eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. Unlike AI tools meant for the general public, I believe it’s imperative that any AI tool offer granular customization over the generated output.

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Quizzes Lecturing Exams Ethics 291

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 8, 2019

We’re so quick to bemoan the lack of ethics in our students. We complain incessantly about their work ethic, their commitment to their classwork and homework, and their failure to find interest or meaning in the learning tasks we put before them. They cheat. They take shortcuts on the work.

Questions 111

Questions Ethics Failure Students 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The business community knows what they want in their employees: work ethic, the ability to communicate and function as a team, flexible thinking, etc. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.” A favorite failure occurred while facilitating a wellness event for second graders.

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Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 161

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006).

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In Mitchell’s keynote at OpenEd, she asked the audience of educators, librarians and other open education enthusiasts to think about their “tolerance for failure” in education. Then what has followed for me, because I’ve been always interested in the ethical questions, is: where do we stop and why do we stop there?

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Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 139

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Day 4: Ethical Use of AI in the Writing Process The fourth day focused on ethical AI usage. Lastly, incorporating intentional AI use into teaching strategies ensures that students not only learn how to use these tools but also understand their limitations and ethical considerations. Think of failures as learning opportunities.

Collaborative Research 108

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 108

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I read an entire book on derailed college presidencies , with dozens of cases of ethical lapses, and found hardly a reference to apologizing. These days, there is frequent talk of teaching students to take risks and be entrepreneurial, and it is important for leaders to show students how to learn and grow from failure.

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Failure Counselling Ethics Communication 191

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. One of the students who just wrapped up my business ethics class, Hannah Clark, really exemplified these opportunities for deeper learning. I have felt like a failure some of the time.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 198

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

Such research, he says, has shown the importance of sending messages when students have academic successes, not just when failure is on the horizon. Colleges must consider the ethics of any big-data project involving students, argued another member of the panel, Ernest Ezeugo, a program associate at New America.

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Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 145

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success Themed Time required: Optional Don’t forget the ever-popular Thanksgiving-themed (..)

Activities 171

Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Day 4: Ethical Use of AI in the Writing Process The fourth day focused on ethical AI usage. Lastly, incorporating intentional AI use into teaching strategies ensures that students not only learn how to use these tools but also understand their limitations and ethical considerations. Think of failures as learning opportunities.

Collaborative Research 91

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 91

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

So it was frustrating at times dealing with girls who were inexperienced, scared and, more than anything, needed to develop a work ethic. I remember coming home in tears thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be a failure. We’re going to go to the competition and they’re just going to be sad and embarrassed.’

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STEM Coaching Failure Ethics 120

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 16, 2015

public shaming through publication of school ‘letter grades’ repeated attempts to institute ‘merit pay’ systems (despite decades of research-proven failure). rollbacks of educators’ collective bargaining rights. elimination of teacher tenure. underfunding of public schools. underfunding of public universities.

Education 111

Education Failure Evaluation Learning Outcomes 111

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JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. The IB Learner Profile includes ‘thinkers’ as those who “exercise initiative in applying thinking skills critically and creatively to recognize and approach complex problems and make reasoned, ethical decisions” Striving for Accuracy.

Critical Thinking 135

Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Figure 1: Screenshot of OpenAI Terms of Use [emphasis as yellow highlight added] Students need opportunities to discuss the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI chatbots. When problem solving followed by instruction works: Evidence for productive failure. These conversations can, and should, start in formal education settings.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Figure 1: Screenshot of OpenAI Terms of Use [emphasis as yellow highlight added] Students need opportunities to discuss the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI chatbots. When problem solving followed by instruction works: Evidence for productive failure. These conversations can, and should, start in formal education settings.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem.

Activities 72

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem. Time required: Optional.

Activities 72

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

At some point the stresses on the system will cause it to break but for now they can continue to push on the edges, knowing that our schools’ eventual failure will occur during someone else’s political cycle. But our ability to make do with less makes it easier for Iowa policymakers to continue to starve our schools.

Questions 111

Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. Bahriye Goren, NYU professor Goren and Israel say their emphasis on caring in teaching did not derive directly from what has come to be known as the ethics of caring , but from their own experience of the needs of students.

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Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We have an ethical responsibility as a community of those committed to the advancement of society through education and transformational resources to promote infrastructure access, digital literacy and skill attainment, all to promote digital equity. What does this mean for educators and education technologists?

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Local Government Internet Education Failure 212

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2022

They penned deeply moving essays that gave us a glimpse inside the experimental successes and failures that defined their careers and courageously reflected on their experiences confronting trauma, teaching inclusive sex education and drawing from Indigenous knowledge.

Education 185

Education Failure Essay Ethics 185

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The great thinkers of our time understand that everyone is capable of finding solutions : “Failure isn’t falling down; it’s not getting up.” The trick is to separate fact from fiction, assess varied viewpoints, and make ethical decisions that are best for all world citizens. ” — Mary Pickford .

Critical Thinking 178

Critical Thinking Teaching Failure Ethics 178

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

In today’s highly polarized environment, Hussain’s framework for thinking about ethics in education seems more relevant and important than ever. But neither’s success depends on the other one's failure. They can celebrate in the other’s successes, lament in the other's failures, because nothing really depends on it.

Fairness 168

Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

There's an ethics to it; you're making choices, and those choices have implications. Our expectation is that we don't have to listen when we pick up a book in print. All of this is wrapped up in my thinking about what it means to be a listening-writer and a reader-who-listens: what it means to listen in print. On the science of listening.

Art 207

Art Science Reading Failure 207

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Activism Reading Club - teamwork and ethical responsibility. His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. Movies Reading Club - empathy and appreciating diversity. Art Reading Club - self motivation.

Failure 142

Failure Motivation History Learning 142

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The great thinkers of our time understand that everyone is capable of finding solutions : “Failure isn’t falling down; it’s not getting up.” The trick is to separate fact from fiction, assess varied viewpoints, and make ethical decisions that are best for all world citizens. ” — Mary Pickford .

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Critical Thinking Teaching Failure Ethics 102

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The failure rate among Hispanic, Black and Native students was higher by more than 10 percentage points. Students are also still redeveloping the work ethic needed to do well in school, Perez says. Among all eighth graders, 33 percent failed to reach basic reading proficiency.

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Reading Skills Language Languages 191

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

College degree programs are better equipped than “narrow technical training” to strengthen human skills like ethical judgment and decision-making and prepare people to encounter future “unscripted problems,” says Pasquerella of the Association of American Colleges & Universities.

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Skills Secondary Education Students Knowledge 126

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

use selective data (say, NAEP scores) to manufacture educational crises that feed your rhetoric of public school failure. pitch tax credits and private/religious school vouchers or ’scholarships’ (‘money that will follow students in their backpacks’) to the general public as natural recourses to the failures of public schools.

Failure 89

Failure Education STEM English 89

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

3: Teamwork between stakeholders is crucial when setting ethical guidelines for students. Any educator recognizes that there are general questions of educational ethics for the everyday—such as, how do we give every student equitable resources? 4: The ideal classroom is full of dialogue and failure—not indoctrination.

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Discussions Ethics Internet Education 33

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Jim Banks, a Republican, described the Education Department as a “total failure” and asked Schwinn exactly how she would approach dismantling it. Her ethics disclosure form describes roles she held with a range of education, lobbying, and consulting firms. Indiana Sen. The department is a building with people in it,” Schwinn said.

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Ethics Education Secondary Education Failure 205