eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Did we have failures? But I would tell my students, We will learn from this. And I knew I had to use it with students. Absolutely.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. Almost all of those companies went out of business. The list goes on and on.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Whether its board games, video games, or made-up playground challenges, they engage deeply with anything that has goals, rewards, and feedback. Why It Works Gamification works because it introduces immediate feedback and visible progress, two elements that keep learners engaged.

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