Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

” typically starts with… It depends… To try to understand this topic in a five-minute blog post or thirty-minute webinar is a prescription for failure. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

A gamification system–if well-designed–offers the ability to make transparent not just success and failure, accolades and demerits, but every single step in the learning process that the gamification designer chooses to highlight.

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k12 Prospects

JUNE 13, 2025

Alignment with Educational Goals and Standards Schools prioritize solutions that align with curriculum requirements, state standards, and instructional priorities. Failure to meet these requirements can result in rejection, regardless of a product’s quality.

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases. They often have trouble understanding unspoken rules and the point of a lot of less direct ways of speaking such as euphemisms.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." To be honest, when they talk about what they do to and with the children in the name of moving them through "the curriculum," I'm struck by a kind of despair.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The success or failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs. Or not occurring.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. The teacher won’t be surprised by a failure or a question they can’t answer. Revise your mindset.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. On Inclusive Curriculum The national conversation around that is also an opportunity to rethink teaching and learning, to say: Students should have windows and mirrors in their learning experience. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grades from individual classes then get averaged together, semester by semester, into GPAs that permanently carry the marks of any prior failures and shortcomings in a students’ learning. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from. The outcome?

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

A design curriculum needs to provide students with enough discrete experiences that they can start to build muscle memory around problems—so they can start to say to themselves, “I’ve previously experienced a problem that was kind of like this, and I tried to solve it.” A pattern is not a template. It’s a way to approach solving a problem.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The educators began stretching their existing abilities, thriving on challenges and seeing failures as a heartening springboard for growth and getting back to find solutions. The curriculum and the methodology needed a change, and we were sure to bring about that positive change.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA), often equated with Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM), is any form of assessment that measures progress toward fulfillment of a stated curriculum. CBAs are typically designed by the educator but in some cases are available for download from the curriculum provider for free or fee.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We can’t test students on their innovation, but we can encourage them to explore new concepts, look at challenges from all sides, and embrace failures as opportunities to try again with more knowledge. Innovation is more than a buzzword today—it’s something educators strive for in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Across the globe, teachers are continually asked to integrate technology into their curriculums to keep up with future-ready skills and in turn they complain that they need more professional development. Forcing it through the curriculum. Squeezing tech-based PD whenever you can. The use of technology always brings about change.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I started building an esports curriculum and, every time, I got shot down, I would add an element to the curriculum addressing the reasons I was told we couldn’t have a team. Another common roadblock I faced was the idea that video games make young people antisocial. That’s not true, either. Kids love socializing through video games.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Next, Keith explored how engineering curriculum design parameters, as codified by Dr. Christine Cunningham, EiE founding director at Museum of Science, Boston, can be adapted for early education. Keith calls it a creative process, on in which even the youngest students can engage in problem solving and asking themselves, “What if?”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. As for high school and adult-level titles, many of the books that students are reading are required as part of the curriculum including classics like The Catcher in the Rye , Of Mice and Men , and A Raisin in the Sun.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

While this failure felt terrible at the time, it ended up being the driving force behind the creation of a new high school transition program for students with mild to moderate disabilities. Article: Dr. John Collins on His New ONEder Curriculum! He returned home after just one semester at college. Article: Michael B.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. How could we embed these skills into our classes without falling further behind in our curriculum? And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

Some of the curriculum materials we purchased had not yet been delivered. 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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They see the bigger picture and nicely bridge the tech and curriculum sides of the discussion. The continuing failure to meet the needs of a growing number of students will demand different approaches and practices taught in Colleges of Education. I see Project Unicorn possibly filling this role.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We were therefore thrilled that Google was interested in learning the answers to these questions, and in particular that they understood the study required speaking directly with the district and school leaders, curriculum and instruction specialists, and teachers at the forefront of the use of technology in schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Thanks to the Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Grant from the Massachusetts teachers early childhood program, the center was able to buy the KIBO curriculum and various attachments for deeper exploration as well. I told the class, “It doesn’t have to be completely successful. Let’s just give it a try and see what happens.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This mindset shapes how we view data.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, many district technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. “If it’s edtech, it must be good,” used to be the mantra in schools.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. Though prevalent, it can also be silent in that it is not always a visible or known quantity.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Its curriculum covers pre-kindergarten through grade 5 for math and reading. With a strong focus on engagement and efficacy, it has over 4,000+ curriculum-aligned games and activities, designed to create an exciting learning experience for kids. About SplashLearn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. How could we embed these skills into our classes without falling further behind in our curriculum? And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

In education, a design thinking curriculum immerses students and teachers (i.e., Understanding how to articulate mastery and growth as it relates to a design thinking curriculum can be a struggle. To address this, some teachers have utilized pacing guides to help stay on track with curriculum frameworks. the end users).

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Challenge curriculum and edtech providers to be purposeful in design. Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback. School leaders face no shortage of edtech purchasing options.

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