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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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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Last July, however, Parida felt an itch to tackle educational needs in her native country, India. My move to India was driven by my desire to see the impact of technology in education in the Indian context,” Parida says. So she packed up and move to Mumbai, where she found work at Zaya. “My In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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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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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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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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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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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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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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Understanding the Limits of Education Technology and Risk Taking in Schools

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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