students 129

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JANUARY 7, 2017

My work has exposed me to philanthropy, non-profit policy organizations, public schools, charter networks, and state departments of education where I have seen both success and failure when change was not implemented correctly. Differentiating rural districts vs. urban districts.

Education 128

Education Failure Attention Writing 128

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But they would also receive regular, personalized attention from a coach. Teachers liked the fact that they could dive right in and not worry about success or failure—only learning and creativity. Teachers were responsible for choosing their own topics and for a data-based research and development project.

Teachers 159

Teachers Coaching Schools Failure 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Their work got the attention of the registrar at MIT, which recently announced a pilot program that will issue digital diplomas through the blockchain. Instead of thinking of [credentials] as a fixed, static thing, it’s thinking of them as pieces of software that are more dynamic and you can build on a number of them.

Learning 134

Learning Failure Attention Testing 134