Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. Inquiry about integrity begins with the question Does this work accurately represent the students skills and understandings?”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. She taught me to model resilience and curiosity—traits I now pass along to my students.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. She taught me to model resilience and curiosity—traits I now pass along to my students.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." In my experience, " teaching " can only lead to learning when the learner is actively wondering about the questions being answered. for their own good."

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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. self-verbalization/questioning. Or not occurring. I am a change agent. teacher clarity.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? Lenhoff: Its a really good question. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. EdSurge: Lets talk a bit about Detroits position as a model of the absenteeism crisis. What happens now?

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Cook County EM Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

Using ultrasound has been shown to significantly decrease rates of treatment failure for I&Ds.1 If the mass is in a vascular area or there's a question of deeper involvement, consider a CT or specialist input, especially for sensitive areas such as the perineum or neck.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Too often, students–and teachers–believe learning comes from success when in truth, it’s as likely to be the product of failure. Here are ten ways to teach through failure: Use the Mulligan Rule. The teacher won’t be surprised by a failure or a question they can’t answer. Revise your mindset.

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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. How do we help students pursue goals they’ve set for themselves and pursue questions they’ve identified as important to them. We know how important it is for kids academically and socio-emotionally.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

The site operates on a culture of inquiry, curiosity, and remaining open to failure. Allows for failure 8. Sparks questions. In all, 8 principles guide the learning offered on Brilliant. Effective learning: 1. Cultivates curiosity 3. Is active 4. Is applicable 5. Is community driven 6. Doesn’t discriminate 7.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. The answers to these questions are likely reflections of our past experiences in school systems. Stagnation or Progress.

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Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When speaking, students should be clear, concise, and prepared to ask deeper questions. Hack 3: Keep it real Interest-driven learning empowers students to independently question, explore, and solve real-world problems. Educators can model curiosity by introducing diverse perspectives, offering choice, and asking proactive questions.

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STEM Failure Communication Classroom Management 318

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

We can question portfolio decisions in-depth. As leaders, we can control growth. We can push back on our business as they ask for more, faster. We can grow carefully and methodically. We can interview with more precision. We can push the educational market to change their offerings to match placement needs.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Even though we are on a campus full of colleagues, we rarely have time to walk down the hall to ask questions or share best practices. Failure is part of learning. Most teachers enter this profession because they genuinely love to learn; however, many of us get into the classroom and feel isolated in our work.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Here’s the kicker: if they aren’t able to create a working prototype in the allotted time, don’t see that as a failure. With the example of the book holder, questions to discuss could be: What materials work best to keep the book from slipping? This question introduces friction and material properties into the discussion.

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Science STEM Failure Discussions 321

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

If we never realize our visions, we should, at least, miss the mark in wholly new ways that future scholars can assess as unique failures, rather than retrograde re-treads. As a result, there can be uneasiness in raising the question. There is more than a little bit of data available to inform a more enlightened discourse.

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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. By encouraging students to delve deeply into their work and the feedback they receive, these three questions pave the way for enhanced understanding, growth, and academic success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The engineering process actually involves several steps, from asking questions to determining if the student’s design solves the problem. Students should be allowed to ask questions and create as many iterations as possible. First, Keith said educators need to make sure they understand what engineering actually is.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. In pairs or groups, students can compare their answers to an answer key or a strong exemplar and work together to check, correct, and discuss their questions.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. At 97%, the next volunteer was able to take some educated guesses and get most of the comprehension questions right.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

But to drive this transformation, CIOs must challenge the status quo and must be comfortable with failure, Shears said. In pursuit of transformation, CIOs must be comfortable with failure. You must challenge, ‘We don’t do that here,’” he said. You have to become the leader who challenges that. It’s not an overnight success story.”

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Failure Culture Skills Questions 253

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Taken alone, this statement might have led me to question whether the recent rise of technology integration in schools across the country is a smart idea. Next page: What makes the difference between tech success and failure. After all, like many educators, I have more than a passing interest in the subject.

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Failure Schools Study Skills 272

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Last year we engaged Evergreen Education Group on a journey around the world to answer that question. Authors’ Note: We’re often asked by educators, “what impact do you see with Google technology in schools?” During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits.

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Failure Schools Study Questions 279

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 176

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 8, 2019

We complain incessantly about their work ethic, their commitment to their classwork and homework, and their failure to find interest or meaning in the learning tasks we put before them. Questions. What should be my (our) guiding questions? We’re so quick to bemoan the lack of ethics in our students. They cheat. standpoint.

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Questions Ethics Failure Students 111

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

And when John hit me with rapid-fire comprehension questions, it was clear that I had derived no meaning from the text. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. At 97%, the next volunteer was able to take some educated guesses and get most of the comprehension questions right.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Dan Meyer: That's a great question with a very contested answer. So then, when it comes to the assumptions behind personalized learning, what do you question as the biggest, most potentially damaging assumption? The biggest assumption I question is the degree to which technology replaces the word that sets off alarm bells (“teachers”).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Well, let’s see what innovation theory has to say about this question. But right now, they only serve about 2 percent to 4 percent of U.S. So, could microschools eventually become the new normal in schooling? To start, we first need to take a quick dive into the history of the steel industry (and yes, and I promise it relates).

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Education Failure History Questions 303

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images. These don’t have to be groundbreaking or deeply insightful questions.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

It’s interesting to hear how common it is for people to answer that question in finite terms — that they either have a mind for it or they don’t. The basic concepts are easy to grasp. Try asking someone if they were good at math as a child.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Fortunately, AI has the capability to absorb vast bodies of text and come up with meaningful questions as long as it is steered correctly. Teachers can provide ChatGPT with their lessons by uploading them as PDFs or text files and then asking it to create quizzes and tests that include both objective and subjective questions.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Where it gets more complicated is the question of indirect power. The truth is one individual school board director has no power—they only have the power to take any official action if they are part of a quorum.

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Schools Local Government Failure Communication 283

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2018

If you’re considering becoming an online ESL teacher, ask yourself the following four questions. Independent teachers will ultimately decide who they want to take on as students; the diversity and size of their potential student pools will be determined by the success or failure of their own advertising campaigns. Where’s the Money?

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Questions Teaching Failure Discussions 132

eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership skills require people to look inward and find self-confidence that will not only guide them toward successes but focus them through failures—an inevitable part of all leadership positions. The best way to solicit feedback and opinions is being willing to ask questions. Related: How to be a collaborative leader.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Surprisingly, the scientists building AI systems don’t have a good answer to this question.

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