Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

Failure 217

Failure Testing Beliefs Middle School 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. Game playing develops reading skills. Make failure fun. Again, think Legos. That’s fun.

Writing 199

Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2023

The skills required to succeed in your post-High School life, be it college, a vocational training program, the military, or a job, are surprisingly similar. Graduates looking to hit the ground running should be sure to cultivate a good balance of soft and hard skills.

Skills 186

Skills Failure Motivation Communication 186

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

The skills that K-12 and higher education students should know. Are students gaining the skills that one might need to eventually apply to one of those tech giants, if they chose to do so? Are students gaining the skills that one might need to eventually apply to one of those tech giants, if they chose to do so?

Skills 161

Skills Failure Writing Culture 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A student who struggles with writing may have the chance to show their understanding through a Minecraft tutorial. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." And that is one of the main pillars of game-like learning: fostering 21st-century skills.

Game-Based Learning 187

Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 187

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. Process feedback is vital in enhancing student learning by honing their metacognitive skills , guiding their efforts, boosting motivation, and fostering a growth mindset.

Feedback 363

Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it.

Writing 167

Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

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. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

Teaching 316

Teaching STEM Education Learning 316

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.

Education 328

Education Intelligence Failure Feedback 328

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. Projects ranged from writing songs and developing websites to creating artwork with poetry and coding video games.

Learning 277

Learning Failure Students Culture 277

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? 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.” This is where PBL and maker education intersect. Why maker education?

Curriculum 291

Curriculum Failure Essay Art 291

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. The goal of these videos was for students to “see” how their writing skills were progressing over time. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

Essay 203

Essay Failure Students Writing 203

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. I’ll give you ideas. Don’t be afraid to fail in front of students. In fact, you can’t. There are too many. Annotate a PDF.

Skills 167

Skills Failure Learning Knowledge 167

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

To build up the students’ confidence and skills, I started by having them program and design the KIBO robots on their own. Through their work with KIBO, the pre-service teachers discovered they already had more STEAM skills than they had initially realized. As the lessons progressed, we explored various uses of KIBO in the classroom.

Teaching 271

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 271

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

Collaborative Research 105

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 105

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.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

Collaborative Research 89

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 89

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? Learn about some of the study's key findings.

Failure 156

Failure Math Academic Development English 156

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. Skills aren’t the only rewards for virtual athletes.

Teachers 167

Teachers Failure English Participation 167

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.

Failure 160

Failure Motivation Writing Culture 160

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression. What is the most important skill you learned in the internship?

Education 167

Education Students Writing Social Studies 167

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. Some of that can be attributed to the pandemic and the loss of foundational academic and social skills during online learning.

Students 176

Students Math Writing Skills 176

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Increasingly computer applications are being developed which capitalize on AI technology to provide support and tutoring to students, assist with writing skills, and significantly enhance classroom instruction by pulling from a wide array of resources and materials to provide comprehensive instruction in key concepts and skills instructed.

Intelligence 209

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 209

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 that’s a skill you don’t quickly forget.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Now “industry” workers, rather than serving on a production line, are required to have an entirely different skill set: problem solving, adapting, integrating multiple academic disciplines simultaneously. They develop the same skills expected of the students, as determined by industry leaders. THIS IS THE RIGHT WORK.

Multidisciplinary 139

Multidisciplinary Schools Failure Evaluation 139

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.

Education 203

Education Failure Students Exams 203

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2020

Also, realize this is not a failure or misstep on your part. Utilize Your Soft Skills- 91% of employers surveyed said that soft skills are a critical skill set they look for in new employees, and 80% of employers said they have a hard time finding candidates with soft skills in today’s market.

Failure 161

Failure History Skills Intelligence 161

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.

Education 205

Education Motivation Failure Attention 205

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

Reading 166

Reading Failure Motivation Study 166

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Early math skills are associated with higher literacy and higher earnings. That has consequences.

Elementary School 199

Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product. You own your successes and your failures. It requires bravery in the face of repeated embarrassment and failure. If you’ve ever communicated solely with facial expressions, gestures and onomatopoeia, then you understand their value.

Languages 157

Languages Language Failure English 157

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I felt self-conscious about my failures every day. Now I realize it is not only about being there for them, but about passing on the skills I have gained to live with my neurodivergence. I write down the anticipated student responses to know when I hear what will allow me to assess student understanding.

Teachers 180

Teachers Attention Failure Disabilities 180

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.

Failure 159

Failure Fairness Participation Writing 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Typically, when jobs evaporate, Americans turn to colleges and universities to increase their skills and marketability. The financial risk of entering higher education was already high, precisely because of the cost of failure. So these students are increasing their chances of winning and reducing the cost of failure.

Failure 130

Failure Online Learning Math Writing 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.”

Math 217

Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Even a game like Candy Crush is hitting some of these skills. Absolutely.

Game-Based Learning 168

Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168