Am I taking this phrase too literal? One of my goals this year was to provide more feedback (instant feedback) to students to allow them to watch their progress.  What happens when their progress is not progress at all? Using the information to change my instruction I can do, but when the change still doesn't produce results then I"m at a loss.  

Failing and trying again is not just hard for students but also hard for adults.  As adults we see failure as growth but only if that failure does not occur many times.  I am hoping to utilize my attempt in giving feedback and not succeeding as another opportunity to change my instruction. This is challenge that I must face head on and don't know how or what this will look like but I am willing to give this another try.  

GAFE (google apps for education) and all the other technology (TI-Nspire, chromebooks, computer labs, BYOD)  we've used in the past months is really great.  I think a plethora of technology is an understatement. There is so much we can do, find, discover.  However, the distractions, distractions, distractions! How do I redirect, cope and get students to change their mindset so that they can learn.  They certainly can search on youtube and shop on amazon for shoes and jump to their device to post on their snapchat storyboard but what about the math?? What about the math? Not interested; they are not interested in the 1 of many things that I am so passionate about.  I wish I could just tap into every student's passion simultaneously and get them to think about how to "math" that passion on their technology for 20, 10, even 5 minutes.  5 minutes and I'll feel like we are making progress.  5 minutes.