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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Well, we want to see kids asking lots and lots of questions. It’s a time when kids are asking questions and invited into learning experiences that create curiosity.

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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. This perception of intellectual “haves” and “have nots” is one that Lang Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, recently tested.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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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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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? And by then it’s too late.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2018

If you’re considering becoming an online ESL teacher, ask yourself the following four questions. Independent Teacher Do you have an arsenal of battle-tested lesson plans and exercises, proven to be successful in an online classroom? Where’s the Money? If so you may be set up for success in an independent setting.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Problems take the form of a question such as, “How might we design a classroom habitat for plants and animals to co-exist?” From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Is It All Worth It?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. We have the third-highest average ACT score of states that test at least half of their graduates.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are some you can look into–and all online: Easy CBM Educreations –video a whiteboard explanation of how students are completing a task (app) Edulastic –formative assessments; work on any devices (app) Flip — record a video question from your desktop; add attachments; students respond from the app with their answer Flubaroo (app) (..)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” Eyler: That is the perennial question. They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science?

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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. Sensing the Future – being open to new ideas, solutions, and processes, and testing them quickly. This requires flexibility in thinking and a willingness to admit mistakes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

They will not need to pass multiple choice tests or regurgitate facts to be successful in 2035. Testing new models: Develop and test new school models. The benefit here is that these schools can work outside the system to test and reveal formerly inconceivable models for education.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

The state around her is grappling with similar questions. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. In these systems, students are automatically enrolled in algebra — unless they choose to opt out — after they achieve high scores on standard tests.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

He chalks that up to the fact that many professors using the model don’t test whether students are actually learning the material presented in lecture videos, and so some students who skip the videos or watch them on double-speed arrive in class unprepared for the activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Welcome their questions and visits. Failure is a learning tool. In life, failure happens.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

I questioned my place inside the school, wondering what role I was really playing in students' lives. The campaign became draining for my family and tested the values that I chose to uphold and run on. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure. It was as though I was a puppet and Geppetto at the same time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. My students peppered their team’s mentor with questions, looking to gain a better understanding of the software or test out hypotheses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Being able to provide specific, meaningful feedback about student performance in these learning outcomes came after a lot of failures on my part. A favorite failure occurred while facilitating a wellness event for second graders. Even with them, the tests were still really hard.) Many years back, I heard Alfie Kohn, an.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge Time required: 1.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This may seem like an obvious question, but why do games engage kids more than traditional teaching methods that emphasize content? A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. But it’s very hard to create tests that measure 21st-century skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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Gaggle Speaks

AUGUST 26, 2015

The ability to provide services during power failures and network outages doesn’t happen by accident. Last week we were put to the test, and passed. Here are three questions you should ask a prospective edtech provider regarding their levels of service: Do you have high uptime goals even in cases of natural disasters?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Take Chances, Make Mistakes and Get Messy—Just Not in the Classroom Throughout multiple panel sessions, educators came back to the question of where technology belongs in schools, and how to work collaboratively with educators to create new tools. I think having a good testing environment is very important,” Mill says.

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Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 120

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Failure is a learning tool.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

But surprisingly, the most notable failure was in graduate programs, which performed far worse than their undergraduate counterparts, even though they are preparing prospective teachers for the same job. Programs that cant add that time should require math content tests, the report says. Not everyone believes that is enough.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

As part of that failure, 80 percent of Lightspan's employees were cut or left due to poor strategy and communication.“Lightspan But for new entrepreneurs, the process can be full of surprises that test one’s patience. Lightspan employees never understood why they were bought,” Brekhus told a crowd Wednesday.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. Problem Solving: The ability to identify the key questions in a problem, develop possible paths to a solution, and follow through with a solution.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. We don’t expect to solve deep questions around policies and accountability in education, but we do debate these topics and apply our knowledge during in-class activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. They listen to students as they are teaching, maybe through a backchannel or questions, hear where the lesson plan isn’t working, and adjust as needed. I had a 4th grader once. They are committed to a student’s success.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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