Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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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.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. Process feedback is vital in enhancing student learning by honing their metacognitive skills , guiding their efforts, boosting motivation, and fostering a growth mindset.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I 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. I think there is a tendency to see edtech as the savior of American education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says. And the online gradebooks that instantly alert family members to any low grade have made the downsides of letter grades even worse, he argues.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. ” I recognized that their intimidation did not come from the technology itself, but rather from a lack of confidence. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

The use of probeware and other data-collection technology is another way to reinforce key concepts being taught and to get students familiar with technologies they’ll experience in college labs and in STEM fields. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Set Goals With Positive Motivation According to Dr. Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Hull and fellow teacher, Pete Helfers, started to develop Otus with cofounder Andy Bluhm after establishing a 1:1 computing program and noticing how much time teachers had to spend on technology, instead of teaching. At the time, I was just getting into technology. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Administrators, technology leaders, classroom teachers, and educators in all roles have persevered as they taught each and every one of their students during a global pandemic. Time and resources are often a barrier to providing educators with critical learning opportunities that help them reduce students’ reading failure rate.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. Material targeted to their ability will allow them to feel like they’re making gains, and aligning that material with their interests will help motivate them to practice.

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Failure Motivation Assistive Technology Reading 200

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?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2023

Adaptability and Flexibility The world is constantly changing, and one of the most critical skills graduates can have is adaptability : being able to anticipate change, adjust accordingly, and keep up with new technologies or processes as needed. link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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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.”

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Most of those students are bright and energetic, highly capable students—they may even be extra motivated to succeed because of the hurdles they’ve had to overcome just to get into college. But we don’t tend to talk about the ugly details–the challenges, the failures, the frustrations. But they lack resources.

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Failure Students Motivation Communication 152

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In some cases we can force ourselves to pay attention if there’s an external motivator, like grades, but we’re not learning as much in those conditions as we would if there were other kinds of evidence-based activities and interactive strategies used. Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

At the same time, employers struggle to fill open positions for jobs that require more education than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree This paradox is the result of a market failure: Our education and training systems are increasingly both out of touch with employers’ needs and out of reach for young adults.

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Failure Motivation Evaluation Intelligence 142

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?

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

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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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. This increased motivation.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. In other words, techniques that revolve around how to motivate others to do a task need to be set aside to focus on better understanding and connecting with a human being.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This focus on individual students requires a high level of student autonomy and intrinsic motivation—which makes growth mindset a natural complement to personalized learning. It’s about trying different strategies, seeking out and making use of feedback, asking for help, and analyzing the reasons behind successes and failures.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Our goal this year is to support any teacher who is interested in bringing a robust understanding of the power grid or wind, solar or storage technologies to all of their students! –Peter Evans, CEO, Xtract One Technologies This school year we will see a continued focus on nurturing 21st century skills in the classroom. .

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Educational researchers very often do not have a strong motivation, having made a discovery, to take the next step and put it in a form that will diffuse.” If that happens with the Empirical Educator Project, we will consider it a failure and will not have another convening of the same type.”.

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Educational Technologies Technology Education Failure 102

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

With the advent of each new technology—like AI, automation, VR/AR, and nanotechnology—comes economic shifts that demand different skills from employees and creates new challenges for both employers and educators. We can’t walk away from technology use—not when it’s a mainstay of students’ daily lives and futures.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 154

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

With new technologies and opportunities for help outside the classroom, like private tutoring or AI, wealthier students are often better equipped than their peers to enter college. This motivates them to complete their classes and gives them a person they can trust throughout their time in college.

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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. Whether you're cooking or putting on a show or sewing—or creating some new technology to solve a problem—that’s all making.

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Education Failure Art Grades 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

I recently shared that story with Dr. Chip Donohue , founding director of the Technology in Early Childhood Center at Erikson Institute. They can act out different players, beyond just “good” or “bad,” and try on different roles to gain a deeper understanding of perspective, motivation and reaction. What is your first reaction?

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Attention Communication Failure Language 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Motivated to change this conversation and influence policy at the state and local levels, I ran for school board in 2021. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure. Still, I hoped that being the only teacher on the ballot and having a commitment to my community through service would push me to victory, regardless.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

A moment of inspiration came while observing my students as they played different types of games—they were fueled by various motivations. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning. My intent with this shift in practice was to get to know my students in a deeper way.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. Despite facing significant personal challenges that often kept her out of school, she remained resilient.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. Make failure fun. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Minecraft doesn’t have a plot so the storyline must come from the players’ imagination.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact. The mantra “learn from failure” turned out to be particularly important, although challenging to implement.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

The promise is that such small nudges can motivate recipients to get back on track and keep them from dropping out. Such research, he says, has shown the importance of sending messages when students have academic successes, not just when failure is on the horizon. But in some cases such efforts actually cause more harm than good.

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