Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” This week’s episode raises a bigger question: Why does education seem prone to faddism? Our guest, Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who researched PSI for a book on the history of college teaching, has a few insights.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. But I’ve never done well in history,” they say. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. I’m not smart.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” Those questions, along with many others, are explored in “The Amateur Hour,” a new book about the history of college teaching by Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. They show the human side of leadership, bringing in others to help solve problems and reveal an openness to new ideas. They are nimble, adjustable and ready to move.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Ask a Question Two Rivers was founded on the principle that we need to embrace a broader definition of student success than what has been handed to us by state and national policy. Problem Solving: The ability to identify the key questions in a problem, develop possible paths to a solution, and follow through with a solution.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Did we have failures? I placed an image with a question on the board, and all the students responded either with sticky notes or text. This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! This is history in the making, and it is exciting to be a part of it! I asked them to create websites. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The future of work and embracing innovation Cathy Davidson , CUNY professor and expert at the intersection of technology and history, offered the conservative prediction that 65% of our students will end up in careers that have yet to be invented. Listen, ask questions and be genuinely curious about their experience in the moment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.” New Mexico has a history of being last in the nation by many traditional measures of success, such as graduation rates. They don’t blame students for failure, and they don’t blame themselves or the system either.

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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. In my classes, students must qualify to use Minecraft by answering a series of questions I pose. How students answer this question is always interesting. Make failure fun.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

In cyberspace, students are confronted often–if not daily–with questions regarding cyberbullying, digital privacy, digital footprints, plagiarism, and more. The question is: Who’s teaching students how to thrive in this brave new world? A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. Try, fail, try again.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

All over the world, students are questioning the value of their learning experiences and are responding in revolt with reduced enrollments and lawsuits. This is an opportunity for colleges to question whether they have properly invested in the academicians charged with delivering innovative programs.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. His parents approached me at Open House to thank me for allowing their child to experience that time in history in ways that suited their family values. They are knowledgeable. I had a 4th grader once.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It's a great question. I mean, the only thing I can point to there is just sort of the history of our K-12 system. No question. But no question, it's very costly to be the parent of a newborn and up. To your question about, are there states or examples? No question. Where did that misconception come from?

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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. A question to kick-off "Mindset Monday." Wondering why Jennifer chose Aurasma?

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MARCH 24, 2015

The vehicle for teaching these ideas is history, science, and literature, but they aren’t the goal. You let them know what’s going on in the classroom, welcome their questions and visits, communicate often via email or blogs when it’s convenient for them. Failure is a learning tool. Differentiation is the norm.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This reference to a “Jap cook” gives me an opening to talk about the history of anti-Asian sentiment in the West. I felt like a failure. Instead, I wish I had known about restorative questions. I didn’t need to lecture about the anti-Asian history of California.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Storage Failure Has Consequences for K–12 Schools. It can include everything from names and birthdates to learning styles, social preferences, grades and even medical histories. The impact of storage security failure is substantial. Ask the Tough Questions. Student data isn’t single source. by Doug Bonderud.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. In education, it’s almost always about the question, “Under what conditions is this technology effective?”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

The GDPR will go into effect on May 25, and failure to comply could result in fines of 20 million euros or 4 percent of the entity’s global annual revenue, depending on what is greater. Meanwhile, edX did not provide an answer to the particular question. If you ask Johnson, some questions will only be answered in time. “We

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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. In the second semester, the seminar examines the scale of educational innovation, asking questions such as, “what do we do with innovation once it is built?”

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A 2022 report published by that task force revealed that about 1,000 aspiring educators were unable to begin a preparation program each year due to their failure to pass the Praxis Core. Tom Philion “There’s more questioning going on, among all parties involved in teacher preparation,” Philion admits. “We asks James.

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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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Name : Sarah Cardoza Age: 29 Location : Eagle River, Alaska College : University of Alaska Fairbanks Area of study : History and secondary education Hometown : Homer, Alaska EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? History] class my senior year of high school, and my teacher was fantastic. I felt kind of like a failure.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

Teachers have broken down in my office sharing that this year, they felt like failures, they felt like first year teachers all over again and that this year, they contemplated leaving the profession. I began to see everyone I interacted with as a human being with history, knowledge and expertise I had never noticed before.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

They take the question out to their home, to their relatives, to their children, to their classmates in other courses. Sometimes they’ll post the questions on social media. There are all sorts of ways in which go out and ask that question, and it inevitably generates discussion. Sometimes they’ll ask their peers at work.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Figure 2: Screenshot of the Social Engagement section in the User Experience Research Project Final Reflection document Trial and Error is about giving students the opportunity to learn through failure.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They asked questions like, “Can I use a phrase instead of a word?” The students observed that these words insinuated difficulty, obstacles and likely failure. (If you have a moment, feel free to follow along and add your own words.) The class buzzed through the first two blanks, easily completing the ideas. Some started to struggle.

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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? [Wikipedia notes that a 2002 Review of General Psychology survey ranked Thorndike as the ninth most cited psychologist of the 20th century.]. I'm guessing you're not a fan of his. Not really.

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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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

A few focus on broad perspectives regarding moral questions in education while others are myopic. Playful Learning Image Credit: Sean Arnold There are a number of reasons I use games for instruction , but the most compelling is the power games have to shift student incentives and redefine failure.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

This could be the single most successful ad in the history of education. Well, I think we're way too early in the history of this general adoption [to predict the outcome].If on graduate education, the question you should ask yourself is, ‘Why?’ And it is, without question, our biggest failure in nine years.

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