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7 discoveries from an active learning classroom

eSchool News

Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. Social-emotional learning is a huge part of our learning process. Active learning environments provide a unique level of comfort for students, evident in my classroom.

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4 Practices for Innovative School Leaders

eSchool News

Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Make room for educators to share the innovative practices they’ve tried in the classroom and create outlets for peer coaching and collaborative learning among staff.

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Educators: The lessons we learned in 2016

eSchool News

But when we asked educators where they learned the biggest lessons related to education and technology came, they largely told us it came from the classroom, through everyday interaction, failure, and perseverance among the students they see every day.

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

eSchool News

This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress. How this leads to cheating : When students are under significant stress or pressure, cheating may feel like a way to protect themselves from the potential consequences of failure.

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96 edtech predictions for K12 in 2019

eSchool News

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Here Are Three Types of Administrators Who Drive Achievement—and Two Who Don't

Edsurge

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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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

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. Lesson learned #2: Show up prepared, or you are doomed to fail. The list goes on and on.

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