Students often lack the metacognitive skills they need to succeed, but they can develop these skills by addressing some simple questions. Strategies that target students’ metacognition—the ability to think about thinking—can close a gap that some students experience between how … Continue reading How Metacognition Boosts Learning
Machines can already write music and beat us at games like chess and Go. But the rise of artificial intelligence should inspire hope as well as fear, says Marcus du Sautoy As Marcus du Sautoy greets me at the entrance to New … Continue reading Could robots make us better humans?
The new Lego set is inspired by the original Mindstorms and compatible with all Lego bricks. With its bright, flat cables hanging out everywhere, it may look like some retro computer cobbled together in a 1980s garage in the colorway … Continue reading Lego Spike is the coolest way to learn engineering since 1998
A recent study could help improve treatments for PTSD, anxiety and phobias. A new study examined how the effects of fear-related memories can be silenced in the brain. Forming new and positive “extinction memories” can help to silence fearful memories. … Continue reading How ‘extinction neurons’ help us block out our worst memories
Government would have home-schooled children learn same subjects at same time as peers, sit ministry exams Parents of home-schooled children say the Quebec government’s plans to tighten rules around home-schooling would force their children to learn in the exact same way … Continue reading Quebec’s new, stricter regulations ‘defeat the purpose’ of home-schooling, parents say
There’s no doubt there are more distractions bombarding students than there were 50 years ago. Most kids have cellphones, use social media, play games, watch TV and are generally more “plugged in” than ever before. This cultural shift means that … Continue reading Why Daydreaming is Critical to Effective Learning
Children taught at home will be placed on a register and monitored for the first time amid fears that thousands are being educated at illegal schools, Damian Hinds has announced. The Education Secretary has warned that while many home-schooled children … Continue reading Children educated at home to be registered and monitored for first time amid fears over illegal schools, Education Secretary announce
“How do I make my character jump?” a student asks while coding a project in Scratch. Before responding, I find it’s helpful to ask what they have in mind, so they can think aloud about the process. Talking out their … Continue reading Scratch in Practice: There’s More Than One Way to Code a Cat
One day late last August, Shelia Hill sat at a table on a sidewalk in Sunnydale, outside a San Francisco city bus that had been painted an exceedingly upbeat shade of apple green, yelling at every car that rolled by. … Continue reading ‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’ What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?
Schools in England to get hands-on access to new times table tests from today From today (Monday, April 1), schools up and down the country will be able to try out the new multiplication tables check. The check is designed … Continue reading Schools to trial new multiplication tables check
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