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

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my students informed me, running over after their latest test. “Is 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.

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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“I kind of felt like there were these little cracks in the edifice every now and then where I would give just these great lecture courses, [and] I’d have students who were engaged, you could see it in their eyes. After a while the professor concluded that the problem wasn’t the students. They seemed to be engaged. No problems.

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Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health

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Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. When I was a kid, I convinced myself that I hated avocados,” Gethard remembered the student saying. He remembered one who identified as a fruit.

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

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So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. The sad reality is we give the least to the students who need the most. We give low-income students and students of color less access to early childhood education, less access to resources in K-12.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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As edtech moves into the developing world, there are new challenges when attempting to reach students in the lowest economic rungs. Yet these difficulties have not deterred efforts from gritty entrepreneurs to improve educational opportunities through technology. 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?

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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.