eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Florida school leaders worry schools won’t be able to manage testing requirements. Many Florida superintendents fear their schools won’t be able to manage all the new computer-based testing set to begin next week. Next page: How schools might not be equipped to handle the testing influx.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

They would do well on timed tests, just acing timed tests. It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. What are some tips based on your experiences, some ways to avoid flipped failure? They seemed to be engaged.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. The basic steps of design thinking are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (Interaction Design Foundation, 2016). Industry and Higher Education , 30 (3), 215223.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. That is incredibly frustrating. If you look across the world, other countries have handled the pandemic very differently. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

Jump ahead 19 years, and we were experiencing inconsistent startups (30-40 second blackouts before the generator would start and provide power) when power failure events happened. Through collaboration with facilities, we captured multiple data points about what was happening from the point of failure until the generated power was active.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

At Webb, where about 75 percent of students are on free or reduced lunch, sinking test scores and references to a “failing school” led to low morale among parents and staff. Technology is involved, especially when used to help kids actively create something, but it’s not necessarily a part of everything. ”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

This perception of intellectual “haves” and “have nots” is one that Lang Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, recently tested. Making things work at scale is something technology is good at. said technology makes a significant impact in their classrooms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Reading difficulties such as dyslexia are generally diagnosed in second or third grade, after repeated failure to learn to read and after the most effective intervention window,” said Carla Small, co-founder and CEO of EarlyBird Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

I’m pleased to say that more and more education leaders and technology products providers are regularly talking and doing something about this. Educators will prioritize SEL over technology controls as cyberbullying deterrents. And now, I believe we are entering a new stage of “one-stop shop” solutions.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Test the tool.

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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. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

This predicament is only exacerbated by the recent breakthroughs in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and technology, which are accelerating scientific and mathematic discoveries, leading to rapid changes in every field’s accepted pedagogical and theoretical practices.

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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. You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure.

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eSchool News

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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Then, through her opening speech, she set out to put technology in its place. “I During the conference, hosted by NYU Steinhardt, she used her voice to direct the edtech-friendly audience to where she felt technology could be used strategically in schools. I think having a good testing environment is very important,” Mill says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

We need to prepare our students for a world in which they are routinely interacting with technology that needs to be programmed. 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 8, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Time and resources are often a barrier to providing educators with critical learning opportunities that help them reduce students’ reading failure rate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. Although we were convinced that technology could transform education, simple internet access was patchy at best.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. The problem has been that learning science has not embraced as much the science of context.”

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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? How can schools use your findings going forward?

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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 by then it’s too late. They learned how to learn.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

That “those” kids “need” a test-prep education so they can get higher test scores and close our “achievement gap.”. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. Avoiding worst-case technology scenarios through mindfulness. The soft bigotry of low expectations.” via [link]. Some don’t.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

And because of exponential technologies (the essential bits inside your tech that get smaller, faster, cheaper and more powerful at an exponential rate) the changes in the coming decade will be even more unfathomable than those which redefined the previous decade. Testing new models: Develop and test new school models.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. 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. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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Edsurge

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. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

A quarter of a century ago, when I helped launch a number of online master’s degrees at Stevens Institute of Technology, an engineering school in Hoboken, NJ, we didn’t employ instructional designers or videographers. Ironically, colleges that invested early, when so many were hesitant, were able to build courses and programs at lower cost.

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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.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Edsurge

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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program at the high school in their small Kansas town. When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. They don't see it as a failure. I'll just rebuild it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. One of the biggest indicators of a successful program is intentional technology use. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

embrace 3D printing and its benefits, administrators and teachers must find an effective way to make the technology accessible to more students. The MakerBot Innovation Center at MOHS is part of the Marauder Innovation Learning Lab (MiLL), a STEAM-focused (science, technology, engineering, arts, math) learning space.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. In these systems, students are automatically enrolled in algebra — unless they choose to opt out — after they achieve high scores on standard tests. There are some examples of this model in practice now.

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