Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems. Yet the results revealed that devices, by themselves, have a limited impact, at best, on learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win. Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Is Amazon a sleeping giant of edtech? But now I can definitively answer yes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

Over the last decade, as a rejection to a tired model of traditional higher education, new educational programs and structures have emerged. Editor’s note: This article has been edited from the original post, “ Teach Slower to Teach Better ” and republished with permission.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Department of Education has researched and published an excellent National Education Technology Plan.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

One thing many of the innovators in the room seemed to agree on was that educators needed freedom to take more risks, make mistakes and sometimes even fail. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate. We are leading the nation in edtech firm acquisitions.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

In addition to the classic uses of IT, other areas of educational technology are becoming increasingly important at a rapid pace. Course materials and books are online, classes meet through web portals, and non-IT systems like building control and laboratory technology are beginning to shift to the IT department.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Our goal at every step was to let educators tell their stories, be honest about the challenges and failures, and celebrate the successes in the vein of highlighting these wonderful schools and providing guidance as schools continue down the digital path. “Education technology is a tool, not a strategy.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

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. The reason failure feels so hard for me to accept in this work is because of how important and personal it is. My colleague was supportive and understanding.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says. And the online gradebooks that instantly alert family members to any low grade have made the downsides of letter grades even worse, he argues.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And like so many technologies before it, companies are now in a rush to find ways to monetize and adopt AI, applying the technology to customer service, law enforcement, transportation–and education. In fact, this is what the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology recommended back in May.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. In “ Why For-Profit’s Fail in Education ,” which is just out, Jonathan A. Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. We reflect on these failures.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

Moulton's work has centered on psychology, education and cognition. After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. He got to work analyzing the connection between SEL and course failures. The answer?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.” Coding is one of those areas where it's a skill, but it’s also an art,” Ebert says. When you have students who are engaged in the content, they want to learn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Thus reducing their fear of failure, and creating what we like to call fearless learners” said Arpit Jain, CEO and co-founder, SplashLearn. Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the education technology market with over $1.2 About Owl Ventures. billion in assets under management.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The battle for innovations is currently happening on four fronts: Innovation from the outside: Whether you are funding educational technology companies or you are working for one your responsibility is the same. Pivot from streamlining our obsolete system towards new ways to use technology that support the future of learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

And it’s certainly not because we think education can’t get better than it is right now. It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures. It’s not because we don’t want to engage in creative work. Change is scary. That’s a lot of pressure on teachers to not mess this up.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. As teachers, we don’t get trained to think of failure as a positive thing in any way, even though as researchers we know that failure is a part of the learning process.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Namely, many people think access to technology simply boils down to whether students have a working device and a reliable internet connection. K-12 school districts must plan for a variety of costs related to technology integration. billion in educational technology startups , a marked increase from the previous year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? They learned how to learn.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I had immense guilt as a parent and partner and overwhelming feelings of failure — and I felt isolated. Some have expressed that their reputation was damaged or that they developed an inner narrative of failure. When I got home, I was tapped out. It was hard to want to hug my partner or have my new baby crawling all over me.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The report is the work of the COVID Collaborative, a coalition of education, health and economic experts, written by the former directors of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Secretaries of Education, from both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” This week’s episode raises a bigger question: Why does education seem prone to faddism? Fred Keller, the psychologist who devised the method, even set up a center at Georgetown University devoted to the idea, called the Center for Personalized Instruction.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

This summer, six schools in Ashe, Gates and Polk counties are using Alef Education’s mathematics technology tool that helps teachers as they try to help students with their individual learning losses. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In our partnerships, these leaders carefully select education technology tools that leverage the skill sets that individual teachers and teams are developing rather than add another layer of work to busy teacher days. These leaders react to failure with coaching and reflective data analysis rather than negative consequences.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

business of itslearning , a Norwegian educational software developer. The rest are not tied to any specific education technology platform. Downsizing into an education consultancy is certainly not the high-flying vision that Altitude/AltSchool’s founders and investors had envisioned.

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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 engage in short talks that allow for a lot of direct exchanges; we include open and honest failure-sharing sessions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Recognizing their failure to prepare for a digital future—after a year of so-so emergency remote instruction—higher ed leaders are now trying to make up for lost virtual decades by rushing to partner with online program managers (OPMs), commercial vendors who help colleges deliver and market online programs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When Failure Is an Option “I have seen students really focus on the material and engage with one another and not worry as much about a grade because if they fail something they can always make up the points from somewhere else,” Queen explains. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Departmental and school-wide conversations werent about how to inspire students or make learning meaningful, they were about tracking data and avoiding the label of failure. It happens in the quiet persistence of trying again after failure, trusting that small shifts can create lasting change.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Failure also motivates me. 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. And not steal in a bad way. With Otus I have better knowledge of who my students are.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If they are told ‘you're not a failure just because you're behind,’ they have been more likely to try and to focus more on their school,” Burns says. You're not a failure, just because you graduated later than what you thought you were going to graduate when you entered kindergarten.” This can cause depression or defiance.

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