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. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Plan digital activities like web-based scavenger hunts or show-and-tell games. Encourage imagination : Children love to imagine and pretend play is a great way to boost cognitive development. Extracurricular activities Students enrolled in online learning don’t need to spend all day behind a screen.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Teachers attuned to their classroom culture understand when their students are engaged, and they seek to activate more and more of those coveted light-bulb moments–indicators of high motivation to learn more. This is called access to agency. Agency is about having a desire, making plans, and carrying out actions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. In particular, the age and cognitive development of your students has a profound impact on their ability to succeed in different online learning environments.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Seventy-four percent of teachers from high-SES districts and 64 percent from low-SES districts reported their schools had cut the amount of time scheduled for child-directed activities in recent years. . Of course the benefits of active learning are apparent beyond the kindergarten sector.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One is physical development, including gross motor skills, which allow kids to run, hop and skip, as well as fine motor skills, which help children hold a pencil or use scissors. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But that doesn’t seem to be the key motivator behind parents’ purchasing decisions. What we do know is that screens of all stripes can have deleterious effects on children, affecting their mental health, cognitive development, social and emotional development and language development.

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