eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

While many of my physics and astrophysics students at Chaparral High School here in Scottsdale Unified School District are already science enthusiasts, I understand how important it is to continue to find new ways to keep them inspired and engaged. Keep learning relevant It goes without saying that science is all around us.

STEM

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? We actually wrote a post for our Teaching Center’s blog with that title, “Is teaching an art or a science?” Just how do humans learn? I think it’s both.

Art

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. When my class, who didn’t see themselves as STEAM teachers, had the freedom to tinker without a fear of failure, they became far more eager (and better equipped) to teach those concepts in their own future classrooms.

Teaching

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching.

Grades

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

Academic Integrity

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. The continuing failure to meet the needs of a growing number of students will demand different approaches and practices taught in Colleges of Education. Jamie Candee, CEO, Edmentum. •

Failure

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

Failure

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

Failure

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. They are driven, motivated and informed. How do we recruit and retain a diverse student body in elective STEM classes such as computer science and engineering? Industry debates about the STEM jobs pipeline.

Science

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. Deak ( with corresponding app ) take the science and adapt it to a student-friendly language. A question to kick-off "Mindset Monday."

Science

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. the end users). Is It All Worth It?

Failure

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? Many studies had been conducted in university labs.

Teaching

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. Gameful Design. That is a key part of this.”

Failure

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

Motivation

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

According to the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences, this term can be used when there is a rationale, based on research findings, that the practice is likely to improve student outcomes, with ongoing efforts to examine such effects. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. link] Institute of Education Sciences.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

Motivation

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

A nod from a top science magazine to the game many parents wish their kids had never heard of should catch the attention of teachers. What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. Make failure fun. Tell me stuff about them.

Writing

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

“While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. Nobody here would disagree that supporting teachers/motivating students is the first priority #nyedtechweek. In that sense, edtech is not the answer.”

Educational Technologies

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter.

Game-Based Learning

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

Schools

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. Research published in the International Journal of Communication found that teenagers who played games performed better in math, reading, and science.

Gamification

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2017

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before. In the rapid prototyping step, students quickly try things out in order to find out what works and learn from failures.

Education

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. Keeping learners motivated and confident when faced with these cognitive challenges means connecting with learners on a personal level. Science, 331, 772–775. doi:10.1126/science.1199327 Karpicke, J.

Education

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

That was the situation I found myself in one day last year when teaching a unit on the basics of HTML for a pilot course on “Exploring Computer Science,” as part of Mississippi’s CS4MS initiative , a program aimed at exposing all students in our state to computer science. The results simply astounded me!

Motivation

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s not about zeros and ones, or math and science. Even if your students only enjoy sports or other non-tech activities, you can still relate these things to coding so they get excited and are motivated to continue. Getting to know each child’s learning style will help you better understand what motivates them.

Teaching

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.

Testing

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An Education Week survey found that the vast majority of educators believe that a growth-oriented mindset can help improve students’ motivation, commitment and engagement in learning. They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. At my last school in San Jose, Calif., Gupta, I get it.

Beliefs

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

Teaching

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing more achievement tests and public education began to focus more on raising standardized test scores in math and science, which led to decreasing time spent in the very courses that instill, teach and develop creativity and personal identity. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

Art

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. Face-to-face time, whether in person or via video conference, can help make the course experience feel more personalized and motivating. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete. Use the power of peer pressure.

Assignments

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Thus, learning objectives were reframed as quests—a staple of many role playing games—challenging kids to design a safe transport into the earth’s crust during science class or simulate court cases during civics. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students.

Skills

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

To do this means more systematic application of learning science and the evidence regarding both learning at scale and on an individual level, within the always-present constraints of regulation, economics, usability, and more. In addition, learning environments have typically assumed that failure is the learner’s fault.

Education

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

That’s the premise of the Flex Program being piloted by Susannah Johnson in Honolulu, Hawaii, which seeks to leverage the intrinsic motivation of students to build the necessary skills for success in school and beyond. Put your students in the driver’s seat: When students drive learning, they can do much more than we may realize.

Gamification

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. This is accomplished by addressing basic and academic vocabulary across all subjects, whether students are in history, science, math, or reading. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. Try, fail, try again.

Teachers