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Let Students Learn From Failure

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Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. Anecdotally assess their daily efforts and let that count as much as a summative exam that judges a point in time.

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School officials sweat as online testing looms next week

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Many said they weren’t really ready and worried the increase in computer-based standardized tests would chew up class time, limit students’ ability to go online for class work, lead to technology failures and hurt students unfamiliar with the tools of online exams.

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?Anticipating and Addressing Challenges With Technology in Developmental Education

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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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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

eSchool News

This predicament is only exacerbated by the recent breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, which are accelerating scientific and mathematic discoveries, leading to rapid changes in every field’s accepted pedagogical and theoretical practices.

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Understanding the Limits of Education Technology and Risk Taking in Schools

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Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. I do not believe it is.

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As States Make It Easier to Become a Teacher, Are They Reducing Barriers or Lowering the Bar?

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He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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Can Kids Grow Up If They're Constantly Tracked and Monitored?

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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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