eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

In the eighth grade, he started working on a math program that uses AI to provide just-in-time feedback and contextual hints. Teachers work incredibly hard to help students meet grade-level expectations and excel. Still, teachers need support to meet learners where they are in their math journeys. AI can assist with that.

130

130

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

I fear these mental models will cause many leaders, teachers, parents, and school systems to embrace a return to pre-pandemic norms without questioning what has been gained in this year that is worth retaining. Teacher training programs likely reinforced those mental models. The teacher is the expert. The Power of Mental Models.

Mental Models 541

Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Failure to comply with these laws can lead to serious legal consequences. Incorrect answers or misleading feedback may create confusion or lower academic performance. This shows that it is important to position AI as a tool, not a teacher. Teachers should train students to verify AI information with real sources.

Disabilities 138

Disabilities Ethics Schools Plagiarism 138

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

Some teachers choose to create their own game for their classroom in order to customize features including backstory, characters, rules, and objectives. At the same time, there are many user-friendly apps that teachers use to simplify those features. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure.

Gamification 279

Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 279

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.”

Curriculum 307

Curriculum Failure Essay Art 307

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.

Feedback 120

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 120

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

Coaching 218

Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Consider how these changes can impact your daily work and influence outcomes for the teachers and learners you serve: Reframe your understanding of personalized learning. Elevate teacher and student voices. Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback. New apps and solutions appear on the market constantly.

Schools 301

Schools Feedback Failure Culture 301

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

This article explores the major reasons students resort to cheating and using AI, and offers strategies to help teachers design assessments that minimize these tendencies, informed by the latest research on assessment practices. Solution for teachers : To combat this, its important to make learning experiences relevant.

Academic Integrity 223

Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 223

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

Katie Novak and I wrote UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes to support teachers in developing a mindset, skill set, and toolset nimble enough to traverse any teaching and learning landscape with confidence. I often say that I want teachers to think of themselves as the lead learner in a classroom.

Universal Design 294

Universal Design Blended Learning Authentic Assessment Learning 294

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Key points: AI tools have great potential–as long as students use them correctly The best way for teachers to get started with AI is just to play around with it See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education?

Education 337

Education Intelligence Failure Feedback 337

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

Quizzes 304

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 304

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.

Feedback 98

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 98

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.

Failure 261

Failure Feedback Culture Skills 261

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

AI making human teachers obsolete. AI making human teachers obsolete. Some people say it will replace teachers, but I disagree,” he says. “I Here’s the twist: human coaches are on site to interpret the AI feedback and offer the student extra support. Giving individualized attention is not easy for teachers,” says Kim.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Her teacher wanted her in my class for socialization purposes, and she did well. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy?

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. I have heard a lot of people say that they don’t think that online schooling works well because there isn’t in-person interaction between a student and their teacher. To fix this problem, I used the “sandwich approach” in the feedback I gave him.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

embrace 3D printing and its benefits, administrators and teachers must find an effective way to make the technology accessible to more students. Megan Boyd and David Bodmer, two teachers at MOHS, started incorporating 3D printing into their curriculum. As more and more schools across the U.S.

High School 223

High School High School Schools Failure 223

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

This group, composed of representatives of key patrons including administrators, teachers, and support staff from all grade levels, can research AI’s potential, pilot its use in various educational settings, and develop professional learning opportunities for staff.

Intelligence 223

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 223

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

But because they are easily customizable, teachers and parents of elementary school children can utilize them by creating a project-based learning process to help the kids better understand school books and relate to the events described there.

Failure 165

Failure Schools Social Studies Elementary School 165

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. Many teachers have attempted to deter cheating with AI by threatening greater consequences.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Vulnerability leads to inclusive groups, deeper friendships, a high level of creative collaboration and a willingness to “fail forward” (or to learn from failure). The results were outstanding.

Failure 293

Failure Feedback Culture Students 293

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It also provides opportunities through teacher advisory sessions to ensure students feel supported on a social-emotional level. 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.

Game-Based Learning 185

Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 185

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.

Failure 147

Failure Feedback Students Exams 147

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).

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Do they think schools and teachers avoid innovation and won’t take risks? When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. Here are some tips for teachers: What Educators Should Know About Edtech Entrepreneurs. If it’s too high tell them why.

Education 139

Education Feedback Failure Fairness 139

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. They want to stick with their existing understanding of geometry and how it works, get that “one right answer” and (this is the part that really terrifies me, because many of them are pre-service teachers) teach their future students in the exact same way.

Feedback 182

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 182

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

At these events, almost all teachers said they get the big ideas around growth mindset, but over 80 percent said their schools don’t implement them well. 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.

Beliefs 157

Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 157

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. Kindergarteners, teachers and other visitors are constantly stopping by to chat with us about our work.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. In the past, this feedback loop always required a teacher or administrator to respond. Anything she wasn’t able to answer was escalated to a member of our team.

Failure 170

Failure Communication Study Change Management 170

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

What would you have students and teachers do before they get to you, instead of a paint-by-numbers approach that you say the five-paragraph represents? Instant feedback can be horrible for a piece of writing. The teacher brings you into his world, and says this is how writers act, how they behave, how they think, what they do.

Writing 167

Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

It requires a deep respect for the pedagogical practices that teachers have honed for decades, balanced with fluency in today’s digital tools. To conduct learner research it’s helpful to combine practices from design thinking with those of participatory research or teacher action research that educators have been practicing for many years.

Feedback 163

Feedback Failure Lecturing Curriculum 163

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

As tutoring progresses, the Littera platform captures student and tutor feedback, attendance, and dosage data, and connects the dots for schools and teachers to have visibility into tutoring programs executed on the platform. About Saga Education.

Achievement 144

Achievement Education Math Failure 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. If it does have to do with conditions, then how games are used for learning—and the context teachers place them in—might be just as important as the games themselves. Part of that success may be attributable to the way games are designed—e.g.,

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

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.”

Failure 132

Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact. The mantra “learn from failure” turned out to be particularly important, although challenging to implement. No risk-taking means no innovation.

Failure 146

Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 146

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Pointing to disorder in managerial-administrative tasks and teacher feedback loops, she encouraged edtech leaders to innovate in those areas. Yet, when it came to student-facing work she noted teachers have the most important role to play—words that sparked discussions on Twitter. . Camera (@laurenonthehill) December 19, 2017.

Educational Technologies 119

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 119