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 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They will not need to pass multiple choice tests or regurgitate facts to be successful in 2035. Testing new models: Develop and test new school models. The benefit here is that these schools can work outside the system to test and reveal formerly inconceivable models for education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. The only “test” is whether the thing works. They have valuations in the billions; that’s a sign of where their attention is. Failure only happens when you quit.

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Fairness Failure Testing Culture 161

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. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 172

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. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 160

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

The economists found that banning mobile phones helped improve student achievement on standardized test scores , with the biggest gains seen by low-achieving and at-risk students. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement. if they did, how sad is that?).

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Failure Testing Critical Thinking Knowledge 109

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

Learning 158

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

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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. Fear of tests or a bad day shouldn’t measure student knowledge or assess their success.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

To prevent that kind of outcome, he encouraged colleges to watch the data closely as they implement such systems, and to test the wording of their nudges to find out how students would respond to the alerts. 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 140

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. This particular diagnostic is meant to mimic the Georgia state milestone test they will be taking at the end of the semester.

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Failure Testing Learning Assignments 111

Edsurge

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. Too Much Help—Or Not Enough?

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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

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. This year, the high school has plans to put special emphasis on the test in order to prove blended learning is effective.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 142

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

It’s an observation that has won attention and admirers such as New York Times columnist David Brooks. Educators teach, sometimes administer a test, and move students on to the next unit or body of material regardless of their results, effort and understanding of the topic. If they fail, that’s fine.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Skills 120

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

On those days, I would go over and give him some attention. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. Some days we would talk.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 112

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. 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.

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Students Math Writing Skills 168

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. Learners, especially adolescents, test boundaries and try on new identities and personalities. A mix of nervous laughter and impressed silence fills the classroom. Firme is Chicano slang for “cool.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2017

Once we break free from the constraints of the traditional school clock, we can then turn our attention to the second variable necessary for a culture of personalized learning: the teacher. Gone are the days of a course-pacing guide that locks a team of teachers to a prescribed lesson plan or “unit test.” See their face.

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Learning Coaching English Failure 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But edtech failures are tinged with a special pain because of the significant costs—both in dollars and time—that individual educators and schools must invest to adopt and successfully use any new technology. Statistically more startups fail than succeed.

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Failure Textbooks Attention Educational Technologies 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

He was curious about ways to secure those records, and by 2016 the Media Lab partnered with Learning Machine to test their ideas with blockchain, an open ledger that permanently records transactions on a distributed digital database. Schmit hopes more colleges will try their own experiments and approaches.

Learning 134

Learning Failure Attention Testing 134

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

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Then, I test instructional concepts and product ideas by building rough prototypes that I put in front of learners to get their feedback quickly. 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 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2018

Independent Teacher Do you have an arsenal of battle-tested lesson plans and exercises, proven to be successful in an online classroom? One of the coveted aspects of teaching ESL online is the ability to work with students in a one on one environment—providing undivided attention in short, meaningful classes.

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Questions Teaching Failure Discussions 129

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. High-stakes exams may in fact do a better job of measuring how well students cope with test taking, rather than assessing actual learning. But not just any feedback.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. I’ve been there often.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2 You’re competing for the dollars, but also for the school’s attention. Launched in 2000, it developed Study Island, a computer-based test-prep software tied to state standardized tests. Schools spend on content, activities and tests, then piece them together.

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Testing Failure Curriculum English 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She brings together research done across decades and in various disciplines.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 12, 2019

If students don’t do what they need to in preparation for a test, they won’t get the result they hope for. See if you agree: “Success comes of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” These eleven geeky words get the attention of my students and inspire them to proudly “put their geek on”. Yogi Berra. #11:

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Failure Learning Communication Curriculum 88

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Playful Learning Image Credit: Sean Arnold There are a number of reasons I use games for instruction , but the most compelling is the power games have to shift student incentives and redefine failure. Scientists test their ideas about the world around them and there is always a method to their efforts.

Motivation 142

Motivation Students Special Education Math 142

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Reflecting on our approach to course design—particularly with attention to how we build community and cultivate belonging—couldn’t come at a more crucial time. High-stakes exams may in fact do a better job of measuring how well students cope with test taking, rather than assessing actual learning. But not just any feedback.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. 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. What does it look like?

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Learning Achievement Failure Math 90

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Dhawal Shah, Class Central I want to quickly touch on your earlier question about monetization because I think there is attention in higher education about the fact that we're actually a business. Isn't that a failure?” They have to prototype something, and test it in the real world. They have to upload the assignment.

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Questions Failure Skills Online Learning 164

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She brings together research done across decades and in various disciplines.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Are kids learning to think or just to pass tests? To integrate a Growth Mindset into your teaching, start by paying attention to what is and isn’t working for individual students as they work through lessons. In a Fixed Mindset your failures define you like, “I’m no good at dancing!” That’s growth.

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Critical Thinking Failure Evaluation Fairness 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. I’ve been there often.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76