eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, last September, a ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) drew national attention after it was confirmed that Social Security numbers and the private, sensitive information of staff and students was exposed. This ensures smooth operations, uninterrupted services, and safer student data.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. But he agreed that the takeaway should be to pay more attention to context in learning science research. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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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 started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I felt like I spent more time managing behaviors than teaching. That did not work for me at all.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

As a mother, I can say that’s also true for parenting, which is problematic for educators who are also parents because the demands for attention and care are increased. Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy. And it takes time and patience for the work of self-compassion to bear fruit.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled. None of them partnered with OPMs.

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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 started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I felt like I spent more time managing behaviors than teaching. That did not work for me at all.

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Edsurge

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. The field of academic advising has received more attention in the last decade than in the thirty years prior for two primary reasons.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win.

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 172

Edsurge

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?

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Edsurge

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.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As long as the digital divide remains, it stands as a failure of national will that translates into greater educational inequities,” the former Education Secretaries write in the foreword. During these live meetings, the authors write, educators should pay attention to and support student well-being.

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Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Transformation from the inside: This requires the redesign of an existing school and requires methodical attention as school teams work together to shift existing procedures and practices. ReclaimFailure: In the efficiency model of schooling, failure is an unnecessary and pesky delay. We are made to triumphantly fail forward.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. There is a theory in pedagogy that suggests that human beings cannot focus their attention on a single activity for more than 12 minutes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If you were clever, paid attention, had good memorization skills and could afford it, you could even progress to college and possibly to graduate school, where your agreed-upon knowledge would qualify you for a profession. School used to be about gaining a shared body of knowledge. The world is changing. The future is global.

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Learning Failure Languages Language 243

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

They have valuations in the billions; that’s a sign of where their attention is. 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. It’s not on youth, education or even culture.

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Fairness Failure Testing Culture 161

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. John’s story ideas were something akin to movie plots, and these unique plots captured your attention. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots. and globally.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break.

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Edsurge

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.

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Teachers Failure Attention Disabilities 171

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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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. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. She didn’t do it by being an easy grader or downsizing my work requirements or even unduly praising me.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Edsurge

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.

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Edsurge

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.

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Schools Failure Attention Participation 182

Edsurge

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.”

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Failure Fairness Participation Writing 162

Edsurge

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?

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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.

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Failure Counselling Ethics Communication 181

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

give as little policy attention as possible to the known educational needs of students who live in poverty or don’t speak English as their primary language (and thus struggle academically), even as those student and family populations increase markedly within the state.

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Failure Education English STEM 89

Edsurge

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.

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Edsurge

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.”.

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 132

Edsurge

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. So how is it possible that we can expect that as an outcome?

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Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 142

Edsurge

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.” Giving individualized attention is not easy for teachers,” says Kim. More information about Squirrel AI. It could reshape how the world learns.

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Edsurge

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.

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Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 131

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

The solution to that problem is not to try and force students to pay attention to and comply with our boring lessons. ’ That’s an indictment of our failure to differently imagine learning and teaching. That’s not teaching students ‘grit.’

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Failure Testing Critical Thinking Knowledge 109

Edsurge

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.”

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Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 139

Edsurge

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.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98