eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

Failure

eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Now more than ever, students need access to the tools and resources that can help them succeed in their college courses – and for many current and rising college students, ALEKS MathReady is precisely the tool that they need,” said Kathleen McMahon, VP of Portfolio Management for Science, Engineering & Mathematics at McGraw Hill.

Math

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. East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. And the Americans?

Testing

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

Study

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. In a science class, risk-taking might be making a hypothesis that goes beyond the surface level and thinking about what might happen and then committing to that idea. We would never ask in a P.E.

Testing

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. A disclaimer for all educators: During my testing, ChatGPT, Claude, Le Chat, and other AI tools would routinely generate rudimentary questions in response to my prompts.

Quizzes

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APRIL 3, 2025

The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

Academic Integrity

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium.

Failure

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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? Many studies had been conducted in university labs.

Teaching

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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. The National Science Foundation gave out grants to support it at colleges. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

Teaching

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

Disabilities

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APRIL 18, 2025

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. Our summer program will be a great start to your career in science and engineering. News & World Report.

STEM

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. How do we recruit and retain a diverse student body in elective STEM classes such as computer science and engineering? The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance.

Science

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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.

Lecturing

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. In her first few years using design thinking, Catherine Scott, a fifth grade science teacher at Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas felt that implementing the entire process in a lengthy project format was overwhelming. Is It All Worth It?

Failure

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APRIL 20, 2020

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program at the high school in their small Kansas town. Those early experiences taught Kate about engineering and science, but she also learned about teamwork, communication and the value of supporting those around you. They don't see it as a failure.

STEM

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

In the final version, the framework recommends starting algebra in ninth grade for most students, which many worry will make students less competitive for college or push some students away from science careers. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

Math

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Originally inspired by the efficiency of factories and certainty of science, the mass education movement largely sought to standardize and sterilize schools nationwide. 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.

Failure

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MARCH 31, 2023

In the 1960s, the federal government started pushing more achievement tests and public education began to focus more on raising standardized test scores in math and science, which led to decreasing time spent in the very courses that instill, teach and develop creativity and personal identity.

Art

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. Being able to provide specific, meaningful feedback about student performance in these learning outcomes came after a lot of failures on my part.

Grades

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JUNE 9, 2019

The New York Hall of Science became the second largest Maker Faire. In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. The only “test” is whether the thing works. Failure only happens when you quit. It’s been tough.

Fairness

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New national test scores, released Monday, reveal that the disruption may have been even more severe than already anticipated. 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.”

Math

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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. The National Science Foundation gave out grants to support it at colleges. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

Teaching

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. You hear people say, “I’m no good at math” or “I’m no good at science.” But it’s very hard to create tests that measure 21st-century skills. And they can try on those roles and see what it feels like.

Game-Based Learning

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. The two main courses currently offered are engineering and industrial design.

High School

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Thus, learning objectives were reframed as quests—a staple of many role playing games—challenging kids to design a safe transport into the earth’s crust during science class or simulate court cases during civics. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway?

Skills

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate.

Educational Technologies

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Source: Hansen and Reich (2015) Bright Spots That Rekindle Hope Our report describes what we’ve learned from our failures, as well as promising equity-enhancing innovations and approaches. Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

Culture

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure. This kind of playful experimentation is essential in the classroom.

Schools

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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. While we believe that it is essential for all students to be proficient in math, literacy, and the sciences, we believe that that is not enough.

History

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

I also have colleagues who think it takes a special brain to understand tech (the same way students think about math and science)–one they don’t have. Test the tool. When I got my first computer, most people didn’t have one so I taught myself by testing, trying, failing, researching, or whatever worked.

Technology

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.

Critical Thinking

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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.”

Study

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Students love this game.

Activities

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Technology hasn’t been around long enough to beget standards that work for everyone (not withstanding ISTE’s herculean efforts), the set-in-stone of settled science. What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest.

Teachers

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JULY 10, 2019

After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. AWS Educate has released cloud badges for the following services: RoboMaker makes it easier to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale.

Education

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Students love this game. Thinking Games.

Activities