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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

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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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John King: ‘The Failure of National Leadership Is Being Visited Upon School Leaders’

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As another school year begins, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shape Americans’ daily lives—from where they can travel to who they can see and how schools will operate this fall. And for six months and counting, the virus has exposed existing inequities in our society and, in many cases, intensified them, especially in education.

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We used these Google tools in our schools and saw tangible results soar

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Authors’ Note: We’re often asked by educators, “what impact do you see with Google technology in schools?” Last year we engaged Evergreen Education Group on a journey around the world to answer that question. During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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As Director of Growth at Zaya, Parida is learning how developing edtech for low-income India slums is quite different than working with American schools. Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win

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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? Fix the Public First ” by David J.

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The Missing Tech Giant in Education Technology

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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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The Failure of Fast Education

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The point of a design school is not to produce great design artifacts. And even if they did, the economic logistics of running a school means that a one-year program simply has to cost more—a lot more—than a 10-week program. So, there’s the crux of the problem I see with the landscape of non-traditional design education.

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