Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The success or failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs. Or not occurring.

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Learning Failure Evaluation Feedback 183

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

UVA-PLE, a leading organization focused on advancing leadership capacity and insights to create transformational school systems, developed the report with research and feedback from nearly 50 education leaders and superintendents across the nation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2023

UVA-PLE, a leading organization focused on advancing leadership capacity and insights to create transformational school systems, developed the report with research and feedback from nearly 50 education leaders and superintendents across the nation.

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Failure Schools Feedback Accessibility 275

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mr. Johnson was willing to provide feedback on drafts. With all the volumes of content to be covered, there just isn’t time in either the class period or the school year for cycles of feedback. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from. The outcome?

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Writing Failure Essay English 297

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

It also provides instant feedback so that learners can improve their knowledge through problem solving. The site operates on a culture of inquiry, curiosity, and remaining open to failure. Allows for failure 8. Brilliant works by helping learners of all ages master content instead of simply memorizing. Effective learning: 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The goal is for students to lead with empathy to identify and define a problem, then develop a realistic solution to that problem that can be tested and refined through feedback. The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Industry and Higher Education , 30 (3), 215223. link] Dorland, A.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 303

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Failure is part of learning. This would allow time for the teacher mentors and coaches to work with other teachers on their campus helping them to design technology infused lessons, co-teach, and provide meaningful feedback. Create a school culture where teachers know it’s okay to take risks and fail.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. In the past, a poor grade usually resulted in the negative feelings associated with failure. They are more willing to listen to and apply the feedback I give them because they are determined to master skills and level up.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 280

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. Similarly, teachers should collect feedback from students about their experience. ” Unearthing Our Mental Models. Which technology tools were most useful?

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Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback. Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Truly active and empathetic listening is, in its own way, an innovative practice. School leaders face no shortage of edtech purchasing options.

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Schools Feedback Failure Culture 291

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy.

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Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 98

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” “Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

Our practice develops over time with experimentation, successes and failures, and student feedback. It will take time and a willingness to pursue our own learning. I often say that I want teachers to think of themselves as the lead learner in a classroom. There is no endpoint when it comes to learning, which should be exciting!

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership skills require people to look inward and find self-confidence that will not only guide them toward successes but focus them through failures—an inevitable part of all leadership positions. Solicit opinions and feedback. The best way to solicit feedback and opinions is being willing to ask questions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values. Research supports the use of formative assessments–ongoing checks for understanding that provide both teachers and students with timely feedback.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. I have colleagues who have used AI tools to create rubrics and to offer feedback on rubrics they’d already created.

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Education Intelligence Failure Feedback 332

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Personalizing feedback at scale In my opinion, personalization at scale is the frontrunner in the diadem of benefits that the AI revolution has inspired. Educators and teachers now, however, can use specialized AI chatbots to realize this dream, using attempted assessments and answer keys to grade, mark, and provide feedback.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other. In one lesson, we transformed KIBO into a snowplow by designing a plow for the front of the robot and programming it to clear snow (or cotton balls).

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 276

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? We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

When we feel like students’ every movement is a reflection of our professional competency or personal failure, it is easy to focus more on enforcing student compliance than cultivating student joy. Instead, my coach provided qualitative feedback and gave me time to revise my strategies based on her tips. He just listened and nodded.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. This faster output makes a profound difference in how students are able to work on their projects.

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High School High School Schools Failure 206

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. To fix this problem, I used the “sandwich approach” in the feedback I gave him. This feedback was usually something simple like, “I love your idea here!”.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When Failure Is an Option “I have seen students really focus on the material and engage with one another and not worry as much about a grade because if they fail something they can always make up the points from somewhere else,” Queen explains. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 167

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Playing our games will help children to succeed in school and develop problem solving skills without a fear of failure. At the same time, it will allow educators to increase engagement, provide appropriate level challenges for students at different levels and receive instant feedback,” said Ian Natzmer, the founder and CEO of Odeum Learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s just been like an interesting clumsy thing, but I still feel like when I ask students for feedback, they are really having a good time. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 121

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Teachers spend a lot of time teaching students to work in groups, identifying different roles and practicing how to give feedback on a game or a project in a way that's constructive. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The goal is to ensure that teachers are comfortable using AI for their own professional purposes, such as lesson planning, generating resources, and providing personalized student feedback. Optimizing Learning Environments AI can be used to optimize school operations and create more effective learning environments.

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Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 209

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. Because this was an ungraded class, the focus was on feedback. On homework, I gave students detailed written feedback, phrased in terms of clear “homework objectives,” but no grades. I often thought mistakes meant failure. Inspired by Susan D.

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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 180

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2016

When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. They can’t make their product better if you don’t give them honest feedback. A true entrepreneur will be eager for genuine feedback. Give them fair feedback on their price.

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Education Feedback Failure Fairness 144

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

We perform critiques of each others’ work, learning how to offer and accept feedback from our classmates and from professional architects, and how we can iterate our designs based on that feedback. When students seem to sputter, we huddle with them to demonstrate modes of feedback they can use with each other.

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Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. They make us want to discover new things, they provide immediate feedback and they spell out goals in a clear way. Yet elements such as clear goals, the use of strategy and even low-stakes failure were less frequently associated with successful outcomes.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. Reflection is a skill that requires practice and feedback, just like anything else. At my last school in San Jose, Calif., we barraged our students with growth mindset lessons during the first two weeks of school. Gupta, I get it.

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 161

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Take notes and tie feedback into their personal goals or hobbies.” Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. As Paul Wilson said, “Teachers can communicate through design, discussion interaction, and formative feedback.”

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 136