{"id":4750,"date":"2015-07-02T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2015-06-27T09:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T15:04:42","slug":"failure-is-essential-to-learning-edutopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/02\/failure-is-essential-to-learning-edutopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure Is Essential to Learning | Edutopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Just catching up: this is from earlier this year. Worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/blog\/failure-essential-learning-bob-lenz\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4906\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gopher-300x228.gif\" alt=\"gopher\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/>Failure Is Essential to Learning | Edutopia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do you make failure students&#8217; friend? Set a high standard and don&#8217;t be afraid to tell students that they haven&#8217;t met it. But in the next breath, give detailed suggestions on what they can do to improve. And, most important &#8212; though so often given short shrift &#8212; allow students the time, space, and support to make the revisions. In such a culture, failure does not mean, &#8220;You lose.&#8221; It means, &#8220;You can do better. We believe in you. Here is some feedback: revise, and try again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4750'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4750);\" title='Like' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>1 person likes this post.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4750);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4750);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Just catching up: this is from earlier this year. Worth a read. Failure Is Essential to Learning | Edutopia. How do you make failure students&#8217; friend? Set a high standard and don&#8217;t be afraid to tell students that they haven&#8217;t &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/02\/failure-is-essential-to-learning-edutopia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,24],"tags":[389,49,393],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-teaching-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-fail","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1eC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3864,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/05\/10\/where-ive-been-online-may-10-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":4750,"position":0},"title":"Where I&#8217;ve Been Online (May 10, 2014)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Productivity and Play in Digital Media and Learning | DMLcentral \"The authors of the study state that the usage policies for publicly accessible computers tend to favor \u201cproductive\u201d uses \u2014 such as looking for work or conducting research \u2014 over (supposedly) non-productive ones, like playing games or accessing social networks.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computers&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computers","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/computers-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3653,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/24\/interaction-between-stereotypes-expectations-of-success-and-learning-from-failure-computing-education-blog\/","url_meta":{"origin":4750,"position":1},"title":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Interaction between stereotypes, expectations of success, and learning from failure | Computing Education Blog. 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