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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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 283

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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Failure Attention Beliefs Lecturing 198

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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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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. Historically, I approached this lesson through direct instruction, building a presentation to support a lecture.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 160

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. 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.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

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. Teaching no longer involves a knowledgeable teacher who lectures from the front of the room.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 132

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. And so they’ve designed systems, strategies and tools to better hold the attention of their students, many of whom are working adults.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 198

Edsurge

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. I didn’t need to lecture about the anti-Asian history of California. A mix of nervous laughter and impressed silence fills the classroom. Firme is Chicano slang for “cool.” She didn’t apologize.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 159

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

If you’re looking for a crash course in digital education specifically, recordings from Stanford’s lecture series on Education’s Digital Future are all available for free online. Finally, share your data, your lessons, and your failures with the broader learning design community when possible. But listen for the underlying pain points.

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Feedback Failure Lecturing Reading 164

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher. Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.”

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 145

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

In a Mastery-Based program, a successful student is no longer defined as the one who arrives at school on time, homework completed, in their seat attentively listening to a teacher lecture. Grades are awarded but never connote failure. What does it look like? Only then does s/he move on. Keep working.

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Learning Achievement Failure Math 80

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

The end result is often a very high-bandwidth human discussion about the classroom subject material, wherein metrics for success and failure are critically engaged by students. Students will follow your lead here; they pay attention to how you run the class. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes.

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Instructors Assignments Failure Students 64

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

The end result is often a very high-bandwidth human discussion about the classroom subject material, wherein metrics for success and failure are critically engaged by students. Students will follow your lead here; they pay attention to how you run the class. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes.

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Instructors Assignments Failure Students 52

Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

In addition to this, it is important to keep instructional methods varied as research shows that a variety of teaching styles is more effective at keeping students engaged and giving information than simply expecting students to sit in rows and listen to lectures. Nonlinear effect of biological feedback on brain attentional state.

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Teaching Teachers Activities Reading 52

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. Faculty have been educated their whole academic lives in the lecture mode, and that’s what they reproduce in their own classrooms as instructors,” says Negar Farakish, assistant dean of the division.

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Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 164

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But actually, learning is failure driven; it's when surprising things happen that you're forced to learn new things. You're much more likely to pay attention if there are 25 other students in the room also paying attention than if there's nobody around and you can do whatever you want.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 145