Distraction in the classroom is not always a frustrating irritant, write Eliya Ahmad, a research assistant at the Education Collaboratory at Yale University, and Zi Jia Ng, a licensed child psychologist and certified school psychologist,
The “social nature of learning” — shifting from lectures to students exchanging ideas in peer discussions to better collaborate, actively listen, communicate and express perspectives – broadens understanding and gives students ownership of their learning,
Almost all students in a recent survey (94%) want some media literacy instruction in schools, with 57% asserting that schools should “definitely” be required to teach media literacy, according to an article in Education Week.
Artificial intelligence in classrooms is increasingly being used for tutoring support, language translation, checking for plagiarism, verifying student absences, teacher coaching, the administration and scoring of assessments, and other applications, according to an article in
“Long ago, neuroscience proved that human brains are as variable as fingerprints. Everyone is different and learns differently. Until educators begin teaching to that reality, student performance will continue to lag — and far too
As children and adolescents have become increasingly isolated from their support systems at home and at school — exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic — they have become more vulnerable to threats such as cyberbullying and
By identifying, empowering and incentivizing the best classroom teachers, schools can revive stagnant student achievement, according to an article in Education Next by Eric Hanushek, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University
“When my Los Angeles high school banned cell phones, I brought in a boombox and my CD collection,” writes Joel Snyder, a government and economics teacher in the Florence-Firestone neighborhood of Los Angeles, in a
“Educators know the value of students learning great works of poetry, but teaching poetry often lacks a key ingredient: orality,” writes Clay Greene, assistant professor of literature at the University of Austin, in an Education
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