Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How could a game featuring so little language drive this much language learning? In addition to the language generated by the students themselves in their projects, I found that a huge amount of English was being generated as students shared tips, accessed online guides and built a common understanding.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

Ideally, knowledge acquisition as an end in itself would be socioeconomically equitable, but the pursuit of knowledge as an end in itself is mostly a tool of the privileged. Without pattern knowledge built on experience, we’re left with several ways to approach problems. The majority intend to train practitioners, not academics.

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Failure Education Languages Language 146

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 281

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 294

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. “We

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Science STEM Failure Ethics 263

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The aforementioned tools align with my stance, allowing teachers to fine-tune and modify the generated output using natural language prompts to achieve an end goal that works for them and for their students. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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Quizzes Lecturing Exams Ethics 291

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. I am the product of a liberal arts education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Languages 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

That posed a real problem in a district where there are multiple languages spoken at home and not everyone has Internet connectivity. 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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Failure Internet Teaching Methods Accessibility 253

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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Failure Multidisciplinary Testing Skills 160

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Squirrel—so named because, like the furry, nut-gathering rodent, it is fast, agile, plans ahead and “cracks tough nuts,” according to founder and CEO Derek Haoyang Li—uses an AI adaptive learning system and human instructors to give students a personalized education on subjects ranging from Chinese language to physics. recalls Li. “I

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Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. Watch your language. One of our tips?

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 180

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. One of Mini’s greatest assets is her ability to learn and build a knowledge base that responds empathetically to questions from parents and students.

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Failure Communication Study Change Management 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

Taking a class can help you broaden your knowledge, and it can also help you see other teaching styles. Being able to explain how languages work can help you relate them to things the kids enjoy. Troubleshooting failure is one of the biggest things coders focus on, but kids might find this leads to frustration.

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Teaching Learning Styles Languages Language 140

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks.

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Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Here is how to use comics in your classes: Open the comic creator you use in your class.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With that knowledge, when I moved to Jakarta International School in Indonesia, and with the help of several dear colleagues, we began creating student-centered programs. I asked my English language learners to create films. Did we have failures? I tried to be creative, use the resources around me and empower my students.

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 192

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. Course scheduling, for example, becomes more complicated with school-wide, mixed-grade language classes. On that front, we were lucky to have the school’s back.

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Grades Languages Language Essay 128

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). References Agarwal, P. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 116

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?” Luis looks at his paper and reads what he wrote, “I think that Reconstruction was a failure because of the Black Codes.” This framework, which some refer to as the “Habits of Discussion,” equips teachers and students with a common language for engaging in classroom discourse.

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Failure STEM Discussions Participation 108

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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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

It stands for: Transparency Real World Applications Universal Design for Learning Social Knowledge Construction Trial and Error Transparency refers to making the purpose and requirements for the assignment as clear as possible. Yet, many college assignments lack the opportunity for students to construct knowledge with others.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

If there is a personal project or business opportunity you’ve been interested in trying out, there’s no better time than the present to dive into something new and challenging, acquaint yourself with failure, pick yourself back up again, and build the muscle needed for high-growth, lifelong learning.

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Students Failure Beliefs Skills 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Once I was in my placement school, the families of my Black, Latino, and white Middle Eastern students, a majority of whom spoke a language other than English at home , deferred to me in a way that felt undeserved, almost as if I was perceived to be a savior that could parachute in and fix all their child’s problems.

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Teaching Culture Failure Fairness 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

But it turns out too often, no one is tasked with providing that knowledge. Once a problem is solved, ask students to retain that knowledge, transfer it to other classes, and teach their friends. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure.

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Teachers Plagiarism History Math 129

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). References Agarwal, P. Journal of Educational Psychology, 111 (2), 189.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. But the fact that there is little data should not be a proof-point that these models don’t work.

History 136

History Critical Thinking Learning Interdisciplinary 136

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).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

Disabilities 130

Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Special Education 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

That podcast investigates a few educators and a publisher who have made a small fortune selling an approach to reading instruction based on a concept called Whole Language, which has been proven ineffective for many children. That was sort of her first one really looking at the failure of early reading instruction.

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Reading Failure Fairness Testing 161

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

As posited by Vygotsky (1978), learning is most effective when students are provided with the appropriate level of support and guidance to help them develop their skills and knowledge. Students are more likely to take ownership of their mistakes and apply their newfound knowledge and skills to the task.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

It was not uncommon for Shawn to throw chairs, push over desks, or shout “colorful language” at his peers and teachers. To keep expectations high, I sometimes have to find different avenues for students to access or demonstrate the required skills or knowledge. Students who regularly do poorly on tests do not want to feel that failure.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 116

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

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. If you walked into my classroom today, you’d likely hear us using language from the diagram during lessons and one-to-one conferences.

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Motivation Students Special Education Math 145