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? This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it!

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 194

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

Math 214

Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. With a library of more than 80,000 culturally relevant, curriculum-aligned audiobooks, our Audiobook Solution has all the books students need to read as well as the ones they will want to read for fun.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. Fear of failure can lead to a lack of creative thought and progress within communities. How Did We Get Here? Recently, I attended a performance at the John F.

Art 218

Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

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. This reference to a “Jap cook” gives me an opening to talk about the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the West.

Beliefs 162

Beliefs Coaching History Attention 162

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. Acknowledging that failure came before success serves as a reminder for students that we all have the potential to be become better.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2023

Failure to do so would have dire consequences, causing widespread economic impact and exacerbating the existing strain on the child care system. Additionally, 40 percent of child care providers are people of color, bringing invaluable perspectives and cultural understanding to their work.

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Failure Fairness History Culture 148

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In an era of online shopping, digital marketing and personalized recommendations, retailers collect data on their prospective customers, deliver targeted marketing messages, recommend products based on purchase histories and other factors, and update product supplies with real-time demand. Each of these barriers is significant on its own.

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Failure Learning History Internet 102

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, in an Ancient History class, students could design social media videos to excite interest in the topics they are studying (see “ Teens Are Going Viral With Theatrical History Lessons on TikTok ”). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For example, in an Ancient History class, students could design social media videos to excite interest in the topics they are studying (see “ Teens Are Going Viral With Theatrical History Lessons on TikTok ”). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Gaming actually celebrates failure rather than punishing it. Gaming culture incorporate a different view of intelligence that says, “Try lots of things, take risks, fail. Gaming actually celebrates failure rather than punishing it. Keep in mind, the best-selling game in history was Sims. And it’s the best-selling game.

Teaching 120

Teaching Game-Based Learning Intelligence Failure 120

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Paucek: We acquired a company out of South Africa called GetSmarter that we thought had remarkable overlap with 2U from both a cultural, a mission, and ultimately serve a product-fit perspective. This could be the single most successful ad in the history of education. And it is, without question, our biggest failure in nine years.

History 99

History Culture Failure Fairness 99

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

K-12 schools house many kinds of valuable student data that appeal to bad actors–everything from personally identifiable information like social security numbers to medical histories. Schools can reduce their risk of data breaches by fostering a culture of cybersecurity best practices among students, parents, educators, and staff.

Schools 338

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Thanksgiving information –history, more.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Minecraft Education Edition: Useful for collaborative projects in history, science, and architecture. Use Cultural References: Explain scientific concepts using elements from popular shows, books, or celebrities that students relate to. It can be baked into how we teach science, math, language, and even history. The result?

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2022

While investments and reform efforts are necessary to address the centuries of neglect Black communities have faced, their failure to change racial disparities illuminates a missing piece. My organization, Facing History and Ourselves, and many others have been doing this necessary work.

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History Teaching Failure Beliefs 154

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? Lots of little kids play around with the boundaries between reality and dreams, reality and make believe, in just the way that philosophers have throughout history. And Rex isn't uncommon. And Rex isn't uncommon.

Teaching Philosophy 218

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2022

It protected health and mental stability and delivered the confidence that you had some control over human failure, at least within your own four walls. The underlying truth that human and natural life must come first, together, has been validated through centuries of history, here and on every other continent. Or, think even bigger.

Teaching 162

Teaching Failure Students Skills 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 194

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Emphasize the Journey Despite the changing educational landscape, there are some learning experiences that remain constant: reading landmark literature to study trailblazing individuals and pivotal moments in history. In fact, whatever you’re already reading in English, science or history may showcase incredible acts of resilience.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 142

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

And while Google vastly improved its scanning technology as the project went along, it wasn’t ultimately able to resolve a persistent cultural challenge: how to balance copyright and fair use and keep everybody—authors, publishers, scholars, librarians—satisfied. That work still lies ahead.

Fairness 167

Fairness History English Internet 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Having said all this, I am willing to stipulate: Tech failure is inevitable.

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Technology Failure Internet Classroom Management 130

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

Deep in the heart of New Orleans, a hotbed of American culture and history, scholars Cornel West and Robert George—or as they call each other, Brother West and Brother Robbie—came together during the ISTE 2022 conference to discuss exactly that. . #1: 4: The ideal classroom is full of dialogue and failure—not indoctrination.

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Discussions Ethics Internet Education 33

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Through it, she and others are encouraging educators to share resources to that could be useful to start conversations on everything from the history of racism to conversational tools to talk about the subject. Anderson, a contributing writer for the Atlantic, introduced the hashtag #CharlottesvilleCurriculum on Twitter last Sunday.

Quizzes 133

Quizzes Failure Students Critical Thinking 133

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2018

Eubanks: Too often, I think, when we talk about technology and how it affects our culture and our politics, we tend to talk about it sort of abstractly, as if it affects everybody the same way, or as if most of the impacts are going to happen sometime in the future. In reality, just a mistake had been made somewhere.

Attention 116

Attention Writing Failure Study 116

k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Boredom as the Gateway to Creativity Lets look at some examples from everyday life and history. Parental Pressure We often feel guilty when our kids are bored, interpreting it as a failure to engage them. Rowling famously conceived the idea for Harry Potter while on a delayed train with nothing to do.

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Evaluation Interdisciplinary Writing 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below). But I am neither a pessimist nor a naysayer.

Educational Technologies 109

Educational Technologies Technology Education Failure 109

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

For one teacher of AP Chinese Language and Culture, that morning changed from confusing to horrifying when a group of white supremacists infiltrated the virtual class, inundating the students and teachers with racist slurs, mocking noises and violent screen images. This stoked existing anti-Asian sentiment throughout the U.S.,

Education 162

Education Culture History English 162

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Sometimes teachers unintentionally set kids up for failure by making assumptions about the prior knowledge and experience they bring into the classroom like presuming that all students grow up in a home with conversation about the political climate in our country, or that they’re all born digital natives with an iPhone in hand.

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Technology Teaching Failure Essay 121