For years, teachers have bemoaned the state of student writing — and have struggled to manage students’ complex, largely negative feelings about it, according to a Denver Post article that appeared in The Hechinger Report.
Agentic AI is one of education’s most talked-about technologies, but few school districts and colleges have deployed AI agents in day-to-day operations, according to a GovTech article. Key takeaways: 1) AI agents are being used in
A multi-university study led by Texas A&M University sheds new light on the most critical factors in developing literacy, according to a K-12 Dive article. Researchers analyzed nearly 50,000 correlations across 137 coordinated cognitive and
Researchers detect “cognitive surrender” in answering math word problems, with many students seemingly completing assignments faster while learning less from them, according to an article in The Hechinger Report. This conclusion comes from one of
“We don’t have to remove all tech,” says Stephanie Malia Krauss, author of “How We Thrive: Caring for Kids and Ourselves in a Changing World,” in an article in The 74. “We need to remove
Emphasizing play can be contrary to early learning goals, which often focuses on academic standards, according to an article in Education Week. But when learning is more playful, it becomes more effective, says Kimberly Nesbitt, an
A growing “Science of Math” movement has begun to take shape, drawing on cognitive science to reexamine how students acquire mathematical knowledge, writes Danielle Hankins, an educational psychologist and faculty member at Alliant University in
Technology should make teachers’ work lives easier and their impact more powerful, not have kids spend more time on screens, writes Abbas Manjee, co-founder of Kiddom, an education technology company, and a former high school
Nobody really knows how much screen time is too much for our health, according to an article in The News-Times (Danbury, Conn.) and posted by GovTech. Is there a need to worry? The American Academy
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