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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president. Years ago, I recall participating in a multi-day strategic planning session. These charges are critical and should guide all day-to-day efforts in the advancement of the institutional mission and service to your students.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Changing the structure of school: Teachers as project managers, students as professionals When schools participate in the World Bridge Program, they commit to fundamentally changing the way students—and teachers—learn. Instead teachers participate in project-based learning at the same time as the student. THIS IS THE RIGHT WORK.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

Searching for Unobtanium Discover the story behind materials, failures, and practice materials characterization methods in the USNA EE labs. Tuition and Expenses All students selected to participate will be required to provide a nominal fee which will include room and board, meals, as well as a variety of materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Determining where educators draw the line for failure, whether that’s with students of color, low-income students, immigrant students or some other group, determines educational outcomes and equity opportunities for the future. “A

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Last year, Caitlyn and the rest of her class participated in a daylong simulation-slash-competition in partnership with the German business juggernaut SAP. We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. Crisis averted.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure. Alef also provides students with an opportunity for deeper application after the basic concept is understood.”.

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

This recent study had various pairings of autistic, non-autistic and mixed-group participants and had them do two tasks. However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. Participants were able to communicate equally as efficiently with their perspective groups as long as they weren’t mixed.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

citizens to understand their government and participate in democracy. “It I feel so strongly about this topic because I’ve seen first-hand how vital it is for all citizens to understand our Constitution and our unique system of government, and participate actively in their communities.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

When both teachers and students participate the same way they would in a face-to-face setting, amazing things happen in the online world—just as often as they do in the traditional classroom. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure. Louis when I first heard the term moral contradictions.

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