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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on.

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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. Of course, content must be appropriate to students’ age and prior knowledge, but students also need supportive cognitive capacities. Teachers change brains.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

In particular, the age and cognitive development of your students has a profound impact on their ability to succeed in different online learning environments. Group discussions will work well when your students have the background knowledge gleaned from independent work. Each approach is best suited to different contexts.

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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”. Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Hands-On Work is Good for the Brain Working with our hands isnt just about building or fixing thingsits also beneficial for cognitive development. Life Skills That Go Beyond the Job Learning a trade isnt just about mastering technical skills; its about acquiring knowledge that has real-life applications.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But it’s hard to draw concrete conclusions about whether games geared toward early learners will likely result in the development of key skills, such as emotional regulation, notes Kirkorian. One big takeaway though, is that the fun factor is crucial to yield any positive learning outcome. “The

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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. “The Seymour’s genius goes far beyond the academic. Learning Stories.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

We also know from existing family literacy research that shared reading interventions and home reading programs can enhance children’s linguistic and cognitive development. Shift the focus to exposure, rather than knowledge. What if the same principle is applied to coding?

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MARCH 3, 2019

I’m a believer in the merits of technology and have written about how technology can be used to broaden access to knowledge , connect people and even improve empathy. But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Simply Piano and Joy Tunes are two excellent piano apps that provide informative lessons and musical knowledge in a logical, step-by-step way. It can be brought into the classroom and help to broaden students knowledge and instrumental skills. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development.

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JULY 31, 2020

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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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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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

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.

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JUNE 11, 2025

Experiments are not about discovery but about listening and translating knowledge.” He huffily defended this approach, insisting that brains first need a "stock of knowledge" from which to draw in order to ever think clearly. That’s kind of like Columbus claiming to have discovered America. This is how the rest of Mother Nature learns.

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