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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools. This knowledge comes through personalization.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Graduate education—with its specialization, close access to faculty members, and opportunities for deep learning—ought to help with this kind of interdisciplinary training. However, it usually doesn’t. One potential solution is to build Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

While we often don’t think of ourselves as brain changers, when we teach we have an enormous impact on our students’ cognitive development. Recent advances in educational neuroscience are helping educators understand the critical role we play in building brain capacities important to students’ learning and self-control.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Research shows that by the age of 12, students will develop an economic understanding that researchers describe as “essentially adult”. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Meanwhile, a child development expert talks about video games more broadly and is typically referring to mobile games and app experiences—some marketed as entertainment, others touted as educational. “We The game is most likely to be educationally valuable if the educational content is woven into the game itself,” Kirkorian explains.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

However, a growing number of educators, industry leaders, and parents are recognizing the immense value of skilled trades. Hands-On Work is Good for the Brain Working with our hands isnt just about building or fixing thingsits also beneficial for cognitive development.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic. Constructionism.

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MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

In addition, DevTech recruited facilitators, such as educators and museum coordinators, from all over the country to host these events in their respective communities and created Family Coding Day protocols that are freely accessible and can be adapted for other coding technologies. Shift the focus to exposure, rather than knowledge.

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JULY 31, 2020

And with no educational focus since March, it’s been a bit terrifying,” Lamont admits. “We former Tennessee governor Bill Haslam and his wife, Crissy, were worrying about students like Savannah and Mia, whose educations were disrupted by COVID-19, and wondering if there was anything they could do about it.

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APRIL 3, 2019

In a recent survey, 93% of Americans said that learning music is an important part of getting a well-rounded education. Simply Piano and Joy Tunes are two excellent piano apps that provide informative lessons and musical knowledge in a logical, step-by-step way. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Companies and organizations exist to help preschool owners manage payroll, develop education programs and advertise to families. Bolden-Kramer benefits from the support of Wonderschool, a company that helps educators tackle some of these challenges in exchange for a cut of revenue. in 2018, up 3 percent since 2015.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Fifty years ago, Albert Einstein warned ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development. ’ The ability to solve problems by thinking creatively is more important than knowing how they were solved in the past. 38 Art Websites for K-8.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

billion, in fact; I don't know where House got his 3 billion), humans have, like trees, educated ourselves through the process of life itself. And that's been more than enough, yet, in our hubris, we've created institutions that pretend to be an improvement upon the system by which the entire rest of the universe educates itself.

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