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? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

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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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

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. The industry should drive these skill-based programs, not the other way around.

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Failure Education Language Languages 149

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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Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 189

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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Failure Language Languages Elementary School 132

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. Process feedback is vital in enhancing student learning by honing their metacognitive skills , guiding their efforts, boosting motivation, and fostering a growth mindset.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The game had given them a reason and a context, not only for using English, but also for activating 21st-century skills. Here are six examples of higher-order thinking skills my students developed while creating and playing games: 1. The novices raise their skills very quickly, uncovering ideas even the experts didn’t know.

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Language Languages Skills English 166

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

The skills that K-12 and higher education students should know. Are students gaining the skills that one might need to eventually apply to one of those tech giants, if they chose to do so? Are students gaining the skills that one might need to eventually apply to one of those tech giants, if they chose to do so?

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Skills Failure Writing Culture 162

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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Education Intelligence Failure Feedback 331

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The school district plans for AI implementation often emphasize key characteristics like creativity, critical thinking, resilience, and social intelligence. Preparing for AI-Driven Careers As AI continues to transform various professional fields, it’s important to integrate AI awareness and skills into career pathways programs.

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Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 222

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. The importance of identifying and instructing students at any grade who cannot reach fluency and comprehension because of gaps in foundational skills cannot be overstated.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

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. It’s not a stressful event, rather viewed as a life skill.

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Critical Thinking Textbooks Gamification Knowledge 163

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2021

Logical Thinking. Thinking Skills–Riddles. 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. Learning Styles inventories –several. VARK Questionnaire –how do you best learn? Kodu—game programming. Miscellaneous.

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Failure Learning Styles Learning Curriculum 167

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Early math skills are associated with higher literacy and higher earnings. That has consequences.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The larger goal was to teach our students something about the jobs of today and tomorrow and the skills they might need to get there. Our school recognizes that tangible, hands-on learning experiences featuring self-discovery and critical thinking is the key to effective instruction—as the school’s foundress, St.

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Failure Students Critical Thinking Participation 156

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

When I first wrote these teaching maps, they concentrated on aligning with standards and ticking off required skills. This includes knowing how to speak and listen to a group , how to think independently, and how to solve problems. Lesson plans must reflect those skills. Collaboration and sharing is treated as a learned skill.

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Failure Gamification Textbooks Knowledge 130

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. With your knowledge and teaching skills, you’ll understand the directions and how they connect to the bigger picture. Don’t expect to be perfect.

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Technology Teachers Critical Thinking Failure 167

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

Every field will hire employees with strong digital skills, and this trend will only continue to accelerate. The real skill that guarantees you a job in the technological world is knowing how to learn these skills. The entrepreneurial mindset is a way of thinking that informs the way in which you problem solve.

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Learning Language Languages Science 168

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’ve defined it as using your skill set to encounter new and complex situations. I replied that I didn’t think a dollar was too much to ask for a candy bar.

Education 167

Education Critical Thinking Elementary School Elementary School 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.”

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Students also need a rich set of social and cognitive skills that span beyond any given discipline. 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.

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History Critical Thinking Learning Interdisciplinary 138

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Thanks in large part to modern standards, this model remains today, with curriculum that is a mile wide and an inch deep—and plenty of critics. Project management and rapid prototyping dominates business and many of our most-sought after jobs require collaboration and multidisciplinary, higher-order thinking. THIS IS THE RIGHT WORK.

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Multidisciplinary Schools Failure Evaluation 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Even a game like Candy Crush is hitting some of these skills.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

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.

Failure 133

Failure Schools Social Studies Elementary School 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2025

DIY projects also improve motor skills. Kids learn to embrace mistakes as part of the process, understanding that failure can lead to new ideas. Its a valuable life skill thats often overlooked. This builds resilience and critical thinking. Engineers often rely on creative thinking to solve complex problems.

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Art STEM Math Critical Thinking 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Game playing develops reading skills. 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.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks.

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Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 140

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.

Science 133

Science Technology STEM Failure 133

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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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Greg Beutler is the Director of Techscool.org , a school devoted to teaching kids this fundamental skill through the lens of robotics, coding, competitions, and more. The act of writing a computer program requires you to think about how to create sequences which are step by step procedures on how to solve a given problem.

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Science Learning Students Critical Thinking 123

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.”

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Thinking Games Time required: Optional Pre-holiday school days are great for supporting school goals surrounding Habits of Mind, problem-solving, and critical thinking with websites that focus on those skills.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Educate Yourself on Coding Even if you understand coding, teaching it requires a deeper understanding, and it never hurts to brush up on your skills. Troubleshooting failure is one of the biggest things coders focus on, but kids might find this leads to frustration. That does not mean your student should have to teach themselves.

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Teaching Learning Styles Language Languages 143

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Pre-holiday school days are great for supporting school goals surrounding Habits of Mind, problem-solving, and critical thinking with websites that focus on those skills. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The school district plans for AI implementation often emphasize key characteristics like creativity, critical thinking, resilience, and social intelligence. Preparing for AI-Driven Careers As AI continues to transform various professional fields, it’s important to integrate AI awareness and skills into career pathways programs.

Intelligence 130

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 130

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Recognizing how prompts influence AI outputs is a crucial skill that was previously underdeveloped in many students. Moving forward, this skill will be vital as they navigate the intersection of human creativity and AI assistance. Think of failures as learning opportunities. Frontiers in public health , 11 , 1287532.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 99