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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.

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A Recipe for Student Success

Faculty Focus

Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. Collaboration: Form study groups or seek out peers for discussions and knowledge sharing. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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How an R&D Mindset Brought Teachers and School Leaders Closer Than Ever

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Instead, we relied on activities that were more tailored to participants and helped them collaborate with each other. Teachers liked the fact that they could dive right in and not worry about success or failure—only learning and creativity. But they would also receive regular, personalized attention from a coach.

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A Recipe for Student Success

Faculty Focus

Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. Collaboration: Form study groups or seek out peers for discussions and knowledge sharing. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Flipping Faculty from Guide on the Side to Mentor in the Center

Faculty Focus

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. Create positive collaborative learning environments. Collaborate with students by creating engaging learning activities.

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The benefits of active learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent.

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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.

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