Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. The familiar narrative—that schools today are outdated and in need of an overhaul—has also been shared by the likes of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and education reform leaders. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. 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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

I also had teachers who built relationships with us as students, held us to high expectations, and built a joy for learning. 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. As school leaders, we go through this.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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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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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Once in a generation an innovation comes forward which has the potential to revolutionize education. With the evolution of personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s traditional classroom instruction was transformed and computers are now an integral part of all learning environments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Students go from “I’m not smart” to “I just haven’t learned that.yet.” Enter research.

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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. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” I think there’s a real art to that.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. So, that’s what I did.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers in three North Carolina counties report their students, who are trying to close math learning gaps caused by COVID-related school disruptions, are making progress thanks to an innovative digital learning platform. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

To prepare for this reality, there are a growing number of learn-to-code organizations exposing students as young as Kindergarten to computer science education. The real skill that guarantees you a job in the technological world is knowing how to learn these skills. Make no mistake, I am still all about learning to code.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And that desire for change drew Vallon to Quest to Learn , a public 6-12 school in New York City focused on game-based learning. For 10 years, she's been part of a group of educators and staff using game-based learning to teach students how to think critically and creatively, analyze systems and ask thoughtful questions.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray.

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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. I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads. And in a way, this does make sense.

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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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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

Looking to a Tech-Driven Future The report makes a case for computer science as part of the solution for pandemic-related learning loss, touting its high level of engagement. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Open-ed people, personalized-learning people, and the learning-analytics people, they don’t talk to each other that much.” He made the remarks during a session this week at the annual conference of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, where he announced the project. We still have tribes,” he said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Scaling personalized learning across a state might sound like an oxymoron, but officials from Rhode Island’s Office of Innovation are taking on the task. The Statewide Personalized Learning Initiative just released a white paper that could inspire others to create and align the pieces necessary for expansive personalized learning efforts. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

It focuses heavily on rapid prototype solutions and learning from mistakes. In education, a design thinking curriculum immerses students and teachers (i.e., Assessing Student Work Identifying and implementing quality assessment tools is a constant challenge for educators and assessing design thinking work is no different.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn, the US-headquartered learning company began 2021 on a high note raising $18 million in Series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. SplashLearn is a game-based learning program that intelligently adapts to each child’s learning ability and helps them master skills at their own pace. About SplashLearn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

At Edmentum , we believe that growth mindset goes hand in hand with personalized learning, an increasingly popular approach that aims to put students in control of their own learning. We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning. So, how exactly does personalized learning fit into the equation?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

As someone who has dedicated her career to helping educators leverage online and blended learning to transform their classrooms, this pandemic has certainly provided an opportunity to do the work I love most. This is not what online and blended learning should look like. Let’s be honest, though. Change is scary.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. 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.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Learning was sorted into disconnected subjects and compartmentalized by grades and age groups, with students sent along the proverbial conveyor belt of learning. Instead teachers participate in project-based learning at the same time as the student. Why it works It comes down to how students approach learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

public schools and learning what it means to be a student. Originally inspired by the efficiency of factories and certainty of science, the mass education movement largely sought to standardize and sterilize schools nationwide. They will be joining the other 47 million students already in U.S. Change your lens.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. Technology is changing the way almost all industries work beyond recognition. Technology itself is changing rapidly, and so too are the accompanying necessary skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Why is game-based learning so relevant for students today?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. And that is one of the learning objectives: that we know very little about other places.” He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film about him. EdSurge: What makes your classes popular?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

My proactive nature, my work as a peer observer and my facilitation of a professional learning community at our school is part of what opened up the opportunity to move into an administrator role. Even with these strengths, my learning curve was steep. Me in my final year as a teacher, just before becoming an administrator.

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