Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Further, when we relax the assumption that we are all separate selves , it becomes clearer that all participants’ behaviors are embedded in and conditioned by society and the environment. We become less distracted and more present when we turn off Zoom’s self-view and quiet our built-in self-view.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Further, when we relax the assumption that we are all separate selves , it becomes clearer that all participants’ behaviors are embedded in and conditioned by society and the environment. We become less distracted and more present when we turn off Zoom’s self-view and quiet our built-in self-view.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful society." The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." "(L)earning is the human activity which least needs manipulation by others.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The success or failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs. Or not occurring.

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Cook County EM Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

and Jabaley discuss techniques to help optimize intubation and first-pass success in difficult physiologic situations such as hypoxia, hypotension, profound metabolic acidosis, and right ventricular failure. Mosier et al.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. But this new study notes that even at schools where coding courses are offered, participation can be unequal.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. But we have to be safe.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. The beauty of self-assessment lies in the empowerment it provides learners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This hack is great for promoting independent thinking and increases classroom participation! Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. Hack 5: Nurture growth If you never fail, you’re not trying new things.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Early STEM exposure–and successes or failures in STEM learning–can often make or break a child’s willingness to participate in STEM learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms. How can we develop a better school culture and make education a positive experience for all of our students? But what if… What if they loved learning?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The problem is this: District leaders hear that teachers need more tech-based professional development when, in reality, the ask is much more nuanced: they are pleading with the education system for more time to plan, participate in training, experiment with new technologies and share best practices.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I hear over and over that the main thing students are excited about is belonging to something: 40 percent of GSE athletes don’t participate in any other school activities but find community and belonging in esports. Some students playing esports have never been on a team before because they aren’t physically able to participate.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As each of us eventually learns, life isn’t as simple as right or wrong, failure or success. I know that mistakes get us one step closer to the solution, and as I tell my students, that’s what life is about, too. So much of life happens in the grey. It’s the same way with math. Sometimes it takes a while to get to the right answer.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2018

Between its two events in April 2018, FIRST Championship saw 1,400 teams of students ages six to 18, and teams participated in district, regional, and expo events to earn a place at this global event. Hosted by FIRST , FIRST Championship is the annual culmination of robotics challenges for student teams from around the world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The trustee approach has the advantage of allowing school directors to consider all available information, some of which might not be widely known by the general public because, for example, they aren’t participating in board work sessions that allow school directors to dive deeply into all aspects of an issue.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. I participate in a podcast called AI Café , hosted by BAM Radio, where we’ve talked about a plethora of topics connected to AI in education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Earlier this summer, I traveled to Dallas to participate in a training on design thinking led by staff from Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design , better known as the d.school, which pioneered the approach. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Is It All Worth It?

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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. By acknowledging this, the North America Scholastic Esports Federation built high-school-level STEM curricula.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Students often learn best by doing and by being active participants in the learning process. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). Focus on hands-on learning While taking notes is often needed when introducing and teaching new concepts, it is not necessarily fun.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Accel, who earlier invested $7 million in Series B, also participated in this round. Thus reducing their fear of failure, and creating what we like to call fearless learners” said Arpit Jain, CEO and co-founder, SplashLearn. San Francisco based Owl Ventures is the largest edtech sector-focused venture capital firm in the world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity. That did not work for me at all.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Some activities are low-stakes, some are linked to evaluative assessments of their work, and one is entirely merit-based and influenced by their participation in the course. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. We want you to fail productively.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Weve been supporting student devices for long enough to realize there is a major increase in failure rates beyond four years, said Eli Maloley, Vivacitys chief executive. The challenge facing districts has some edtech leaders trying to extend the life cycle of devices and wondering how long they can defer replacement costs.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

The role of leadership is important as well, and over time we began to think about the conditions that allow for excitement, experimentation, failure, and revision to occur. In the school environment, teachers have the greatest and most direct impact on students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

For instance, questions like, “Have you ever let a fear of failure hold you back from something new? Enriching Lives One Basketball at a Time The powerful influence of the “Talk it Out Basketball” program was evident in the transformative experiences of the participants. How did you overcome it?”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions. The theory was if we wanted respect from students, we had to communicate that we were no-nonsense educators who wanted conformity. That did not work for me at all.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. But now, especially for asynchronous learning, much of the information about participation (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

years, 3 institutions ( @harvard , @mit , @stanford ), 250 courses, over *250,000* participants. Reich, of MIT, has incorporated the experience into a new book that is due out in September, called “ Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education.” “If New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I do not hold to the essentialist thinking that puts teachers into categories of “will participate in professional development” and “will not participate in professional development,” but rather, I follow the context principle as discussed in Todd Rose’s “The End of Average.” There are so many dehumanizing workplaces.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it. But when they build a catapult and it doesn't work, they think, "It's cool. I'll just rebuild it. I'll just change this."

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. How does this look in practice? Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

How startlingly pressing concerns over mental health and well-being are for college enrollment and participation, according to one of the researchers. Failure to solve the problem would be a significant loss in economic opportunity for the country, she says. The most important lessons so far?

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