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

APRIL 12, 2024

Entrepreneurs and developers try to make the best possible drug to treat students, while administrators and researchers (myself included) stand guard, testing and validating the treatments. According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.” or “does LOGO work?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2022

A Boost in Cognitive Development. People used to have a negative impression of bilingualism, as early researchers thought that exposure to more than one language led to “mental confusion” among children and caused them to develop performance gaps as they aged.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. Imagine you are a mountaineer. According to video documentation in the study, U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts). That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments.

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Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

Social-Emotional Learning Art class extends beyond a student’s cognitive development, it can also impact their social- emotional learning. When students explore different art forms and learn different cultural and personal perspectives, they have a better understanding of other people’s experiences.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

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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