By Nancy M. Robinson, Ph.D. Photo by Sai De Silva on Unsplash When Johnny was 5, he was greatly disturbed by the accounts of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Not only was he deeply sympathetic to the orphaned children and their uprooted … Continue reading When Your Child Goes Overboard: Fears and Compassionate Concerns

We’re always on the lookout for unexpected budget builds here at Hackaday, and stumbling across a low-cost, DIY version of an instrument that sells for tens of thousands of dollars is always a treat. And so when we saw a … Continue reading KITTY LITTER AND BROKEN LIGHT BULBS POWER THIS HOMEBREW GAS CHROMATOGRAPH

Teachers change brains. While we often don’t think of ourselves as brain changers, when we teach we have an enormous impact on our students’ cognitive development. Recent advances in educational neuroscience are helping educators understand the critical role we play … Continue reading I’m a Neuroscientist. Here’s How Teachers Change Kids’ Brains.

It’s frustrated photographers and scientists for centuries. It’s a problem that has plagued photography since its creation: soft edges. No matter how high-quality the camera, math has dictated that the curve of optical lenses would always be slightly softer than … Continue reading 2,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Problem solved by a Mexican mathematitian

A conversation with unschooling expert Kerry McDonald BY BARBARA DANZA, EPOCH TIMES The new book, “Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom,” by Kerry McDonald—an author, senior education fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and advocate of the … Continue reading Is Unschooling the Future of Education?

Since 2000 when the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched a global academic benchmark for measuring student outcomes by testing 15-year-olds, many global education systems have been impacted by what sometimes looks and feels like a race to rank high. … Continue reading This is how the way the world measures success in education is changing

The U.S. can learn a big lesson from Finland’s education system: Instead of stress and standardized testing, schools should focus on well-being and joy ByPasi Sahlberg and William DoyleAug. 8, 2019 7:00 am ET Five years ago, we switched countries.  Pasi Sahlberg … Continue reading To Really Learn, Our Children Need the Power of Play

By Carolyne Tanui  Kenya has been ranked the second leading innovation hub in sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa while Mauritius came in third, this is according to a report by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The report attributed Kenya’s position to … Continue reading Kenya Ranked 2nd Most Innovative Country In Africa

An African maths institute is creating opportunities to study and stay Albert agisha ntwali was resigned to becoming a maths teacher at a secondary school. The 23-year-old from Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo was a stellar undergraduate at his … Continue reading How Africa can encourage home-grown maths boffins

Unschooling is an alternative education movement quickly gaining popularity and currency worldwide. Like Bitcoin, it is an individualist approach to an area of human action long thought to be established beyond question―education. Both cryptoeconomics and unschooling seek to provide autonomy … Continue reading Why Bitcoiners Are Turning to Unschooling for Decentralized Education