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

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. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. Not yet convinced?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. It’s called “ Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty.” What are some tips based on your experiences, some ways to avoid flipped failure?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s Success Academy, set the tone for this year’s NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some “unpopular perspectives” on edtech. Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We know how important it is for kids academically and socio-emotionally. But we have to be safe. And the truth of the matter is the country hasn’t done the things necessary to make it safe in many places.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Verizon has committed over $3 billion to help schools pay for technology, hoping “to leave no student behind.” Namely, many people think access to technology simply boils down to whether students have a working device and a reliable internet connection. Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S.

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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

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

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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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. Let’s be clear: this is a big red flag that this school is just pretending at technology integration and coaching. This is a failure of leadership.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Key points: It’s key to remember that AI isn’t foolproof—it can make mistakes Equity, transparency, and effectiveness should be goals when using AI in education See related article: More students are seeking an AI-powered school year The November 2022 release of ChatGTP by OpenAI was an inflection point for AI technology.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

No one sends a press release when a school decides that a technology it once raved about has failed—or outlived its usefulness. That was the focus of a session at the annual meeting this week of WCET , which brought together hundreds of college-technology leaders. Faculty resistance to phasing out.

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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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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

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.” Sometimes people think about computer science just as technology, and there’s something magical behind a curtain,” Ebert says. It’s something that everyone can participate in.”

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure. Recognizing and addressing these fears is crucial in smoothly navigating a major shift in education.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

And because of exponential technologies (the essential bits inside your tech that get smaller, faster, cheaper and more powerful at an exponential rate) the changes in the coming decade will be even more unfathomable than those which redefined the previous decade. billion strong. Change your lens.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Preparing Students for the Future Some school districts have welcomed and embraced the changes artificial intelligence offer as a tool for instruction, instructional differentiation, and mundane work tasks which can be dramatically enhanced through AI technology.

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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

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 15, 2021

First, a recap: In 2019, AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup that simultaneously developed a network of “microschools” in tandem with educational software, sold the schools to Higher Ground Education , an operator of Montessori schools, services and learning centers.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The tragic irony at the crux of this debate is that much of the actual waste in education stems from districts being afraid to spend money or limited by misplaced accusations of malfeasance. The perpetuity of public education is not a foregone conclusion.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

A quarter of a century ago, when I helped launch a number of online master’s degrees at Stevens Institute of Technology, an engineering school in Hoboken, NJ, we didn’t employ instructional designers or videographers. Ironically, colleges that invested early, when so many were hesitant, were able to build courses and programs at lower cost.

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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

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 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

JUNE 17, 2021

The development and widespread adoption of new technologies—VHS tapes and DVD discs- empowered consumers. Our colleges have certainly had to adapt to changes caused by digital technology, but they have as yet been spared the level of dramatic disruption seen in other sectors. A considerable number are public.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Hull and fellow teacher, Pete Helfers, started to develop Otus with cofounder Andy Bluhm after establishing a 1:1 computing program and noticing how much time teachers had to spend on technology, instead of teaching. And Chris himself was named one of the National School Boards Association's 2016 20 to Watch educators.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program at the high school in their small Kansas town. They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it. I'll just rebuild it.

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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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