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

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks.

Critical Thinking 140

Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 140

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

give as little policy attention as possible to the known educational needs of students who live in poverty or don’t speak English as their primary language (and thus struggle academically), even as those student and family populations increase markedly within the state.

Failure 89

Failure Education English STEM 89

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

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

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. About a quarter of the kindergarten through second grade students she tutors in dual language programs in English and Spanish.

Reading 191

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.

Skills 128

Skills Secondary Education Students Knowledge 128