eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

Sessions include focuses on blended learning, curating classroom resources, using augmented reality, project-based learning, building student media literacy, time-saving tech tricks from librarians, using digital tools with students who have special needs, digital problem-solving, and more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

To meet these expectations, and to have learned a tiny subset of patterning, a designer needs to have worked through enough problems to start to see similarities and differences. Design students should be learning ways to think about solving problems. A longer course of study gives more time for practice and time for patterns to build.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, many district technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Imperative 2: Raise the bar with rigorous, transformative, and innovative learning and skills. Schools need to throw out that.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My My son has learning issues, and when I walked into his classroom, I began to see it through his eyes,” he says. But his current venture is something of a personal mission.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. It may be surprising to learn that as of 2020, according to the CDC-Kaiser Ace Study , up to two-thirds of U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

These case studies demonstrate the success with Google for Education through the lens of teachers, students and administrators. At Evergreen Education Group we’ve studied K-12 digital education for sixteen years. However, relatively little study to date has examined how devices are successfully deployed and what their impact has been.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The qualitative study offers new insights into the best ways to serve students with disabilities in all schools, in particular the benefits of inclusive education. Focusing on inclusion, using data, and forming partnerships are among the practices that can help make special education programs successful in schools, according to a new report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

A Columbia University study done in 2017 revealed that when the parents of middle- and high-schoolers received texts each week outlining their child’s grades, absences, or missed assignments—an example of a strategy known as “ nudge interventions ”—there was a 39-percent reduction in course failures and an 18-percent increase in student attendance.

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Failure Communication Assignments Study 273

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. Students go from “I’m not smart” to “I just haven’t learned that.yet.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The Ben Davis Extended Day (BDED) blended learning program is an extension of one of the district’s high schools, Ben Davis High School. There are four teachers that work in the evening that teach the courses for English, math, science, and social studies.

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Social Studies Blended Learning Learning English 273

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2021

Here are a few of the popular resources teachers are using to reinforce and teach word study: Brainstorming. Learning Styles inventories –several. VARK Questionnaire –how do you best learn? You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Bubbl.us– simple to use and free, no log-in, a bit quirky (IMHO). Spicy Nodes.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

During the past few years, I have closely followed the education studies published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Headlines ranged from “ Schools wasting money on computers for kids ” to “ Computers in schools don’t help kids learn.” Overall, I find great significance in their findings.

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Failure Schools Study Skills 261

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

4 ways to help students learn to love math. For example, if we’re studying fractions, I encourage them to think about the measurements of specific ingredients for their favorite recipes. As each of us eventually learns, life isn’t as simple as right or wrong, failure or success. Commit to inspired teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Even with all our new technology and the amazing strides we have made in the science of learning, our sons’ classrooms in Gastonia look a lot like my classroom did–and an awful lot like my father’s, who was born in 1923. Every student was required to learn the same things during the same chronological period. What did you learn?

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Learning Failure Language Languages 246

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

They begin to fulfill their learning potential. . 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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

In their study, they found that perceived social support among students promoted university adjustment and academic performance. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction , 11 , 59-73. Fricker, T.,

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

In their study, they found that perceived social support among students promoted university adjustment and academic performance. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction , 11 , 59-73. Fricker, T.,

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Previous studies have noted that schools serving well-off communities are more likely to offer computer science than less-resourced schools. But this new study notes that even at schools where coding courses are offered, participation can be unequal. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yet, few have sought innovative solutions to change the fundamental underlying reality: today’s schools were not built to maximize each and every student’s learning. 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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Interdisciplinary Failure Schools Social Studies 262

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The qualitative study offers new insights into the best ways to serve students with disabilities in all schools, in particular the benefits of inclusive education. Focusing on inclusion, using data, and forming partnerships are among the practices that can help make special education programs successful in schools, according to a report.

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Special Education Disabilities Failure Education 224

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With this latest—and largest—surge of coronavirus infections in the United States, K-12 schools that hadn’t yet reopened for in-person learning now see few paths to do so in the near term, and many of the schools that were offering some face-to-face instruction are now pulling back into full-time remote learning.

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Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

To prepare for this reality, there are a growing number of learn-to-code organizations exposing students as young as Kindergarten to computer science education. The real skill that guarantees you a job in the technological world is knowing how to learn these skills. Make no mistake, I am still all about learning to code.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. The student had a tutor and put in countless hours of studying. Do we label this student as “stupid” or smart?

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Failure Education Students English 265

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And that desire for change drew Vallon to Quest to Learn , a public 6-12 school in New York City focused on game-based learning. For 10 years, she's been part of a group of educators and staff using game-based learning to teach students how to think critically and creatively, analyze systems and ask thoughtful questions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

She won the grant, which allowed the Dean Children’s Center to buy two KIBO kits and do an independent study project focused on implementing the hands-on, screen-free robot with four- and five-year-old children at Dean College’s Children’s Center. We will learn a lot from this!”

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 280

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. Learn about some of the study's key findings.

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Failure Math Academic Development English 157

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

According to a McKinsey study , companies in the top quartile for gender diversity on executive teams are 25 percent more likely to have above-average profitability. Learning from adversity: Resilience through setbacks “Each setback has to be a learning lesson,” McNay told me. Diversity is a competitive advantage.

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Education Coaching Failure Fairness 308

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I learned more than any textbook could ever explain, more than any seminar could ever teach, and more than any video could ever portray. I also remembered how my acceptance into the community college’s work-study employment program served as the turning point in my academic and career pathways.

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Failure Textbooks Learning History 162

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The key is to move beyond inductive research that looks for on-average correlations among large N-sizes to deductive research in which we hunt for anomalies—specific circumstances where the outcome we see isn’t what the RCT or large dataset of correlations and studies would have predicted. And that is what leads to better understanding.

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Study Failure Beliefs Achievement 254

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My My son has learning issues, and when I walked into his classroom, I began to see it through his eyes,” he says. But his current venture is something of a personal mission.

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity. A claim about integrity is supported by a learners ability to transparently document and reflect on the learning process and explain or expand on their results.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88