Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

One thing many of the innovators in the room seemed to agree on was that educators needed freedom to take more risks, make mistakes and sometimes even fail. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate. It’s just not possible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Estonia and Finland, whose education systems are often held in high esteem, also placed high. The latest PISA scores are out.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Author and educator Katie White, who’s something of an expert on the creative process, may have a practical solution.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. In “ Why For-Profit’s Fail in Education ,” which is just out, Jonathan A. Even with lots of care, edtech failures will happen.

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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? And by then it’s too late. They learned how to learn.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They will not need to pass multiple choice tests or regurgitate facts to be successful in 2035. 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. Change your lens.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. 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. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. The problem has been that learning science has not embraced as much the science of context.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. In these systems, students are automatically enrolled in algebra — unless they choose to opt out — after they achieve high scores on standard tests. There are some examples of this model in practice now.

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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. Sensing the Future – being open to new ideas, solutions, and processes, and testing them quickly. This requires flexibility in thinking and a willingness to admit mistakes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. And the best teachers also often approach teaching and teaching issues scientifically.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Recognizing their failure to prepare for a digital future—after a year of so-so emergency remote instruction—higher ed leaders are now trying to make up for lost virtual decades by rushing to partner with online program managers (OPMs), commercial vendors who help colleges deliver and market online programs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. Throughout my teaching career, I witnessed the decline of arts education firsthand. But that hasn’t always been the case for me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. The only “test” is whether the thing works. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2016

When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. Schools blame the technology provider for not delivering on promises or not really understanding their challenges. Education technology companies are no exception. Most startups fail.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For educators, this makes for a daunting test. When families are dealing with not having basic necessities, school just isn’t a priority,” says Susanne Terry, coordinator for homeless education services in the San Diego County Office of Education. It’s worse for students who move around a lot, she says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

In fact, 96 percent of leading research institutions are already using Amazon Web Services (AWS), as are 19 of the top 20 best-funded education technology startups. Here are the top five ways that the cloud is changing education today; many of them may surprise you.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New national test scores, released Monday, reveal that the disruption may have been even more severe than already anticipated. Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Being able to provide specific, meaningful feedback about student performance in these learning outcomes came after a lot of failures on my part. A favorite failure occurred while facilitating a wellness event for second graders. Even with them, the tests were still really hard.)

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

5 Highlight Reads from Clever’s Freshman Seminar If you aspire to or currently work in education technology, equip yourself with industry knowledge along with empathy for the teachers and students you hope to impact. Knee: A set of case studies about some of the biggest edtech failures, with amazing lessons for current companies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

The economists found that banning mobile phones helped improve student achievement on standardized test scores , with the biggest gains seen by low-achieving and at-risk students. Here are my thoughts on this… The outcome measure is standardized test score improvement. Three competing visions of educational technology.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

For Southern New Hampshire University, the answer was to create a sandbox—a space where professors and administrators can brainstorm and test new approaches, and where tech startups can pitch their latest tools to college leaders. We do a lot of work with education technology. How does the institution go about it?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model. EdSurge: What technology has actually delivered on its promise?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform. In general, colleges are using many of the same technologies in developmental education as they do to provide instruction and supports for college-level students.

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