Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. The feeling would crop up every so often.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it. And if theyre willing to try, we must create situations where they believe they can succeed.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

What puzzled me even more was the stark difference between K-12 education and higher education in this regard. Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. The instructional team can only be effective when everyone agrees on the non-negotiable goals. Schools need to throw out that.

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Technology Failure Learning Lecturing 257

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 291

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. Do I need this?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When I graduated with my master’s degree in education, there was a popular book that urged teachers not to smile for the first days of school. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity. That did not work for me at all. The answer: authenticity.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” What teaching fads have you seen come and go?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

When I graduated with my master’s degree in education, there was a popular book that urged teachers not to smile for the first days of school. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity. That did not work for me at all. The answer: authenticity.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 280

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. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 166

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The earlier indifference to virtual education was largely the result of having moved up academic ranks as part of the pre-digital generation, following the resistance of many faculty who expressed widespread hostility to online teaching as being a poor alternative to classroom instruction. million from 2012 to 2019.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. Education used to be thought of as the 8-2 in a child’s day with maybe an hour or so of homework.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. It’s an inefficiency in the education system, leaving talent on the table, he says, adding: “Doing nothing is going backward.” They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. The native Canadian has five degrees from three countries—a bachelor’s in engineering, master’s in education and business, and doctorates in philosophy and education. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. What Is Course Hero?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Teaching Failure History Lecturing 144

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

What community college students need is access to more flexible, personalized, individually-paced and low-cost programs to succeed — the perfect job for education technology. Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent.

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Lecturing Counselling Failure Textbooks 124

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

That’s the case for Bonni Stachowiak, dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University and host of the long-running Teaching In Higher Education podcast. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

How can faculty meet the many challenges facing higher education? In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. Mentoring framework.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. That’s really the point of education. To me, the most valuable thing in education is the ability to change your mind. What do you think about Lecture Capture.

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Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 141

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Exams English Math Instructors 172

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture.

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eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 141

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 160

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. I was a perfectionist who desperately wanted to please my teachers and parents and to prove myself, but so often I felt like a failure because I didn’t have the answer first. That class was a nightmare for me. I was shy and dreaded speaking up in class.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Culture 168

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. I started by reviewing knowledgeable websites like Benchmark Education. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. I had a 4th grader once.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Part of that success may be attributable to the way games are designed—e.g.,

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Dan White, the co-founder and CEO of Filament Games, an educational video game developer based in Madison, WI, knows from personal experience that kids can get a lot more out of video games than entertainment, sharpened reflexes and enviable manual dexterity. Try Minecraft: Education Edition for free!

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. Many of my students don’t have this mindset. This viewpoint can be debilitating for a learner.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 141

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

The first step for creating a risk-informed adult learner is an environment that facilitates social dialogue between the learner and the lecturer. Creating such an environment is the responsibility of the lecturer who should establish certain parameters for communication. Create a social presence in your class environment.

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Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent.

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