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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

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Fifty percent of UVA-PLE’s recent partners have reported double-digit gains in math or language arts in only two years. .” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003. This press release originally appeared online.

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Let Students Learn From Failure

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Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. The teacher won’t be surprised by a failure or a question they can’t answer. Revise your mindset.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

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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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The Real Reason Your Translation App Will Never Replace Language Learning

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Of all the classroom subjects technology is poised to change, perhaps none stoke the imagination quite like language learning. In-ear technology promises to make 40 languages comprehensible in approximately two seconds lag time. I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product.

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The Failure of Fast Education

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I’m worried that students emerging from these programs are not ready to act as functioning designers because they have not started developing a pattern language for design problems. The quality problem I’m referring to is about preparedness: being prepared to tackle real design problems. This failing is a direct result of fast education.

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Forward Failures, Future of Work and What’s (Not) the Next Big Thing in Edtech

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Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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7 discoveries from an active learning classroom

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The renovated classroom and colorful mobile chairs and desks provided by the grant have literally transformed my practice, my seventh-grade language arts students, and their families. Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success.