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3 Fresh Art and Music Apps for the Classroom

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Now, in today’s connected classroom, creativity has become the newest transformative tool, the buzzword that indicates a curriculum is on the cutting edge, that teachers are delivering their best to students and differentiating for varied needs. Art and music have long been considered the doorway to creative thinking. Conclusion.

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The Importance of Art Class

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In today’s technology-driven classrooms , art remains an important component of student development. Despite often being the first to be cut from the curriculum in some schools, dismissed as a luxury, or merely a source of fridge-worthy projects, art education holds profound benefits. Art can also promote empathy.

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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

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In an ordinary year, when schools let out for the summer, many students experience learning loss —also known as “summer slide”—where their knowledge retention and cognitive development slows or recedes. About 230 miles east of Hampshire, in Knoxville, Tenn.,

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Can Chinese Edtech Regulations Stifle a Culture of Striving?

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The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I Jiao asks. “I

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. In his view, there was hope for every child.

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Cutting-Edge Tech To Improve Music Teaching

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3 Fresh Art and Music Apps for the Classroom. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. More on music.

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Running a Home-Based Preschool Is Tough, and Support Is Meager

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Nevada inspectors also ensure that Whitesides’ curriculum includes literacy, math, science, social studies, creative expression, arts, health and safety in addition to fostering children’s social, emotional, physical, linguistic and cognitive development.