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. AI and other technology have changed how humans think and live. What is meta-creativity?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture? Is engagement kind of a necessary precondition for building culture? And these facets of culture all live in a similar space. and safety in community.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Dylan Arena, VP of Learning Science on my team, recently wrote an op-ed on the evolution of the term where he asserts that a modern understanding of personalized learning requires us to know more about our students and use carefully designed technology to accommodate a wide range of student needs from a holistic lens.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress. This approach reduces the fear of failure and minimizes the need for cheating. Liberman, J.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

New technology tools and school models have emerged, offering educators more options about how to appropriately blend online and face-to-face teaching in the classroom. Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy. It’s something I reflect on.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. SEL will begin to affect school culture from the top-down, bringing about change in adults first and students second. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. About Vernier Software & Technology. Vernier Software & Technology has led the innovation of educational, scientific data-collection technology for 40 years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. My colleague was supportive and understanding. As school leaders, we go through this.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Universities need to set aside time, create processes and, perhaps most importantly, build a culture that allows innovation to flourish. However, the most persistent theme in defining innovation was about what innovation is not—namely, technology. Innovation is NOT = technology,” tweeted Cali Morrison. Great point.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure. This requires not only technological acumen but also psychological insight and emotional resilience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

Engaging Black boys effectively in conversations about emotional wellness requires a deep understanding of their unique experiences and cultural backgrounds. Culturally relevant approaches are essential in supporting their emotional development and fostering a sense of belonging. How did you overcome it?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Of all the classroom subjects technology is poised to change, perhaps none stoke the imagination quite like language learning. In-ear technology promises to make 40 languages comprehensible in approximately two seconds lag time. You own your successes and your failures. Wearables and translators are undoubtedly handy tools.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Hull and fellow teacher, Pete Helfers, started to develop Otus with cofounder Andy Bluhm after establishing a 1:1 computing program and noticing how much time teachers had to spend on technology, instead of teaching. At the time, I was just getting into technology. Failure also motivates me. SIIA CODiE awards.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. That’s a contradiction, considering that professors stress a culture of sharing in their research, says Derek Bruff, director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. “We But there’s no standards.” “It

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

It also helped that I was from the community I was serving, which enabled me to navigate many of the cultural nuances of working in our school. I had immense guilt as a parent and partner and overwhelming feelings of failure — and I felt isolated. Even with these strengths, my learning curve was steep.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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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. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Over my career, I’ve developed a theoretical framework called Positive Technological Development , which lays out six “playground” behaviors that can be promoted when engaging children with new technologies: Content creation; Creativity; Choices of conduct; Communication; Collaboration; and. Community building.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

My recent work on the Hillary for America campaign inspired my current transition to the civic technology space. 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. Trisha Quan: It comes back to growth mindset for me.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. And GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Few places is this more true than EDUCAUSE’s Annual Conference, one of the largest gatherings of higher education and technology leaders. Higher ed innovation is not just technology. Culture eats strategy. Building a truly innovative institution requires careful cultivation and nurturing of that type of culture.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

Brian Kelly, director of the cybersecurity program at Educause, a higher education and technology nonprofit, says the trend has followed other business sectors, and that higher ed has seen an uptick in the number of CPOs over the last two years in particular. We still don’t have good privacy laws,” says Mitrano. “My

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Dr. Don Murphy, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Technology at Hauppauge Public Schools, which serves almost 4,000 students, says his district faced the same struggles as many others. Connect with Teq to make online PD part of your school’s culture. We should just do this!"

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

With the advent of each new technology—like AI, automation, VR/AR, and nanotechnology—comes economic shifts that demand different skills from employees and creates new challenges for both employers and educators. We can’t walk away from technology use—not when it’s a mainstay of students’ daily lives and futures. Source: Classcraft.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. Mirecka-Jakubowska has a contagious passion for learning and urges educators to embrace this new technology. Did we have failures? So, that’s what I did. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

How do we shift from a culture of calling on the student who raises her hand first? How can we shift from a “first is best” culture to one that sends the message that everyone’s voice matters—and that everyone has the potential to excel in the classroom? Technology has helped me answer those questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. It’s not on youth, education or even culture. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mini arrived at the Office of School Culture in Michigan’s Lansing School District in December 2020. The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. She came on board to help us assess our attendance goals and strategies several months into a global pandemic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

But we don’t tend to talk about the ugly details–the challenges, the failures, the frustrations. Students pay the price for our failure to talk about failure. We need to shift the higher ed innovation culture to embrace vulnerability and to reward the courage to talk about why plans go awry.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. We cannot ask teachers to build strong positive relationships with their students without making the effort to do the same among school staff members.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Now, she says, the use of technology in learning has created more of a need to put money behind innovation. You cultivate a culture of folks that are really hesitant to fail, and to some extent failure is therefore a scary thing.” Interviews with ten academic administrators were also included in the report. Evangeline J.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. A particular group of students had rampant cluelessness, underachievement, and a toxic group culture.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Rather, it’s a problem of culture and consistency. “A A big one is culture. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure. That failure and rejection are powerful tools to obtaining success, greatness, and joy. Let's focus on the girls, for a second.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

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