eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication. Research on virtual assessments suggests that having clear and consistent communication about academic honesty and integrity can enhance trust and reduce cheating behaviors.

Academic Integrity 205

Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 205

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy.

Feedback 98

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other. In one lesson, we transformed KIBO into a snowplow by designing a plow for the front of the robot and programming it to clear snow (or cotton balls).

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Teachers spend a lot of time teaching students to work in groups, identifying different roles and practicing how to give feedback on a game or a project in a way that's constructive. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

Game-Based Learning 187

Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 187

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. AllHere’s technology combines these evidence-based strategies with a chatbot that enables an extra layer of personalization and communication that we need more than ever during a time of crisis.

Failure 172

Failure Communication Study Change Management 172

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The goal is to ensure that teachers are comfortable using AI for their own professional purposes, such as lesson planning, generating resources, and providing personalized student feedback. Schools might use a structured approach, such as a stoplight model, to communicate AI expectations for staff and students.

Intelligence 222

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 222

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I became more collaborative as well as a better leader and communicator. At my New Tech high school in Columbus, Indiana , content accounts for 60% of a grade and the other categories (written and oral communication, collaboration, and agency) each garner 10%. I was instantly charged with a new zeal for my work. It’s simple, really.

Grades 165

Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 165

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. Affirm and provide feedback on (but dont grade) baseline evidence so students know that you are aware of and accept their starting point. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Finding the appropriate balance of support for each student requires continuous communication. I hold conferences through synchronous individual online meetings and I have started using asynchronous communication to gather updates on progress and respond to questions.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Take notes and tie feedback into their personal goals or hobbies.” Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Not all community-building occurs in real-time. Jennifer Albat suggested: “Pay attention when students introduce themselves.

Failure 140

Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 140

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? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. They analyze data to identify trends within a market, brainstorm viable solutions and prototype their ideas for feedback, all while keeping the user at the forefront.

Failure 161

Failure Students Critical Thinking Participation 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Pointing to disorder in managerial-administrative tasks and teacher feedback loops, she encouraged edtech leaders to innovate in those areas. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate. We want to contain it.”

Educational Technologies 128

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 128

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Understand your students’ needs: One hardworking educator (and Fusion speaker), Farhat Ahmad , knew that compliance-based data collection, which often shows little regard for student feedback, risks further alienating an already disenfranchised student population.

Failure 135

Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 135

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

Failure 154

Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 154

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

The problem, he says, is what kids are asked to write in schools, like those five-paragraph essays, which emphasize following arbitrary rules instead of finding the most effective ways to communicate their ideas. Instant feedback can be horrible for a piece of writing. That feedback by itself is not helpful.

Writing 167

Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

They play for a sense of challenge (competency), social interaction, consistent feedback and more. Research published in the International Journal of Communication found that teenagers who played games performed better in math, reading, and science. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

Gamification 154

Gamification Learning Culture Students 154

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Establish effective communication channels Effective communication with professors and classmates is vital for success in the college classroom. Establishing open lines of communication ensures that students can seek help, clarify doubts, and actively engage in the learning process.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Establish effective communication channels Effective communication with professors and classmates is vital for success in the college classroom. Establishing open lines of communication ensures that students can seek help, clarify doubts, and actively engage in the learning process.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

They didn’t understand why we were doing it and they weren’t getting any feedback.”. Poor communication about the purpose or impact of the technology caused some faculty to resent the initiative as well. “We Moore-Davis admits one of the biggest failures in the process was leaving out their bottom-line: students.

Counselling 126

Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

However, each failure is a learning experience. That excitement was always communicated around my group very quickly and with a remarkable degree of fluency. They even requested feedback from me and their peers, very keen to root out any grammatical errors. They fail.and fail a great deal.

Language 167

Language Languages Skills English 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

But the mixed-results, coupled with negative qualitative feedback from parents, proved to be too much, and the district decided to call it quits. Communication is Key Still many questions and lessons remain. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? What might have happened if the pilot ran its full course?

Learning 151

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 151

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

But to Pavlov, these failures aren’t necessarily a bad thing. We told TJ [Pavlov], he checked in with the student, and communicated back to us. Douglas believes strong communication between companies and schools is the secret to making the program work. Douglas explains: “This past month, a young girl didn’t show up twice.

Failure 156

Failure Communication High School High School 156

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. In Acumen’s programs, we facilitate weekly “Learning Labs” hosted on Zoom, a video conference platform, where students show up for two hours to discuss case studies and receive feedback from peers. In many MOOCs, students feel like their assignments end up being submitted into a void.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

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? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

After receiving feedback, I decided to create a process of clear financial transparency. We all understood the consequences of failure and how each of us could contribute to our organization’s success. Let them know how, and communicate consistently. Be real, communicate clearly, and share what you need. Let them help.

Education 212

Education Counselling Curriculum Motivation 212

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In this way, community colleges can improve performance in developmental education courses where attrition is the greatest. They must also redesign matriculated students' gateway courses that have unacceptable failure rates. Technology makes possible much more frequent and rapid feedback to students. What should it look like?

Failure 159

Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 159

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Approaches to handle bullying: Enforcing rules around behavior in schools, establishing communications between families and schools, and having open conversations about bullying with children have been shown to decrease bullying. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. One approach is to adjust the tone of communication to be less stern or serious, creating a more welcoming atmosphere for dialogue.

Feedback 97

Feedback Culture Learning Students 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

The inclusive environment that makerspaces provide results in a sense of community for participating students and functions as a safe place for gathering feedback. Perhaps most importantly, there is no wrong way in a makerspace – failure is seen as just another opportunity to learn.

Education 153

Education STEM Failure Participation 153

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. One approach is to adjust the tone of communication to be less stern or serious, creating a more welcoming atmosphere for dialogue.

Feedback 94

Feedback Culture Learning Students 94

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Encourage them to meet the people affected by their solutions and ask for requirements and feedback. We have connected with older students working on engineering projects that are happy to help our middle-schoolers and give them feedback on their designs. Correspondence personalizes the experience for the kids.

Science 112

Science STEM Failure Middle School 112

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Sometimes students do not even read the feedback provided on their graded work, which makes our time spent on evaluation feel like a lost opportunity. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 116

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Sometimes students do not even read the feedback provided on their graded work, which makes our time spent on evaluation feel like a lost opportunity. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 111

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

It should have been communicated better. It should have been communicated better that personalized learning is a pedagogy, a way of instructing children—and not a way to use technology better.” I think a lot of people are scared of letting people know that it didn’t work for them.

Coaching 119

Coaching Education Failure Elementary School 119