eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Teachers and school leaders adopting new technologies – whether AI or hardware like interactive displays – need to understand their purpose. Higher test scores are often used to measure student achievement, but we know true meaning-making and application of skills are measured in different ways. This is called access to agency.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, there are plenty of ways for students to foster social connections during online schooling. Kids who are enrolled in online learning can still connect with their peers in virtual breakout rooms and should be given every opportunity to meet up informally during the school day.

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Edsurge

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. All online learning requires executive function skills , which allow us to plan, work toward goals, solve problems and be creative.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. You don't become a skilled mountain climber by just reading or watching others climb.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. By including lessons on smart money habits early in their cognitive development, we can encourage young people to save money, foster family conversations, and empower students to be stewards of their own financial futures.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. 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. Take a skill like self-regulation.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

public schools is that 51 percent of all students come from low-income families. There is nothing deficient about the brains of children from poverty; they simply need more practice with the right skills. Build Cognitive Capacity Every Day Cognitive skills are like apps that run the brain. The “new normal” in U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2025

Recognizing the role of early numeracy skills in academic and career readiness can unlock transformative opportunities for student success. Early numeracy encompasses fundamental mathematical concepts and skills young learners acquire before formal schooling. For example: Early numeracy is not just about learning numbers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2022

These schools can focus on your mother tongue, English, as well as other languages that your child might be interested in acquiring. A Boost in Cognitive Development. In 2011, a team of scholars tested two groups of students who were taking English as a foreign language in school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Much of the console game market, until recently, didn’t cater to children under 5, in part because at the younger end of this age range, many children don’t have the motor skills needed to maneuver a controller with features like joysticks and multiple buttons. Having that touch interface could lead to a bigger market.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Pima Community College in Arizona offers students Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training instruction—a model that helps students strengthen their math, reading and writing skills while they prepare for a career—only in subjects that lead to jobs with “family-sustaining wages,” such as information technology and construction.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

Technology is helping schools get increasingly better at offering a more tailored approach to education; moving away from the one-size-fits-all model. Big Tech now commands more hours of our children’s attention than schools. Our public schools were designed with a clear purpose: to educate our citizenry so that democracy could thrive.

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JULY 31, 2020

Michelle Lamont’s 7-year-old daughter, Savannah, was already struggling with reading when her school shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March. Shortly after Savannah’s school, located in the rural town of Hampshire, Tenn., The couple decided—mostly out of necessity—that the school year, in their house, had ended in March. “My

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The one-time events are held in informal settings, such as museums, after-school programs and community centers and attendees don’t need prior experience because the facilitator provides a brief tutorial for the tool using videos and tips provided in the protocols. But the problem is not always lack of interest.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Seventy-four percent of teachers from high-SES districts and 64 percent from low-SES districts reported their schools had cut the amount of time scheduled for child-directed activities in recent years. . 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

AUGUST 4, 2021

A school in Baixiang County, China. The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. 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

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 3, 2019

Music is arguably one of the most important subjects taught in school, yet is often the first to be cut away when budgets fail. It can be brought into the classroom and help to broaden students knowledge and instrumental skills. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development. More on music.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

It’s one of the 2014 category award winners by School and Band Orchestra magazine and the industry standard for teaching band, string, and vocal of all ages and all skill levels. The app will be well received by many schools that use iPads as their digital device-of-choice. 38 Art Websites for K-8.

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Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

Despite often being the first to be cut from the curriculum in some schools, dismissed as a luxury, or merely a source of fridge-worthy projects, art education holds profound benefits. Cognitive Skills Art classes play a critical role in developing a student’s cognitive skills.

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Edsurge

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. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist. Learning Stories.

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Teach Your Kids

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The conversation highlights the cognitive benefits of skill-based, non-motor-dependent games and how gaming helped shape the entrepreneurial skills of leaders like Tobi Lütke (Shopify) and Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn). Games are evaluated for their educational value and cognitive development potential.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Some parents received analog games designed to convey math skills, while others received a storybook. Another result: Girls got a bigger skills bump from the tablets than boys.

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