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Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

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This scene is the result of a national, coordinated program to provide safe, structured play to students and, in effect, instill in them foundational social-emotional skills such as conflict resolution, fairness, leadership and communication. For Chappell, the answer might just be yes.

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Can Video Games Help Early Learners Grow?

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Holbert, who is also part of a research group that develops and studies games, adds that it might be difficult to find high-quality games for learning. But there's a fair amount of games that are in a space that I would try to think more of as games for exploration and games for creativity,” he says.

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What the Boom in Kids’ Smartwatches Reveals About Modern Parenting

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They interfere with so many aspects of child development,” she says, rattling off some examples: cognitive development, language development, social emotional and behavioral development, mental health. She quickly whittled her options down to just one: a smartwatch. Its functionalities are more limited.