Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. In the book, she discusses the best way to teach Black children. Gloria Ladson Billings published a book titled “ The Dreamkeepers.”

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Culture Failure Students Beliefs 190

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy. When we were signing up people we realized we didn’t have a lot of people signing up for the cultural awareness session,” explained Karla Vigil, the Educational Strategies Specialist for the Highlander Institute.

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Blended Learning Culture Technology Learning 105

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Learning is often a social process, taking place through dialogue, discussion and other forms of interpersonal interaction. Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Design online discussions around experiences (games, virtual trips, etc.

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 139

Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. Communication styles can stereotypically differ between culture groups, genders, and generationally. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. Our culture is what allows us to work together, grow friendships and feel safe sharing our individuality and ideas. That’s where the culture club’s focus on vulnerability comes into play.

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Failure Feedback Culture Students 304

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Failure also motivates me. In my classroom, I try to build a culture of honesty, respect, and persistence. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. If you’re honest, respectful, and you're persistent—if you risk failure—you’re really able to motivate each other to do amazing things.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Learn culture, not language ” might seem like advice for the future, especially since wearable tech is increasingly capable of doing our linguistic heavy lifting. You own your successes and your failures. It requires bravery in the face of repeated embarrassment and failure. Language learning gives you power.

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Languages Language Failure English 158

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

The thing is, I really wanted to contribute to class discussions. To this day, when I want to contribute to a discussion, raising my hand makes my heart beat a bit faster. For example, I was recently in a faculty meeting, and I was eager to contribute to the discussion. I just didn’t always know how to.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Gameful Learning Lab is one of three, large-scale labs supported under a new enterprise at the university called Academic Innovation , currently made up of 66 initiatives “charged with developing a culture of innovation in learning” that can bring about “personalized, engaged and lifelong” learning experiences. Gameful Design.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tie-ins: Use this not only for holidays but any academic class by creating an artistic image of the topic being discussed. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 172

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice (3rd ed.).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

In my latest book, “ Coding as a Playground ,” I discuss how playpens keep children safe, but they also keep them isolated. If they’re programming their robot to dance, they may all choose dances from around the world, but each students’ might be from a different culture. Take KIBO , a robot kit I developed, for example.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I do not hold to the essentialist thinking that puts teachers into categories of “will participate in professional development” and “will not participate in professional development,” but rather, I follow the context principle as discussed in Todd Rose’s “The End of Average.” Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: Use this not only for holidays but any academic class by creating an artistic image of the topic being discussed. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture.

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Activities Learning Failure Attention 174

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

But we can use the cultural relevance of games to blend their physical and virtual learning opportunities in ways that will empower students. The book “ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ” discusses how entering “flow” states makes us more productive. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Recently, we discussed creating a common vision for a school model that meets the needs of the whole learner and mentioned that we'd be tackling this very problem at Fusion 2018 in October. With that hard work behind us, it’s now time to consider how best to implement your vision. Implementation. Research & Evidence.

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Gamification Learning Students Learning Disabilities 138

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

What are they there to discuss? I know we teach that failure should be embraced, because that way, you uncover more successes… Sometimes in those failures, you reveal your biggest triumphs, too. How do you bounce back from a failure and don't get less confident or you don't feel that you can't move on from that?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The whole idea of student-centered, personalized learning may seem like a long and daunting task—and perhaps it is—but there is one small step that can lay the groundwork for a culture of generativity. This reframes failure as an opportunity to learn and builds a culture of being willing to try and fail.

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Schools Culture Failure Teaching Methods 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.

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Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. Did we have failures? Students are circled around the Collaboration Board to share their thoughts on a discussion topic using sticky notes and texts. Absolutely.

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 195

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. Culturally responsive teaching: Theory, research, and practice (3rd ed.).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

After reading and discussing it, we created our own version of the model pioneered at ASB called the Keala`ula (“the shining path”) Innovations Institute. And we made ample use of social media technology to have meaningful learning discussions asynchronously. But they would also receive regular, personalized attention from a coach.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Failure 160

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Even more, it felt odd to listen to discussions about faculty use of OER and barriers against adoption in the classroom without a strong faculty presence in the room. A faculty member like me, who is non- tenure or holds a teaching-intensive role, might have an easier time to participate in critical open education discussions.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. Provide students with the opportunity to discuss through student-led literature circles. Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. The discussion in schools this year will focus on teaching students how to do this work.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

One of the major challenges international students faces is adapting to a new educational system and culture while striving to integrate seamlessly into their new environment. While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. The United States (U.S.)

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 97

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Listen to highlights of the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. McGuire: The kinds of things that are being discussed [around using OER] are hard for many of institutions to access. Each of us are making decisions about where we are okay with failure happening. That’s what really excites me.

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Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 146

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In English courses, making curricula and instruction more culturally relevant to diverse students is a relatively “straightforward” task, Rodriguez says, whereas in math, “the traditional lecture-based approach where students practice problems and take tests and sit in lectures is the standard.

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Exams English Math Instructors 176

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

One of the major challenges international students faces is adapting to a new educational system and culture while striving to integrate seamlessly into their new environment. While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. The United States (U.S.)

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The truth is, when it comes to navigating the interpersonal conflicts that tend to arise in schools—shaped by trauma, cultural and racial tensions, and broken trust—there is no quick fix or 1-2-3 protocol to follow. I felt like a failure. In my experience, this approach works, until it doesn’t.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 164

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

We discussed the idea that the global innovation economy is pushing the skill sets of creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving much deeper into the labor pool than ever before. A couple of months ago I keynoted a STEM conference in Syracuse, New York.

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Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Technology tools populate like bacteria in a culture. Her/his success doesn’t come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a 21st century classroom. Discuss this, then expect them to do so when they have a problem. Truth, that will never happen.

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Teachers Failure Learning Styles Lecturing 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Tie-ins: Use this not only for holidays but any academic class by creating an artistic image of the topic being discussed. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While evidence is crucial, it’s not the only factor that can influence the success or failure of a new product or program. Are there any structural, cultural or environmental factors that might limit some members’ access to a new product or limit its effectiveness for the community as a whole? Does It Really Meet Your Needs?

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Evaluation Failure Science Reading 158

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

And what BCPS itself learned along the way was that to be truly helpful to other educators, sharing out that both the triumphs and the failures must be continual, authentic and transparent. And that courage to let different parties share their accounts, both the struggles and successes, has been key to BCPS’s sharing culture.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 130

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

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Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 119