Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

As someone who has dedicated her career to helping educators leverage online and blended learning to transform their classrooms, this pandemic has certainly provided an opportunity to do the work I love most. This is not what online and blended learning should look like. Let’s be honest, though. Change is scary.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Teachers and students alike wrestled with the steep learning curve of remote teaching and learning. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. Summer is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more months of school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

For a conference named after “blended learning,” many attendees were surprised to learn that they did not agree on what the term meant. I was talking to a colleague who was using blended and personalized learning the same way,” says Dance. Here’s a blog post that teases at the 10 blended learning models she’s seen.)

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

They learn to set realistic yet challenging goals for themselves and devise strategies to reach those goals. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

These leaders react to failure with coaching and reflective data analysis rather than negative consequences. Many of these leaders choose to pilot tools with small groups of teachers, distill learnings, and then use exemplar artifacts from within the school community to bring new strategies to life for the whole school community.

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Achievement Blended Learning Failure Coaching 155

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Ben Davis Extended Day (BDED) blended learning program is an extension of one of the district’s high schools, Ben Davis High School. Perhaps the same is true in your district, but how many of those same opportunities are available to teachers as well?

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Social Studies Blended Learning Learning English 273

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Today, most teachers opt for a flavor of blended learning: using both multimedia and text to create a more engaging educational experience. Educators and teachers now, however, can use specialized AI chatbots to realize this dream, using attempted assessments and answer keys to grade, mark, and provide feedback.

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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. Rethink Use of Instructional Time Schools should use asynchronous (self-paced) and synchronous (live virtual) learning strategically.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most educational organizations want to improve teaching and learning by leveraging technology. The terms blended learning and its subset, flipped learning, are touted extensively as useful educational goals. Want your tech rollout to be successful? First, you need the right mindset.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“Summer [learning] is usually not required,” says Gill, who spoke on a recent EdSurge/ISTE webinar on the subject, which is embedded below. But blended learning options are few and far between. Half continued to grade student work, either through letter grades or a pass/fail system that may include incompletes. “If

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Schools Failure Students Blended Learning 177

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

When we feel like students’ every movement is a reflection of our professional competency or personal failure, it is easy to focus more on enforcing student compliance than cultivating student joy. Ultimately, it hurts students when teachers approach our work from a place of stress and fear.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. The list goes on and on.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I integrated project-based learning and technology in all kinds of ways. I asked them to create blogs to interact through blended learning. Did we have failures? But I would tell my students, We will learn from this. I asked my English language learners to create films. I asked them to create websites. Absolutely.

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 194

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While this failure felt terrible at the time, it ended up being the driving force behind the creation of a new high school transition program for students with mild to moderate disabilities. Horn on Blended Learning. He returned home after just one semester at college. Video: ONEder, the Pittsburgh Penguins & AIU.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In 2005, he helped start Rocketship Education, a charter network based in the San Francisco Bay Area that embraced online technology and the “ blended learning ” lab model. It was there that Danner learned about the difficulties of the K-12 market, from entrepreneurs who shared with him their struggles selling to other schools.

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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. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. At 19, John was behind in school and still trying to graduate. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Blended learning. Personalized learning. Competency- and project-based learning. The most important part of exploring innovative ideas is sharing your successes (and failures) with your peers so that your ideas can be duplicated, built upon and customized to work in other environments.

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History Critical Thinking Learning Interdisciplinary 138

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? The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory. That’s wonderful!”

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. The list goes on and on.

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Failure Gamification Blended Learning Collaborative Learning 75

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

From early attempts at building learning management systems in the 1990s to today’s explosion of infrastructure and software in classrooms, Palmer charts the success and failures of edtech—and why he’s bullish about the future. Three students share how they’re still learning, and how schools can help.

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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? The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory. That’s wonderful!”

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

Previously in her career, Jackson had seen districts set unrealistic expectations for device and network connectivity that resulted from a failure to build a strong IT foundation. For example, one district that bought tablets had no cellular connection or Wi-Fi on-premises. Data Center Upgrades Power Up Classroom Connections.

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Mobile Devices Failure Blended Learning Testing 114

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After identifying the barrier to learning, the faculty mentor assists in directing the student to available resources. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure. Students experiencing economic, social, and emotional barriers need to be aware of the resource or how to access available resources.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

This piece from Gallup , for instance, argues that 70 percent of the change initiatives undertaken by organizations in Singapore were “doomed to failure.” Several of the ideas championed by the iZone, including blended learning and design thinking, have become regular features of NYC schools.

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Blended Learning Failure Science Evaluation 72

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Two times zones over, Knikole Taylor is a blended learning specialist in a Dallas, Texas suburban school district, where she supports Pre-K to 12th-grade teachers and students with all things digital teaching and learning. It also exposes children to tools and other things they might not necessarily get once they leave school.

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Failure Blended Learning Testing Elementary School 107

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

After identifying the barrier to learning, the faculty mentor assists in directing the student to available resources. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure. Students experiencing economic, social, and emotional barriers need to be aware of the resource or how to access available resources.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

There are too many generalizations—online and blended learning isn't a single entity. Messy Sin: Conflicts, challenging opinions, scrappiness, sweat and complete failures are all part what makes innovation, well, innovation. We must be able to skillfully read the research.”

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Online Learning Failure Culture Learning 159

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As the blended learning coordinator for the Notre Dame ACE Academies , a multi-state network of Catholic schools serving some of the nation’s most underserved students, I understand, and absolutely believe in, the importance of measuring the success of educational initiatives with academic achievement.

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Achievement Failure Blended Learning Evaluation 124