eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Traditionally, the spotlight on STEM education appears to occur in high school and late middle school grade-levels. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development. Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development.

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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). It also seems to be a harsh indictment of school leaders’ inability to enact research-based (or even common sense) best practices.

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