Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

A moment of inspiration came while observing my students as they played different types of games—they were fueled by various motivations. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning. My intent with this shift in practice was to get to know my students in a deeper way.

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 147

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. Make failure fun.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. With experience teaching in elementary, middle and high schools, I can attest to the trend that students do seem less motivated and engaged as they progress through school.

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

No matter the class, that teacher–be s/he history, literacy, social studies, math, reading, writing, or tech–reminds students of the right way to keyboard. This is accomplished by addressing basic and academic vocabulary across all subjects, whether students are in history, science, math, or reading. Try, fail, try again.

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Teachers Plagiarism History Math 139

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. It doesn't encourage you to expand your movie watching habits by suggesting movies you may not like but are seminal in cinematic history. Do Learners Really Know Best?

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, learning environments have typically assumed that failure is the learner’s fault. We have many caring people working with learners and investing substantial time and effort across decades, now, more than ever in our history, in building skills (albeit inefficiently). So what are we missing? We need learning engineers.

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Education Learning Science Feedback 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. It's not a one-way street.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

There are a couple of bad guys in the history of our field and he's one of them. In this world, would there be such a thing as failure? What is bad, though, is when competition becomes the defining characteristic of education—because people are motivated by different things. I'm guessing you're not a fan of his. Not really.

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Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 147

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Gaming actually celebrates failure rather than punishing it. I’ve always claimed that we should bring the deep ways of teaching and learning that game designers use in order to motivate problem solving to school, whether or not teachers and students use a game. Gaming actually celebrates failure rather than punishing it.

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Teaching Game-Based Learning Intelligence Failure 120

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. These solutions will prioritize the relationship between teacher and student, enabling teachers to serve as motivators and facilitators of student learning, which is critical to student engagement and success.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Marie Cini is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maryland University College, which has a high number of nontraditional college students and has a long history of serving that population. It's the highest of any nation in history. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Dopamine release during gaming motivates repeated effort, turning repetitive tasks into enjoyable ones. Minecraft Education Edition: Useful for collaborative projects in history, science, and architecture. Autonomy activates intrinsic motivation, the kind that sustains long-term curiosity and effort.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Emphasize the Journey Despite the changing educational landscape, there are some learning experiences that remain constant: reading landmark literature to study trailblazing individuals and pivotal moments in history. In fact, whatever you’re already reading in English, science or history may showcase incredible acts of resilience.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 142

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

For much of the conversation with Jackson, he drew from his own checkered history at school to loose a quiver full of criticisms on where schools should do better. He worked odd jobs during the year and said—fittingly enough for a venture capitalist—that he was motivated primarily by money. “I

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Failure Schools History Motivation 165

Teacher Toms Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

On the short list of history's geniuses, most of us would include Leonardo da Vinci. At least if judged by today's productivity standards, da Vinci was a classic failure-to-launch dreamer, full of high falutin ideas, but obviously without the grit or rigor to pull himself up by his own bootstraps or whatever.

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Failure History STEM Motivation 86

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The failure rate among Hispanic, Black and Native students was higher by more than 10 percentage points. While she wasnt teaching during the pandemic, she saw friends and family struggle to replicate the way teachers motivate students to work. Among all eighth graders, 33 percent failed to reach basic reading proficiency. Perez says.

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