eSchool News
JANUARY 6, 2025
In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.
eSchool News
OCTOBER 25, 2023
Higher test scores are often used to measure student achievement, but we know true meaning-making and application of skills are measured in different ways. The sense of agency plays a pivotal role in cognitive development and includes recognizing oneself as the agent of behavior and an empowered independent.
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Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2025
A study published in Developmental Psychology found that early math skills at kindergarten entry are among the most significant predictors of later academic achievement , even more so than early reading skills. Addressing early numeracy can be pivotal in closing achievement gaps, particularly for students from underserved communities.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 13, 2021
Instead, more often than not, graduate education provides depth almost to the systematic exclusion of breadth; developing isolated and disconnected experts rather than those who can meaningfully connect with others and their expertise toward achieving common goals.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2017
For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 23, 2018
Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop. Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2018
Research shows that by the age of 12, students will develop an economic understanding that researchers describe as “essentially adult”. My organization, The MassMutual Foundation , is committed to equipping young people with the financial skills and capacities they need to achieve those outcomes. They are looking for better outcomes.
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