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SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dan Meyer: That's a great question with a very contested answer. So then, when it comes to the assumptions behind personalized learning, what do you question as the biggest, most potentially damaging assumption? The biggest assumption I question is the degree to which technology replaces the word that sets off alarm bells (“teachers”).

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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 27, 2018

If you’re considering becoming an online ESL teacher, ask yourself the following four questions. Independent teachers will ultimately decide who they want to take on as students; the diversity and size of their potential student pools will be determined by the success or failure of their own advertising campaigns. Where’s the Money?

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Problems take the form of a question such as, “How might we design a classroom habitat for plants and animals to co-exist?” 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. the end users). Is It All Worth It?

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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 then it becomes a question of, ‘Is that what a good parent does?’ ‘Do

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

To break the ice, we started with questions related to their favorite aspects of basketball and what the sport meant to them, fostering a sense of camaraderie and trust within the group. Questions related to confidence and self-esteem were posed, with varying difficulty levels. How did you overcome it?”

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

A company’s closure naturally raises question about the viability of its ideas and business model. That’s the question that many people are asking. Was MissionU a failure or a false start? Nevertheless, its closure prompts questions about whether the program’s income-share agreement tuition model was financially sustainable.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

The unfortunate side effect of the quick-fix, metrics-driven method is that some educational leaders shortsightedly approach complex institutional challenges as though they only need to focus on select students, and the remainder of students will somehow successfully self-advise their way through the institution with minimal assistance.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Could I challenge my insecurities, the expectations of others, and the limits I hadnt yet questioned? Watching her left me questioning if I was cut out for this work. These choices forced me to confront a difficult question: Was I defying unjust systems, complying with them or complicit through silence?

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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? But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Eyler: That is the perennial question. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity.

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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? Was retrieval possible?

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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

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. 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. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I questioned my place inside the school, wondering what role I was really playing in students' lives. Still, the beginning of my teaching career indicated that sometimes you need more than hope to make it in this profession as a person of color and education leader. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

It’s a 6-lesson course that gathers coworkers to discuss trending educational topics and philosophies, and our colleagues have found that it has been helpful in helping them succeed in their roles. One of the sessions is dedicated to examining education standards. With each purchase, schools would collect a cut of the sale.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. Despite facing significant personal challenges that often kept her out of school, she remained resilient.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

The Value of Failure In this kind of classroom, you see a lot of failure, just as you would on the playground. Young students may not be able to write about their projects yet, but they can use technology. At the social level, you see conflicts between kids who both want the same toy.

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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. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 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.

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MARCH 12, 2024

For the study, researchers interviewed 6,015 enrolled students, 5,012 formerly enrolled students who never completed their program and 3,005 adults who never enrolled in higher education. Failure to solve the problem would be a significant loss in economic opportunity for the country, she says. The most important lessons so far?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. It’s clear that, by simply closing the information gap between schools and families and students, we can improve a wide range of education outcomes. Like Siri or Alexa, Mini is becoming a household name.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. There wasn’t a discreet handbook for a global pandemic, the majority were trialing and experimenting as they went. They are nimble, adjustable and ready to move.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

As part of that failure, 80 percent of Lightspan's employees were cut or left due to poor strategy and communication.“Lightspan He and two other education technology executives shared lessons learned from both sides of the table when it came to mergers and acquisitions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” Those questions, along with many others, are explored in “The Amateur Hour,” a new book about the history of college teaching by Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. One that challenges girls to be leaders in fields horribly underrepresented by women, such as business and technology. or “How can you test whether your prices are too low?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Approaching Professional Learning Communities — In Theory What I shared with DuFour was our plan to implement the four critical questions of a PLC, as detailed by Solution Tree , systematically throughout the district. A reduction in the failure rate on their end-of-unit exam from a typical 15 to 20 students to just two.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

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. In a game-based setting, students analyze, ask questions, think critically and foster creativity.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders. As he sees it, the valuation declines aren’t an ill-omen for the sector.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Camhi, Superintendent of Schools, Baldwin School District As someone who has been in education long enough to be considered vintage and to see major pedagogical shifts, I always wonder when the next big change will come. After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sometimes we had an agenda and sometimes it was a virtual open office for teachers to show up and ask questions. In other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?” In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As teachers, we see it every day: Some students are less likely to raise their hand when they have a question or an answer to provide. Some students process more quickly than others, and those who answer questions more slowly may not always have the time needed to form a response. Technology has helped me answer those questions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

Ian Buchanan , shared this quote by Howard Fuller: “As educators of black, brown, and poor children—especially those of us who believe in justice—we must be able to adeptly negotiate moral contradictions.” These questions swirled around my head like leaves blowing in the wind. What was I negotiating?

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APRIL 18, 2018

You cultivate a culture of folks that are really hesitant to fail, and to some extent failure is therefore a scary thing.” A culture where risk isn’t necessarily rewarded, and failure is viewed negatively, makes it more challenging for the organization to try new things to adapt to “changing times,” she adds.

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