Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

But that doesn’t seem to be the key motivator behind parents’ purchasing decisions. 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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop. Such a developmental trajectory is proposed in the Building Blocks for Learning , which I developed for Turnaround for Children.

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Teach Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating Incentives Creating incentives to improve handwriting is a strategy that will motivate students to work harder and put forth their best effort. The more supportive a student’s learning environment is, the more they will be motivated to practice. The more they practice, the better their handwriting will become.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the motivations, according to Robert DeHaas, vice provost of the School of Education at Dallas College, was to set students up for better jobs and higher pay. We’re not bashful about calling that out,” DeHaas told EdSurge in November. It gives them that encouragement on their educational journey,” Rouser says.

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Education Cognitive Development Motivation Skills 156

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

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. Technology is, in fact, already touching nearly every part of our public education system, from assessments to communication to professional learning.

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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 Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation. I think that will be a huge problem going forward.” In many ways, they are distorting education.”

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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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Edsurge

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. If a game rewards a child for getting a right answer by ringing a bell or blowing a whistle, a child might find that positive reinforcement motivating.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

I believe that’s what’s motivating these parents.” 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. Ordoñez asks. “I

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