eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning. 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. Data can empower districts to align teaching with student needs.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2019

The goal of trauma-informed teaching is to help all students feel known and supported. And the good news is that today, we know that using trauma-informed teaching strategies can benefit all students, regardless of their experiences. These findings, coupled with the fact that almost half of the students in the U.S.

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. By implementing this hands-on approach, I hoped that the students would not only deepen their own STEAM understanding, but also gain the confidence and inspiration to effectively teach these critical subjects to their future students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma.

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2018

Even though the popularity of teaching kids to code has increased, there are still concerns with screen time for young children. But what if there were a way to teach kids to code without screens? For 3- to 4-year-old children, play and learning are not separate concepts, so it makes sense to teach them through play.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Impacts Design thinking is imperative because of the 21st century skills it teaches to students and asks them to practice, and it also can provide many additional positive impacts for students as well. The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. link] Dorland, A. 2016, May 25).

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Teaching is full of fads, big ideas that promise to revolutionize instruction. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revising an episode from the summer that looks at a teaching fad from the 1960s and ’70s that has almost vanished from the discussion. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In my experience, educators looking to create a STEM-centered classroom can take advantage of five teaching hacks which allow them to manage students while still fostering a growth mindset: Hack 1: Material management The first challenge in a STEM classroom is material management. Above all, remember to have fun.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. However, to make significant and sustainable long-term changes in education, our perceptions of what teaching and learning “look” like have to fundamentally shift to avoid stagnation and make progress. The teacher is the expert.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Failure is part of learning. Most school campuses have at least a couple of teachers who are tech-savvy and eager to try new tools and teaching strategies. Why not ask these teachers to spend one or two periods in their teaching schedule working with teachers instead of students? Not every lesson is a smashing success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

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.” Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the pandemic prompted schools to quickly shift to distance learning last spring, educators became responsible for using online technologies to teach students. As a leader of a nonprofit where young kids connect and learn online, we prioritize teaching kids these important skills that will take them well into adulthood.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

As a result, she adapted her teaching by breaking down the process into smaller projects and activities centered on each phase of the design thinking process. Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. I often teach students who react with surprise when they do well in my class. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. I’m not smart.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared. In fact, studies have shown that test anxiety is actually the worst in the middle grades.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Eyler certainly spends a lot of time thinking about teaching, since his day job is now the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University. By offering a guided tour through a variety of theories about human learning, he may just cause you to rethink what teaching even is. Eyler: That is the perennial question.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Im in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. It makes me proud to be a science teacher who teaches reading, too. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

But more than a dozen national surveys of teachers, parents, students, and school administrators conducted over the past few months offer the clearest initial tally of successes and failures. The surveys offer more evidence that educators were right to worry that remote learning would exacerbate inequities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The educators began stretching their existing abilities, thriving on challenges and seeing failures as a heartening springboard for growth and getting back to find solutions. An open platform was established wherein teachers could share their triumphs and also failures.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. It makes me proud to be a science teacher who teaches reading, too. newsletters.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. It’s the fifth picture book in Jory’s series teaching life lessons using food, accompanied by The Cool Bean , which also tops the list. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it. But when they build a catapult and it doesn't work, they think, "It's cool. I'll just rebuild it. I'll just change this."

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. In the past, a poor grade usually resulted in the negative feelings associated with failure. Within our game environment, however, students see mistakes as an opportunity to try again and do better.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

The tools developed for this study draw on principles of behavioral economics, motivation theory and learning cognition theory to help students want to improve and connect with teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. Our no-judgment zone encourages risk taking and failure becomes a catalyst for revision and improved design. Social-emotional learning is a huge part of our learning process.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” Zimmerman talks about the story, and other surprising moments from teaching history, in this week’s episode of the EdSurge Podcast. What happened?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

I’ve found throughout my teaching career that the most effective lessons are those with real-world applications. Make failure fun. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Of all Minecraft’s educational strengths, this may be the greatest. What a primer in problem solving.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There will be long-term effects if the methods of teaching creativity are not adjusted, but if educators embrace AI mindfully, there will be long-term benefits. Failure and criticism can lead to students abandoning their own ideas and relying too heavily on AI to be their brains, so to speak.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and has varied research interests including language processing, bilingual language representation, memory, universal design for learning (UDL) and numerous other topics related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. References Abdullah, M.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

She earned her PhD in cognitive psychology from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and has varied research interests including language processing, bilingual language representation, memory, universal design for learning (UDL) and numerous other topics related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. References Abdullah, M.

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