eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

You might feel that way about Brilliant –a site that helps users learn not through lecture videos, but through hands-on, interactive learning. The site operates on a culture of inquiry, curiosity, and remaining open to failure. Allows for failure 8. In all, 8 principles guide the learning offered on Brilliant. Is active 4.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it. And if theyre willing to try, we must create situations where they believe they can succeed.

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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. Schools need to throw out that.

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Technology Failure Learning Lecturing 254

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. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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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 homework was intentionally challenging, often requiring problem-solving beyond what was covered in lectures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. Do I need this?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 275

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity.

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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. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 283

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Recognizing their failure to prepare for a digital future—after a year of so-so emergency remote instruction—higher ed leaders are now trying to make up for lost virtual decades by rushing to partner with online program managers (OPMs), commercial vendors who help colleges deliver and market online programs.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Determining where educators draw the line for failure, whether that’s with students of color, low-income students, immigrant students or some other group, determines educational outcomes and equity opportunities for the future.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent. Without the traditional reliance on lectures, students are free to go through these modules at their own pace, skimming quickly through easier concepts and spending adequate time on tougher ones.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes. Or to think that] it’s not a big deal if I put an hour-long video [lecture]. And then I get feedback and I try again. And that’s the learning process.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. What do you think about Lecture Capture. But also, Lecture Capture is like watching a video of Spiderman the musical. But Lecture Capture is big business.

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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. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. Teaching no longer involves a knowledgeable teacher who lectures from the front of the room. I had a 4th grader once.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 132

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Historically, I approached this lesson through direct instruction, building a presentation to support a lecture. I teach my students that failure is an opportunity for growth and that they shouldn’t be afraid to try new things, but sometimes it’s hard to take my own advice.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 160

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture.

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eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 142

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. I was a perfectionist who desperately wanted to please my teachers and parents and to prove myself, but so often I felt like a failure because I didn’t have the answer first. That class was a nightmare for me. I was shy and dreaded speaking up in class.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In English courses, making curricula and instruction more culturally relevant to diverse students is a relatively “straightforward” task, Rodriguez says, whereas in math, “the traditional lecture-based approach where students practice problems and take tests and sit in lectures is the standard.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. Many of my students don’t have this mindset. This viewpoint can be debilitating for a learner.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 138

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Part of that success may be attributable to the way games are designed—e.g.,

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

The first step for creating a risk-informed adult learner is an environment that facilitates social dialogue between the learner and the lecturer. Creating such an environment is the responsibility of the lecturer who should establish certain parameters for communication. Create a social presence in your class environment.

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Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Lecturing 105

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. Redesigning this course is going to be a journey of reflection and possible failure, but I am hopeful. I am a faculty member at Loyola University Maryland in the Educational Technology Program for the School of Education.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. Now if the test changed and you saw an emphasis on those skills—and if you could demonstrate that games were a more effective way to teach them than a lecture or a reading—then I think you’d see the adoption skyrocket.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Her/his success doesn’t come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a 21st century classroom. What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest. They don’t want to.

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