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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

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That was when he saw firsthand “not only the scale of educational failure on the continent, but also the barriers to solving it,” he recalls via email. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

But I acted on that fear, asking questions about data recovery that helped guide me through developing a disaster recovery plan for the district. . As I said, it didn’t take long before we had to test our solution to this question. Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information?

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” Communication is Key Still many questions and lessons remain. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure?

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 144

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

And in 2017, the New York Attorney General settled with the same organization , due to its “failure to adequately prevent illegal tracking technology from surfacing on some of the nation’s most popular children’s websites.” Amelia Vance, a policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum , has similar thoughts. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. OpenAI opened the floodgates of change again when it made a version of ChatGPT free to all, putting it at the fingertips of every student with an internet connection.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Not only did they lose the personal touch of sitting in a classroom with their peers or caring for patients during their clinical experience, but they also lost the one-to-one contact of being able to talk with a faculty member and ask questions as they came up, such as what often occurs during a class or a moment of patient care.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

Not only did they lose the personal touch of sitting in a classroom with their peers or caring for patients during their clinical experience, but they also lost the one-to-one contact of being able to talk with a faculty member and ask questions as they came up, such as what often occurs during a class or a moment of patient care.

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Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. percent of homes don’t have internet subscriptions.) Census Bureau. (In

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

EdSurge recently hosted a meetup where we invited a group of experts to weigh in on those questions, and they offered some fascinating insights. Dhawal Shah, Class Central I want to quickly touch on your earlier question about monetization because I think there is attention in higher education about the fact that we're actually a business.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

One way to answer that question is to track what readers read, shared and “Liked” most. From early attempts at building learning management systems in the 1990s to today’s explosion of infrastructure and software in classrooms, Palmer charts the success and failures of edtech—and why he’s bullish about the future.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

The bigger issue is that research on outcomes from learning technologies is almost never about answering the question, “Is this technology effective?” In education, it’s almost always about the question, “Under what conditions is this technology effective?” (Though that’s getting better and can be fixed.) We embraced the word “help.”

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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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Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 81

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. Be accessible and supportive.

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 97

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. For international students, this act of showing respect is vital, as they fear failure in the course if their communication style is perceived as disrespectful. Be accessible and supportive.

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Feedback Culture Learning Students 91

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Without having to get political, the internet has opened up lots, and lots, and lots of alternative facts. It’s a great question, and I would say you’d ask the coal miners and the folks in Detroit on the assembly line the same question. You’re going to have to learn how to learn content on your own, which you can do at home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2016

A frequent question from readers revolves around technology goals for students. Assess whether students meet this goal by observing them in class and having other teachers/parents anecdotally report successes (or failures). It’s tempting to phrase goals like: 4th graders can create a chart in a spreadsheet .

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Students Knowledge Failure Assignments 81

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). It encourages students to learn the material, relearn weak areas, and removes the fear-of-failure brain freeze that many students experience on test day. Each course has about a hundred videos, each 5-10 minutes in length.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2016

Asked questions. Once a week we got together virtually (via Google Hangout or a Twitter Chat) to share ideas, answer questions, and discuss nuances. Lots of questions, often directed to each other–for clarification, personal experience, or simple collegiality. Internet availability at home is still an issue.

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Gamification Syllabus Failure Internet 68

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Like an ad on the internet? on graduate education, the question you should ask yourself is, ‘Why?’ And it is, without question, our biggest failure in nine years. That is, without question, something that I think about with our size and our scaling at this point. So there are remarkable similarities.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

But I acted on that fear, asking questions about data recovery that helped guide me through developing a disaster recovery plan for the district. . As I said, it didn’t take long before we had to test our solution to this question. Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information?

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Failure Discussions Internet Questions 64

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Campbell: I would challenge anyone to find a thoughtful liberal-learning curriculum that has been carefully structured by experts for free on the internet. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable. Let me speak to the question that you've asked.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

Plus, he adds, they’re often “fearless,” not stopping to consider whether their questions might be seen as silly. (In And I got all excited because this is a question that in Western philosophy is famous because Descartes made it famous. This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real?

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2024

You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the internet. Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Has this happened to you? You test it several times just to be sure.

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Technology Failure Internet Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You spend hours rewriting an old lesson plan, incorporating rich, adventurous tools available on the internet. Because to many, ‘tech problem’ equates to the mind-numbing, bone-chilling feeling of ‘I have no idea what to do’ In a word: Failure. Has this happened to you? Not a feeling veteran teachers like.

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Technology Failure Internet Classroom Management 124

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

An epic legal battle between authors and publishers and the Internet giant over alleged copyright violations dragged on for years. The rest come from the Internet Archive’s ongoing scanning work and local digitization efforts, according to Furlough. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being. Schonfeld says.

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Fairness History English Internet 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Not always true. Expand your discussion by watching and then discussing this video on Online Reputations.

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Plagiarism Fairness Discussions Art 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In fact, the answer to the question… “What online images can I use?” But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Not always true. In general terms, you must cite sources for: facts not commonly known or accepted. Digital privacy.

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Plagiarism Fairness Discussions Art 117

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

So one big question I had … is what happened with all these machines? So some pin One Laptop per Child's eventual failure on its technical shortcomings, and it was in a lot of cases a frustrating-to-use machine. They really rely on having an internet connection and being able to store a lot of the things remotely.

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Internet Failure Technology Reading 124

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

2: The internet doesn’t create difficult discourse—people do. In a time when most interactions between students are happening in virtual spaces, some may wonder how we educate young people on the importance of civil discourse in digital spaces—especially when the current state of the internet isn’t always “civil."

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