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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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

The thoughts on learning and education from Tim Manson. Skip to content Home About Blended Learning Using ICT for Learning – where are we now? 2024) What about Blended Learning? for Blended Learning) What is Blended Learning? What are the building blocks of Blended Learning? Why pedagogy?

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, different is not always bad, and that is what a recent study found out. This recent study had various pairings of autistic, non-autistic and mixed-group participants and had them do two tasks. However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. Eventually, I brought it back.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. Eventually, I brought it back.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Most learning is not the result of instruction. His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. Teaching and learning are very different things.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. When the learning is visible the teacher knows if it is occurring.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? So that you can learn more quickly and build systems to support schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. This approach especially helps reluctant readers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms. But what if… What if they loved learning? How many of our students feel excited to learn in our schools today? Probably not.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In fact, studies have shown that test anxiety is actually the worst in the middle grades. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared. However, testing anxiety affects students of all ages.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

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

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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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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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