Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This power imbalance is one that is inherent to membership in TFA, where college students are enticed to move cities for an impactful post-grad experience and find themselves embedded in low-income and disenfranchised communities , of which they have no knowledge. Thank you so much for calling,” she said. Is This the Best We Can Do?

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

As posited by Vygotsky (1978), learning is most effective when students are provided with the appropriate level of support and guidance to help them develop their skills and knowledge. Students are more likely to take ownership of their mistakes and apply their newfound knowledge and skills to the task.

Student Engagement

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Create tasks and projects that are “low floor, high ceiling”—accessible for students regardless of background knowledge, experience or their idea of an engineer. Failure is a valuable part of the process, and your attitude toward failure will shape the attitude of your students. Education is an amazing field to work in.

Science

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

That was sort of her first one really looking at the failure of early reading instruction. They should come in with a certain level of experience and knowledge that they can serve kids on day one But thank goodness for the amazing journalism of Emily Hanford. Is it evidence-based? Is it working for all of our kids?

Reading

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

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn from failure. This not only makes submitting work painless (and less likely to get lost) when submitted to a public forum, students benefit from each other’s knowledge. Learn from others and share your knowledge.

Skills

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead. These include Habits of Mind , Depth of Knowledge , and Mindfulness. In a Fixed Mindset your failures define you like, “I’m no good at dancing!” If they decide they aren’t creative, they won’t pursue music. Blended philosophy.

Critical Thinking

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Be responsible for failures. There’s a great opportunity there because it’s also coupled with the fact that the adults are much more skilled and advanced in knowledge. In looking back at your years at LAUSD and in other districts, you’ve worked a fair amount with bringing technology into the classroom. Share successes.

Language

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

And while Google vastly improved its scanning technology as the project went along, it wasn’t ultimately able to resolve a persistent cultural challenge: how to balance copyright and fair use and keep everybody—authors, publishers, scholars, librarians—satisfied. That work still lies ahead.

Fairness

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Discuss the meaning of ‘Fair Use’ It provides rights to use images for education purposes without obtaining permission from the creator. How does ‘fair use’ apply to your academic research?

Plagiarism

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Discuss the meaning of ‘Fair Use’ It provides rights to use images for education purposes without obtaining permission from the creator. How does ‘fair use’ apply to your academic research?

Plagiarism

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

What really helps you to become more creative is learning a bunch of stuff and having a wide, broad base of knowledge that you can draw from, and mindfulness isn't going to help you to get there. And to be fair, Carol Dweck has acknowledged that this is part of her research program, so I'm not criticizing her particularly.

Teaching