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 COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. This ownership is important as it fosters motivation, leading to greater engagement and investment in their own education.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

I saw the push for STEM education force students to choose either arts or technology for the slots that remained. And when that led to low enrollment for arts courses, I witnessed my colleagues become demoralized as their courses were cut and they were given sections of STEM courses to teach, unprepared.

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. Games Make Us More Social Companies like Google are finding that SEL skills are more important to students’ success than the mastery of STEM subjects alone.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 154

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

And the motivation for institutional change is student needs. We need to engage students to think about innovation on the same institutional scale that administrators do, so that when we invite students to participate we are speaking with the same understandings Visibility and Relevance Students aren’t motivated to participate.

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Motivation Students Failure Participation 121

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance. Industry debates about the STEM jobs pipeline. They are driven, motivated and informed. It is fun to work with these kids.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2022

There have been stunning valuation declines, with brand name failures like Robolex, once acclaimed as the “future of education”—seeing half its stock value vanish in the past year and with investors predicting more tough times ahead for the company’s shareholders. A lot of edtech spending today stems from parents’ fear of learning loss.

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STEM Failure Motivation Educational Technologies 181

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes. This ownership is important as it fosters motivation, leading to greater engagement and investment in their own education.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Accelerated Reader , a product that started more than 30 years ago, still motivates kids to read. Another problem the industry has created stems from those monolithic all-in-one systems the big publishers created.

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Education Textbooks Blended Learning Failure 143

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.

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Education Failure Art Grades 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Specifically, in my classroom, we use the texts to analyze character traits and character motivation, and to discuss how characters’ actions affect outcomes. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part. Have more text ideas?

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

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.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

A study released last year by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly half of the nation’s teacher training programs failed to insure that their candidates were STEM-capable. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. Try, fail, try again. Make this a strategy in the classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

A couple of months ago I keynoted a STEM conference in Syracuse, New York. Our teachers deserve specific, concrete instructional (re)design strategies and techniques; short-cycle feedback loops; ongoing conversation with teaching peers about successes and failures; and long-term, follow-up activities that ensure implementation success.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy. That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

With over 20 years classroom experience, Tricia is all about “putting the STEAM back in STEM.” Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. They are excited by new possibilities, and learn from their failures.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 137

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. It’s often said that online courses offer students increased flexibility—supposedly a positive quality.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

Other times, they idle with confusion or waning motivation. Teams of students are asked to complete tasks they have little, if any, familiarity with beyond the short instructions we provide. Sometimes, the students succeed. It's how they react to any of these moments that helps instill the spirit of leadership and design in each of them.

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Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). Beyond that, even if not first showcased as talent, skills do emerge if effort, motivated by a growth mindset, is present.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). Beyond that, even if not first showcased as talent, skills do emerge if effort, motivated by a growth mindset, is present.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 194

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Sports Reading Club - resilience, motivation. Technology Reading Club - impulse control, self motivation. Art Reading Club - self motivation. His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey.

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Teacher Toms Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

I mean, he represents the pinnacle of the much ballyhooed STEM (or STEAM) schooling that we hear so much about. At least if judged by today's productivity standards, da Vinci was a classic failure-to-launch dreamer, full of high falutin ideas, but obviously without the grit or rigor to pull himself up by his own bootstraps or whatever.

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Failure History STEM Motivation 86

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Image Credit: Honeywell My motivation to apply for HESA stemmed from a burning desire to connect content with my students in the most meaningful way possible. Assuming there will be failure along the way, as there is with all teaching and learning, we’ll embrace those struggles, learn from them, improve and move forward.

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Teachers Motivation Failure Knowledge 143