eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process. By providing early STEM education, we equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in a competitive job market. STEM subjects often involve trial and error, demanding persistence and a growth mindset.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It is a process where students evaluate their work, reflecting on what they’ve learned, how well they’ve understood complex concepts, how much progress they’ve made toward mastering key skills, and where they may need to invest time and energy to improve their concept knowledge and skill set.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Furthermore, in an online environment, if teachers complete course work on their own time, there is still no guarantee that they will use the newly obtained knowledge in their classrooms. To support this effort, some schools offer tech-based PD as an added option, which may or may not set it up for failure.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. Despite having only seven weeks to study for the exam, I passed with flying colors.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. The instructional team can only be effective when everyone agrees on the non-negotiable goals.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. Although there’s nothing wrong—and some things right—with those solutions, what none of them do is upend the fact that today’s schools were not designed to optimize learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer. Speaking and writing are about producing the language, requiring a different mental muscle from learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Because MathReady can target each individual’s knowledge and put them on a personalized path to success, we can help level the playing field in math for all students – and not just those that can afford it – through this free offer.”. For over 20 years, ALEKS has served more than 20 million K-12 and college level math students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions. As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

Educators should examine the number of parents who are not knowledgeable about the various methods of communication that are available to them through their school district. First off, I would argue that educators need to work on improving the digital literacy of their students’ parents.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

The pressure to perform well on assessments can create a situation where the grade becomes more important than the actual knowledge being gained. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. Knee recounts the tales of several doomed education ventures, including those emerging from Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe. And yet we know some failure is inevitable when we innovate, be it in medicine or education. We reflect on these failures.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance. Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Digital tech has changed other knowledge industries much faster than higher ed, but seismic shifts are still coming to colleges. Understand that the early failure of innovation and reform initiatives does not equate to a wholesale validation of traditional models.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Key points: Deeper learning helps immerse students in a more engaging education model Redesigning the educational model after COVID Educational leaders must leverage collaboration for success For more news on district leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Today’s students need to develop a broad and well-rounded body of knowledge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. As teachers, we don’t get trained to think of failure as a positive thing in any way, even though as researchers we know that failure is a part of the learning process. I think that’s amazingly important for higher education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. If you’re honest, respectful, and you're persistent—if you risk failure—you’re really able to motivate each other to do amazing things. With Otus I have better knowledge of who my students are. And not steal in a bad way.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

School used to be about gaining a shared body of knowledge. If you were clever, paid attention, had good memorization skills and could afford it, you could even progress to college and possibly to graduate school, where your agreed-upon knowledge would qualify you for a profession. The world is changing. The future is global.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Peskes organization found that most elementary teacher prep programs dont give potential teachers enough time to develop math content knowledge. Knowing something for yourself isnt the same as knowing how to transfer that knowledge to students, which is more complex, she says. But even for teachers who get credentials, its complicated.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Even with this knowledge, we persist in training our students to be unskilled workers even though we know that all the jobs involving routine tasks and predictable decisions will have long been automated or outsourced by the time these kids hit the workforce. It is a kill switch, shutting down interest, engagement and effort.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. I started by reviewing knowledgeable websites like Benchmark Education. They are knowledgeable. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. This not only makes submitting work painless (and less likely to get lost) when submitted to a public forum, students benefit from each other’s knowledge. Learn from others and share your knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

Transfer of knowledge is key. Respond to their varied time constraints and knowledge levels. Failure is a learning tool. In life, failure happens. Those who thrive know how to recover from failure and continue. What students use at school may not be what their future employer requires. Differentiation is the norm.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Now, they want to use their kids’ native interest in online gaming to scaffold math knowledge. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. Fee or subscription.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2025

The solutions require local knowledge and a healthy dose of authenticity, curiosity, collaboration, and relationships. The most successful leaders are those who share their work–their successes and their failures–and who lead with empathy, learning from others. Our contexts require contextual responses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. Early Assessment First, it’s essential that teachers get an accurate understanding of each student’s reading level as early as possible.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In other words, don’t expect educators to just pick up the devices and start teaching, he warns, and don’t assume that your technical staff is up to speed and knowledgeable on device usage and support.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The students] move away from that algorithmic knowledge of mathematics, just following steps and just working like a little robot,” says Daniela Zamora Zuniga, a former economics student who was a learning assistant from 2019 through 2022. Failure could mean potential biologists, mathematicians or engineers being pushed out of the field.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2016

The Challenge taught me the importance of the three C’s of science – creativity, collaboration and communication – as well as embracing failure as an opportunity for learning. Video entries will be evaluated based on their creativity, scientific knowledge, persuasiveness and overall presentation.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The program is designed for our employees to build knowledge of what actually happens in classrooms, as well as an understanding of the deep tensions and issues with our educational system. Knee: A set of case studies about some of the biggest edtech failures, with amazing lessons for current companies. Class Clowns ” by Jonathan A.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

You own your successes and your failures. If you’re a local, the spot is common knowledge. It requires bravery in the face of repeated embarrassment and failure. Plus, bilingualism has even been found to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. Language learning gives you power.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We have decomposed knowledge points to the super nano level,” says Li. “We While the student tackles subjects online, the AI generates ongoing analysis of the student’s state of knowledge. He was already using physics knowledge in real life! More information about Squirrel AI. It could reshape how the world learns. “One

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Altitude’s services are based on a “learner-centered” pedagogical model that champions helping students develop agency over their learning, designing authentic learning experiences and assessments, and applying skills and knowledge to real life.

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