Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists. Try asking someone if they were good at math as a child.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a classroom teacher, I gamified my classroom because I needed an engaging way to deliver the online lessons I created for students during reading and math workshop. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Or, we have a math teacher who uses Minecraft as an assessment. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." What stood out was that our middle and high school students achieved significant growth in 21st-century skills, such as critical thinking, reasoning, problem-solving and communication.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even as they will be required to program machines, they will still have to collaborate, problem solve, and engage in all the very human soft skills. Another way we like to boost the practice of these collaborative and communicative skills is to encourage students to help their classmates if they find success before their peers.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

We have to realize that while we are in a 21st century digital world, not everyone has the digital literacy skills to navigate the world today. In my school in particular, I have many parents who don’t speak or comprehend English and rely solely on their children to translate for them in order to communicate.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

To build up the students’ confidence and skills, I started by having them program and design the KIBO robots on their own. Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized. As the lessons progressed, we explored various uses of KIBO in the classroom.

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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 emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

SplashLearn is a game-based learning program that intelligently adapts to each child’s learning ability and helps them master skills at their own pace. Its curriculum covers pre-kindergarten through grade 5 for math and reading. In 2020, more than 10 million new users joined the SplashLearn program. About SplashLearn.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures. Ben Orlin, author of “Math with Bad Drawings,” once wrote “creativity is what happens when a mind encounters an obstacle. That’s a lot of pressure on teachers to not mess this up.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. There, students are embarking on a quintessential hero’s journey—all about the high seas—that centers an asset-based approach to the teaching of math.

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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. The answer? Learn about some of the study's key findings.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. The importance of identifying and instructing students at any grade who cannot reach fluency and comprehension because of gaps in foundational skills cannot be overstated.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Teachers can become skilled at identifying standards relevant to their student work early on,” says Laura McBain, K-12 lab director of community and implementation at Stanford’s d.school. “It If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. It takes time, practice and habitual reflection.”

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

In one NASEF class, English 9 and Game Design , participating students develop English-language skills by writing about topics covering the history of esports to comparing mythological heroes from literature to those in video games. Skills aren’t the only rewards for virtual athletes.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. He had the capacity to go in and get his Ph.D.,” asks James.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. Searching for Unobtanium Discover the story behind materials, failures, and practice materials characterization methods in the USNA EE labs. Experience real-life application of math and science principles through hands on practical learning. News & World Report.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

“We’ve been talking to many leaders at the college and industry level to better understand what skills students will need to succeed. We heard over and over again that in our rapidly evolving economy, skills like problem-solving and collaboration will be much more important for students than purely technical skills.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Think More Like an Art Teacher Math teachers’ approach to teaching is effective given their subject matter, but when unleashing play in the classroom, teachers—even math teachers—may find it helpful to think of their class more as an art class than a math class.

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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. Anhil was much more knowledgeable than any other 6th grader about the solar system but his math skills were seriously deficient.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Even a game like Candy Crush is hitting some of these skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. One student who had been effusive about the growth mindset lessons was struggling with two-step math equations. In his math class, I saw him get several problems wrong, push back his paper, sigh heavily and mutter, “I can’t do this.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2025

STEAM is an educational approach that includes science, technology, engineering, art, and math. A child who struggles with math might feel more confident when they see how it connects to something creative, like designing a math mosaic. DIY projects also improve motor skills. What is STEAM and Why Does Art Matter in STEM?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Typically, when jobs evaporate, Americans turn to colleges and universities to increase their skills and marketability. The financial risk of entering higher education was already high, precisely because of the cost of failure. So these students are increasing their chances of winning and reducing the cost of failure.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

There are four teachers that work in the evening that teach the courses for English, math, science, and social studies. The students move through their courses online and at their own pace, while physically attending school in the evenings in a lab setting.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

News , and is singled out for its high reading and math achievement, as well as its relatively narrow equity gaps among different ethnic and socioeconomic groups in academic performance. I’ve defined it as using your skill set to encounter new and complex situations. In my old district, Lawrence Public Schools, We used ST Math.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Amazon’s latest misstep is the abrupt, and still unexplained, shuttering of TenMarks, a math and writing software startup it purchased in 2013 and announced in 2018 it would close in the following year, leading to a lot of frustrated, Twittering teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. students placed in the middle of the pack, scoring slightly above average on reading and science and a little below in math. And the Americans? Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

While we believe that it is essential for all students to be proficient in math, literacy, and the sciences, we believe that that is not enough. Students also need a rich set of social and cognitive skills that span beyond any given discipline.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. PARCC and SBAC may have convinced many educators that keyboarding is a critical, granular skill, but it can’t be taught by a once-a-week tech lab session of 10-15 minutes. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Game playing develops reading skills. Suddenly, Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice take on a whole new importance: What Math Standard Expects. Make failure fun. What Game Delivers.

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