eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When students become interested in STEM at a young age, their critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills have a chance to thrive. Early STEM exposure–and successes or failures in STEM learning–can often make or break a child’s willingness to participate in STEM learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Best of all, it’s great for fostering students’ critical thinking, curiosity, and confidence. This hack is great for promoting independent thinking and increases classroom participation! Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

Education—good education—builds patterning skills through an ongoing set of master-apprentice experiences, and implicit in the patterning is the critical thinking about the pattern selection, use, and most importantly, adaptation. Design students should be learning ways to think about solving problems.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process. It lays a strong foundation, fosters curiosity and critical thinking, equips students with the skills necessary for success in the ever-changing job market, and addresses gender disparities.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. In addition, it cultivates critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills – all of which are essential for lifelong learning and success beyond school.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most challenging parts of creativity is resisting the impulse to give up when you meet failure or criticism of your ideas, which students commonly face at school when working on group projects or receiving grades.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. This tool serves as a catalyst for critical thinking, enabling students to extract maximum value from the feedback they receive.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Students will need digital citizenship skills—along with traditional soft skills like critical thinking—to critique the output of these systems.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. Failure is a learning tool. Critical thinking Education reform Lesson plans play'

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? Additionally, Arum has said that the school is adept at building soft skills, such as design thinking, along with collaboration and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Odeum is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to bring to the market a collection of customizable 3D immersive role-playing games built around K-12 curriculum to enhance students’ learning experience and develop critical thinking and empathy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2021

Logical Thinking. Bubbl.us– simple to use and free, no log-in, a bit quirky (IMHO). MindMeister –free trial for education. Scapple- -downloaded tool. Spicy Nodes. SpiderScribe– add text, pictures, files, more; free sign-up, fee for more than 3. The Crossing –attempts to cross a gorge; some fail; all result in success.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The school district plans for AI implementation often emphasize key characteristics like creativity, critical thinking, resilience, and social intelligence. Building an AI-Ready Team A key step in AI integration is the formation of an AI task force or committee.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

For example, spreadsheets should teach critical thinking and data analysis, not Excel or Sheets. Failure is a learning tool. In life, failure happens. Those who thrive know how to recover from failure and continue. Lesson plans must reflect those skills. Conflate ‘knowing’ with ‘understanding’.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

On Critical Thinking in Action If you have something of quality, it will spread like a virus We talk about critical thinking, but what does that actually mean? I replied that I didn’t think a dollar was too much to ask for a candy bar. We need to get people out in the field and get them thinking in new ways.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Our school recognizes that tangible, hands-on learning experiences featuring self-discovery and critical thinking is the key to effective instruction A New Kind of Business Plan In the spring of 2015, my school looked into a new type of class to address a term that every school features prominently on their website: “21st-century education.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

A lot of learning happens through failure. They must think I get a daily upload of all tech information that I can access as needed, or that I absorb technology by osmosis. Computer skills Critical thinking Education reform Teaching' Don’t expect to be perfect. Embrace mistakes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. But surprisingly, the most notable failure was in graduate programs, which performed far worse than their undergraduate counterparts, even though they are preparing prospective teachers for the same job.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

During Lawrence’s project, which introduces programmable logic control (PLC) through a simulation of predictive failure, students gather vibration data using a Vernier accelerometer attached to a small electric motor and set an alarm using the Vernier Digital Control Unit.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." What stood out was that our middle and high school students achieved significant growth in 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and communication. We're focused on those game-learning principles.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The narrative-driven math game engages students and teams in collaboration, creativity and deep critical thinking as they work to construct expressions, build equations and apply fundamental algebraic logic, all within the adaptive context of the game.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

In the life of our schools, we have seen the powerful way that our students through project-based learning have embraced deeper learning outcomes, and exhibited the habits of effective critical thinking, collaboration, and personal character. Communicate your Results Just like any experiment, your results shouldn’t live in a vacuum.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Please note, these projects are designed to foster failure as an intended process. The learning occurs in the reflection and analysis of each failure and then is fueled by the next attempt. THIS IS THE RIGHT WORK. This is what school was always supposed to do—engage students in learning and prepare them for life.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

I want to see their creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving in action. This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. Make failure fun. Discuss why you collaborated with others in surviving this world. What did they add to your success? Align goals with learning.

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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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. With my fourth graders, I routinely used a popular game called Oregon Trail to teach not only westward expansion but about the problem solving and critical thinking employed by many early Americans. I had a 4th grader once.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Henry Ford said: “Thinking is the hardest work in the world, which is why so few engage in it.” Don’t let the ‘fear of failure’ stop you from trying. As Thomas Edison said: “I have not failed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Trisha Quan: Having critical thinking around what you're doing and where it is that you want to go is something I think is really important. Drea Alphonso: To add to that, I think with problem solving, there also comes this notion of resiliency. I see a lot of engineers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical. Teachers’ approach will align with brain-based learning principles , fostering deep understanding and critical thinking.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

The entrepreneurial mindset is a way of thinking that informs the way in which you problem solve. This mindset focuses on facing a challenge, daring greatly, learning from failure and trying again. The goal is to innovate—to come up with wild ideas and then try them. Through this mindset you experience growth, rapidly.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

“We have divided mathematics, Chinese, English and physics learning into a large number of abilities, and we hope to help students not only to improve grades but also cultivate their inquiry, critical thinking and other skills through our innovative Modes of Thinking, Capacity, and Methods (MCM) model.”

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Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

Failure is a critical part of learning; just go back to the previous step and ‘help’ them again. Analogy Booklet Read Toggle child menu Expand Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Search To create confidence in students, you have to show them that you trust them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

For instance, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving are difficult to assess with a standardized test. ’ That’s an indictment of our failure to differently imagine learning and teaching. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2025

Kids learn to embrace mistakes as part of the process, understanding that failure can lead to new ideas. This builds resilience and critical thinking. Its about opening doors to new ways of thinking. These projects encourage creativity, critical thinking, and a love for discovery. Encourage experimentation.

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