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Technology is critical for innovation, yet schools struggle to get students interested in this area. Could teaching robotics change this?
Dyslexia is often poorly understood by the public, leading people to attribute a problem they have, like bad spelling, to dyslexia. Here are the most common misconceptions explained.
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
Teachers often view vocabulary building as the most important aspect of education. In reality, there are lots of other early learning experiences that children need to develop.
Parent involvement with kids’ homework can have both positive and negative effects. So, what should parents and educators do?
The time of transitioning back to school is crucial for both parents and children. Here’s what you can do.
Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?
High temperatures have been found to have a negative effect on learning, so how are schools in northern Australia coping?
A university building and a school are two of the six buildings shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
Minecraft is not just the world’s most successful PC game – teachers are now using it in the classroom to get kids excited about learning.
There may be a chemical secret to getting kids interested in learning – and it’s one that’s created and produced by our own bodies rather than in a lab.
Mathematics and cooking can both be about problem solving, excitement, aesthetics. And it’s for you to decide for yourself what you like and don’t like in both realms.
In our study, it was the comparison groups of children who showed a visual learning style, not the children with autism.
We strengthen memories while we sleep, and researchers have found a way to cue that process to help people better retain information that counters implicit biases.
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
Humans spend an enormous amount of time and effort thinking about other people. Like primates, birds and even ants, we often learn skills and information from others. In the past, research has extensively…
Everyday, thousands of students around the world perch themselves in front of computer screens in homes, libraries, coffee shops, and Internet cafes to take a massive open online course (MOOC). It’s no…
From September 2016, within five weeks of starting primary school, all children in England will receive an assessment that will stay on their record. But we have been here before and it didn’t work. The…
How many times have we heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day? There’s overwhelming evidence to suggest that it is, especially for children. Eating breakfast has been shown to improve…
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