Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.” The results show plummeting scores for math and reading. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019.

Math

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact? This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

Teaching

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?

Failure

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. Students who are struggling with the math concepts work them through using visual modeling (as well as traditional pen-and-paper).

Math

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.

Math

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.

Teachers

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. Venit predicts colleges will be experiencing what he calls the math shark wave of students for at least the next 10 years.

Students

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. They can create a video of their project, explaining what they did.

Failure

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.

Education

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

Failure

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.

Educational Technologies

Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The financial risk of entering higher education was already high, precisely because of the cost of failure. Western Governors University and Utah State University have created low-risk online pathways for students who need math, writing and pre-requisites. These potential students see tremendous risk, and they’re paralyzed.

Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer.

Activities

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Literacy skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing, can be difficult to support because students can fall on such a broad spectrum.

Reading

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

These often take the form of short, teacher-led or online lessons; students learn about how the brain grows with effort, complete short writing exercises, and share what they learned with peers. They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. At my last school in San Jose, Calif.,

Beliefs

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.,”

Exams

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A student who struggles with writing may have the chance to show their understanding through a Minecraft tutorial. Or, we have a math teacher who uses Minecraft as an assessment. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." We're focused on those game-learning principles.

Game-Based Learning

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Even in the face of new generative AI tools that can write code, understanding how computers work and how we can communicate with them through code will still be vitally important. If we do, then I think there’s a real chance that, within a decade, the math class of today will feel like the distant past. That’s not playful.

Schools

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer.

Activities

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. So there should be failure in all of our classes. At the after party I help them with some of the reading.

Failure

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is a class where I try to help students move from a rigid, “there’s only one way to do it and there’s always one correct answer” approach to math into a more nuanced view. I can say with certainty that, based on 15 weeks of observing my students present, write, work, and grow, nobody should have earned a failing grade.

Feedback

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. No matter the class, that teacher–be s/he history, literacy, social studies, math, reading, writing, or tech–reminds students of the right way to keyboard. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure.

Teachers

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Its goal was to make access to algebra, a gateway to more advanced math classes, standardized and thus more equitable.

Essay

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“For some classes, teachers may use a drone for flying as an incentive or for basic coding practice, while others have the students plot out equations, using the drones to study math. We also did one drone lesson for student writing. Alex writes for CDW’s Tech magazines and websites. by Alexander Slagg. He lives in Chicago.

Learning Tools

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. Math Mosaics Using colored tiles or paper, kids can create geometric patterns.

Art

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2018

“We can’t wait years because these kids need to get college and career ready, and we’re not doing that by over-scripting lessons,” says Ormiston, a former classroom teacher who now works out of Chicago as a consultant, spending her time speaking, working with schools and writing. Solution Tree Kowalski also a good listener.

Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Pedagogic experts have spent an enormous amount of time attempting to unravel the definition of ‘educated’ It used to be the 3 R’s–reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Strive to be clear when speaking and writing.

Critical Thinking

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. You hear people say, “I’m no good at math” or “I’m no good at science.” So, are there collateral effects where kids are motivated to read, write, learn math—so they get better at the game?

Game-Based Learning

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

For example, if they always think that they are bad at math, they must fact check this belief by physically looking at old math papers to show themselves that they have done well sometime in the past in math. Instead of seeing a bad grade as a failure, frame it as an opportunity to learn and improve.

Failure

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Research published in the International Journal of Communication found that teenagers who played games performed better in math, reading, and science. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. Actively fostering this state in our schools could have dramatic effects. Don’t just take my word for it.

Gamification

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Those who research in this area write for others working in the area. So, when someone writes an informative, engaging overview filled with examples of how what’s known about motivation can be applied in face-to-face and online courses, it’s a gift—to be appreciated and used! She writes what she knows with commitment.

Motivation

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

about half the teachers who responded said their [Massachusetts] districts had adopted scripted programs in math and writing – and 60 percent in phonics and spelling – which reduce a teacher’s autonomy in instruction. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. Clarke Fowler found that .

Active Learning

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

A former art teacher, White is now an education consultant who criss-crosses the continent giving workshops, coaching teachers in her local Saskatchewan district and writing books. Experimentation or risk-taking in a writing class means that students generate an idea they haven’t used before, or come up with new perspectives or opinions.

Testing

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The first time a declaration along similar lines was made by a student visiting the writing studio, I was taken aback. “Of Students in the latter group would see mistakes and failures as a demoralizing reflection of their limited ability and as a signal to give up. Of course, not,” I answered. What makes you think that?”

Teaching

From the Pond

APRIL 28, 2025

Building Confident Estimators in Kindergarten: Making Estimation Visible and Playful Estimation often feels like one of those fuzzy math skills both for young children and for teachers. These are not signs of failure they're important clues that children need more experiences with quantity, comparison, and trust in their own thinking.

Math

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The act of writing a computer program requires you to think about how to create sequences which are step by step procedures on how to solve a given problem. These skills go way beyond solving math problems, As there may be a solid numerical value, say $5MM to a homelessness problem. The same applies to computer science.

Science

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers and students have to take time out to do the screening, in addition to other assessments (state and quarterly/trimester reading and math assessments, plus additional testing for special ed students). 23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000).

Disabilities