EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The future has swooped in early: We’re already seeing drones being added to the mix of teaching tools that educators are using to help bring STEM to life in their classrooms. Drone Competition Creates Fun STEM Opportunity. We also did one drone lesson for student writing. Drones Prepare Students for a STEM Future.

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Learning Tools STEM Learning Failure 161

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Ryan Greenberg: When I was thinking about this, I quickly found that the skill people should master is clear writing—the ability to write well. I think that writing English might seem mundane compared with writing a iPhone app, but it really gives you a leg up on people who have just the technical skills.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. You can find more of Andy’s writing at the Eduporium website. High Tech In The Classroom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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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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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

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 148

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance. Teachers write blogs about the pros and cons about teaching CS and engineering. Industry debates about the STEM jobs pipeline.

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Science STEM Failure Middle School 108

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.” Our interest in academic discourse, and by extension Socratic seminars, stems from our work as Hollyhock fellows at Stanford’s Center to Support Excellence in Teaching.

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Failure STEM Discussions Participation 108

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Games Make Us More Social Companies like Google are finding that SEL skills are more important to students’ success than the mastery of STEM subjects alone. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. That’s a powerful reason to invest in teaching the whole child. Games also teach us to be critical thinkers.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

A study released last year by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly half of the nation’s teacher training programs failed to insure that their candidates were STEM-capable. A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. This isn’t just for writing, though. Make this a strategy in the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Educational innovators might: Write a book - publish on Kindle or iTunes. Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. With over 20 years classroom experience, Tricia is all about “putting the STEAM back in STEM.”

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

The growth mindset isn’t anything new—people have been writing about it more frequently for the last few years. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part. I was on a mission to change the way students speak with themselves.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The act of writing a computer program requires you to think about how to create sequences which are step by step procedures on how to solve a given problem. Resilience, the ability to bounce back from change or adversity, stems from being able to persevere and display grit. The same applies to computer science. Resilience.

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Science Learning Students Critical Thinking 114

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

about half the teachers who responded said their [Massachusetts] districts had adopted scripted programs in math and writing – and 60 percent in phonics and spelling – which reduce a teacher’s autonomy in instruction. Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. Clarke Fowler found that .

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. It’s not writing papers for them,” Renick says. “It It’s often said that online courses offer students increased flexibility—supposedly a positive quality. The chatbot is not doing the coursework for the students.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

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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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

And what BCPS itself learned along the way was that to be truly helpful to other educators, sharing out that both the triumphs and the failures must be continual, authentic and transparent. It is very difficult for them to write about it on top of all they are doing to plan and prepare for their students,” Cox notes.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 122

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

In other words, our learning space is perfectly imperfect: We have enough supervision and expertise to guide the students to realize their goals, and the students have enough space to rise to challenges, encounter failure, encourage one another and stall out only to find a way over an obstacle and see a task to completion.

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Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The act of writing a computer program requires you to think about how to create sequences which are step by step procedures on how to solve a given problem. Resilience, the ability to bounce back from change or adversity, stems from being able to persevere and display grit. The same applies to computer science. Resilience.

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Science Learning Students Critical Thinking 87

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

At some point the stresses on the system will cause it to break but for now they can continue to push on the edges, knowing that our schools’ eventual failure will occur during someone else’s political cycle. But our ability to make do with less makes it easier for Iowa policymakers to continue to starve our schools.

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Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Be responsible for failures. And then thirdly, Coates has some very tough language in his writing for all of us, but particularly for white leaders. We know this—you write about this all the time. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Language Languages Failure Fairness 68

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Another option is Mine-imator –a free download to guide students in writing their Minecraft-based story. To be effective in Minecraft worlds requires science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM. Dealing with Failure. How Minecraft Teaches Reading, Writing and Problem Solving. Minecraft Resources.

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Failure STEM Knowledge Writing 0

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 192

Teacher Toms Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

I mean, he represents the pinnacle of the much ballyhooed STEM (or STEAM) schooling that we hear so much about. At least if judged by today's productivity standards, da Vinci was a classic failure-to-launch dreamer, full of high falutin ideas, but obviously without the grit or rigor to pull himself up by his own bootstraps or whatever.

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Failure History STEM Motivation 85

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Aside from 11,000 voters reportedly writing in the name of Harambe the Gorilla rather than voting for Clinton or Trump, there’s little evidence that what Americans need are more convenient bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Millions of Americans are desperately in need of a multitude of pathways to better employment.

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Failure English STEM Learning Outcomes 129

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Acquiring Job Skills Conservatives’ skepticism of universities stems partly from ideology, surveys show, but also from practical concerns about whether those institutions effectively prepare students for jobs—a worry also shared by liberals. Pulsipher agrees that the “shelf-life” of some technical skills is shortening.

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Skills Secondary Education Students Knowledge 123

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Sometimes teachers unintentionally set kids up for failure by making assumptions about the prior knowledge and experience they bring into the classroom like presuming that all students grow up in a home with conversation about the political climate in our country, or that they’re all born digital natives with an iPhone in hand. I felt awful.

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Technology Teaching Failure Essay 117

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

implement new, supplemental ‘bread and circuses’ initiatives (say, STEM or financial literacy) that distract the general public from the year-to-year erosion of base school funding. use selective data (say, NAEP scores) to manufacture educational crises that feed your rhetoric of public school failure.

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Failure Education English STEM 89