eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development. These foundational years offer a unique opportunity to spark curiosity and creativity, thereby providing the basis for more advanced learning in later grades and beyond.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Therefore, the keyboard was chosen, and it would seem that the importance of thousands of years of human cognitive development was cast aside. At the time, there were limited input methods as the technology for more “natural” methods did not exist. By Derrick Coetzee: An early Osborne laptop.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Real-World, Meaningful Problems This kind of scenario — linking the drama of mountaineering with work on percentages in middle school math — can effectively be used in a problem-based learning (PBL) approach in the classroom. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

During the pandemic, teachers and students rapidly adopted new tools to pivot to remote and hybrid learning. The emergence of AI comes at an interesting time, when educators are looking for solutions to close the gap of pandemic-era learning loss and prepare their students for an increasingly technology-driven world.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2016

In an effort to address the national need to guide more students to STEM careers, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) researchers are developing curriculum which introduces STEM principles during the formative preschool years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Here’s a more detailed peek into how they assist cognitive growth, critical thinking, and creativity: Unlocking Learning Fun: How Educational Bini Games Foster Child Development Parents and caregivers help children learn and grow by actively engaging and promoting their growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2020

From voice assistants, which they are already mastering around the time they learn to speak, to various applications that prompt cognitive development, this generation is under the magnifying glass. Children of Gen Alpha are growing up with an array of possibilities that preceding generations did not have a chance to enjoy.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

This type of professional development goes beyond one-time workshops or surface-level training; it involves ongoing learning opportunities that promote deep reflection, self-awareness, and meaningful change in practice.

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JULY 15, 2024

But also, because there are undeniable cognitive benefits students experience through the process of learning to write: Enhanced memory and learning : Handwriting improves retention of information compared to typing. Improved hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, essential for cognitive development.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. Here are three ways to jumpstart learning for students of poverty. Build Cognitive Capacity Every Day Cognitive skills are like apps that run the brain.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

This teacher makes us use what we learn to come up with ways to solve problems. This teacher has a way to make sure everyone is learning. Researchers believe it may be in part due to their age and development, and partly because secondary school teachers are content specialists who can dive more deeply into their subjects.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These creative coding projects took place during Family Coding Day , a free event hosted by the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University, which is dedicated to designing and evaluating technologies that promote young children’s learning and development. The event first started as a community outreach initiative for DevTech in 2016.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through “rigorous instruction.”. Given what we know about teacher retention and/or the cognitive development of young children, this is incredibly dismaying (and not limited to Massachusetts).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Although today’s kindergarteners were infants when the pandemic started, fewer of them participated in early learning experiences, such as preschool , and most had limited social interactions during a critical developmental period. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Despite the evidence that introducing STEM during the pre-kindergarten years supports children’s cognitive development and positive attitudes toward learning and inquiry, there is very little STEM instruction in pre-kindergarten classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Solving them may require training young scholars to be “ wicked students ,” to use a phrase from Paul Hanstedt, director of the Washington & Lee University teaching and learning center. However, it usually doesn’t.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. I’d say it’s technocentrism , a concept introduced by Seymour Papert, renowned mathematician, learning theorist and edtech pioneer. So what is this philosophy? Papert diagnosed this issue back in 1987.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

So far, there has been minimal research on the impact of smartwatches on young children’s learning and development. What we do know is that screens of all stripes can have deleterious effects on children, affecting their mental health, cognitive development, social and emotional development and language development.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2025

Early literacy often dominates conversations around foundational learning in todays educational system. The Broader Impact and Long-Term Benefits of Early Numeracy Early numeracy is not just about learning numbers. For example: Early numeracy is not just about learning numbers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

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. Personalized learning for the whole learner, EdSurge Fusion 2018’s theme, is how we can begin to educate through the science of learning and development.

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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. Easier Time Picking Up New Languages.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2019

The report posits the need to focus on social-emotional and academic development when educating children. And it characterizes social-emotional learning as the missing piece of education. Deliberate and thoughtful advisory curricula and opportunities, such as the showing of Bending the Arc, are ways to ensure this balance exists.

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Edsurge

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But there’s a hitch: Some higher ed leaders are ambivalent about promoting pathways to jobs in early learning. Other colleges still offer basic certificates in early learning but try to nudge students in more lucrative directions. And that means encouraging colleges to recruit, prepare and graduate more early childhood educators.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The game is one of a few available on a major console that is aimed at children ages 5 and under, and it promises “hours of learning fun,” according to Nintendo’s website. The number of console games is a fraction of that, and console games for learning represents an even smaller slice of the pie.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Many educators and students learned that buildings would be closed beginning the following Monday, with no real sense of when they might reopen. But the role of food service staff in the larger remote learning experiment is not to be understated. “This”—the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S.—happened

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Teach Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

It also improves your memory and understanding of what you are learning. Using Multi-Sensory Techniques To ensure you’re meeting the needs of diverse learning styles use multisensory techniques. The more supportive a student’s learning environment is, the more they will be motivated to practice. Here are a few ideas.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In short, they’re learning good sportsmanship, and that in turn has made a dramatic difference in the way students treat each other. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair? It’s a developmentally critical behavior through which kids learn.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

Technology is, in fact, already touching nearly every part of our public education system, from assessments to communication to professional learning. Field-trip photos are texted to parents, quiz reminders find their way into students’ chat feeds, and teachers have new tech tools to motivate their students.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2020

transitioned to remote learning, staff mailed out optional paper packets for students to work on for the remainder of the semester. There was no virtual or remote learning offered from the district. And in the case of COVID-19, they will have only learned half-a-year of content from the prior year.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 3, 2019

In a recent survey, 93% of Americans said that learning music is an important part of getting a well-rounded education. It is a subject that can also benefit many other areas of learning, including math and languages, by engaging many different hemispheres of the brain. It is impossible to learn about music without listening to it.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I Investor Angst Learning is big business in China. We’re trying to learn from the new policies. Will there be hardware, new e-books and other e-learning materials?” Jiao asks. “We

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Not only do I remember these lessons, I remember the teachers fondly, and as a teacher myself now, I appreciate the efforts they made to create a significant learning experience for me. It’s almost as if the academic buildings themselves declare: You are adults and need to be engaged in the serious and rigorous work of learning.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Not only do I remember these lessons, I remember the teachers fondly, and as a teacher myself now, I appreciate the efforts they made to create a significant learning experience for me. It’s almost as if the academic buildings themselves declare: You are adults and need to be engaged in the serious and rigorous work of learning.

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