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. Give your students a short writing assignment and give ChatGPT the same one, then have your students compare them and talk about the differences.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them. Lessons learned: Confidence affects effort.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. Popularity: OG/MSL is the most popular dyslexia/reading intervention in the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. How would you describe it?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. You can read the full report, including the other five suggestions, here. During these live meetings, the authors write, educators should pay attention to and support student well-being.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I want my students to write every day. Website: www.otus.com.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

None of these promotions came with special training or additional coaching; I wasn't even told to read any books in preparation. No one told me about the ugly parts of people management, like having to write folks up or design and implement support plans. When I got home, I was tapped out.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Over the last two-and-a-half years, students’ math and reading scores saw a historic decline, according to the results of a Congressionally-mandated test—known as the “nation’s report card.” The results show plummeting scores for math and reading. Reading scores declined by three points for both grades.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

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). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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Education Motivation Failure Attention 207

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. The time put Ruiz in 11th place. Im here to help!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade. This isnt a silver-bullet story, they write. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable?

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

I teach four sections of a reading seminar for first time freshman who have low MAP reading scores from eighth grade. As a first step, I decided to morph a writing unit that I've taught for the past two years to let students take the lead. When kids trust that their teachers believe in them, they thrive.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Listen to the conversation using the player on this page, or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. At the after party I help them with some of the reading. I condense some of the reading and do it orally. So there should be failure in all of our classes. And then I get feedback and I try again.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Amid my anxiety, I could not read the room during classwide discussions. I felt self-conscious about my failures every day. I write down the anticipated student responses to know when I hear what will allow me to assess student understanding. My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.” In younger grades, competency-based acceleration strategies focus largely on reading/writing, phonic development, and the ability to read for learning and comprehension.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“It is my great hope that our nation will commit to educating our youth about civics, and to helping young people understand their crucial role as informed, active citizens in our nation,” she writes. “I And she figured that games are not only fun and engaging, but they allow for greater agency and more room for failure, according to Dubé.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I read an entire book on derailed college presidencies , with dozens of cases of ethical lapses, and found hardly a reference to apologizing. These days, there is frequent talk of teaching students to take risks and be entrepreneurial, and it is important for leaders to show students how to learn and grow from failure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

For example, if your student, Korella, is reading twenty wpm slower than the rest of her second-grade classmates, CBA can’t tell the teacher if that’s because she doesn’t like reading, finds the books boring, or has a physical issue that interferes with reading. Students write a short two-four minute piece.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“This summer presents a perfect time for districts to pilot new strategies not usually in their repertoire, and instead try to rebuild something different,” such as enrichment and other targeted programs aimed at smaller groups, the authors write. “I

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. One of the many benefits of using digital textbooks is users can write in them. Read this left to right, starting at the file’s root location and then drilling down into the file folders. There are too many.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Amazon’s latest misstep is the abrupt, and still unexplained, shuttering of TenMarks, a math and writing software startup it purchased in 2013 and announced in 2018 it would close in the following year, leading to a lot of frustrated, Twittering teachers.

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Educational Technologies Technology Education Failure 151

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. I can start him out with a text closer to his reading level to regain some confidence and give him a sense of accomplishment.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. So, are there collateral effects where kids are motivated to read, write, learn math—so they get better at the game? Take a classic game like chess: you can play it your entire life and never perfect it.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

This role also has me reading around 20 articles a day and attempting to synthesize what I learned in some meaningful way. Once you finish your 30-minutes of iReady Reading, then you can take a break for a bit.” I use names like: “SUBMIT: Paper” and “READ: Chapter 4,” in an attempt to make it was clear as possible what is required.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

No matter the class, that teacher–be s/he history, literacy, social studies, math, reading, writing, or tech–reminds students of the right way to keyboard. This is accomplished by addressing basic and academic vocabulary across all subjects, whether students are in history, science, math, or reading.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Pedagogic experts have spent an enormous amount of time attempting to unravel the definition of ‘educated’ It used to be the 3 R’s–reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Strive to be clear when speaking and writing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Read academic research about how games are making a positive difference in the classroom. Research published in the International Journal of Communication found that teenagers who played games performed better in math, reading, and science. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. I felt like a failure. There wasn’t a bulleted list I could recall from any of the teacher strategy books I had read. I sought out gray boxes at the end of chapters with a “Try This” heading.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?” Luis looks at his paper and reads what he wrote, “I think that Reconstruction was a failure because of the Black Codes.” Perhaps it's that sitting in a circle reading from a paper no longer represents the pinnacle of thoughtful debate. Henry starts. No explanation.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Below are some of the lessons and resources that I wish I knew of when I first went on the job market—a combination of the academic texts you read in school along with practical tools that have been essential to practicing instructional design in the real world. To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

You can listen to the interview in the player above or read the full transcript here. ” When Metacognition Is Off One place we commonly see inaccurate monitoring is when students study by repeatedly reading material, giving themselves the false impression that they know the information well as a result. It might be difficult.

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