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JANUARY 25, 2023

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. In addition, as course content becomes more challenging in higher grades, teachers may tend to use these complex strategies more often.”

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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. The current remote learning situation means I am not only supporting academic and social-emotional learning but on top of that, I am scaffolding student’s use of technology.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Indeed, interdisciplinary training exposes students to many diverse perspectives, which previous studies suggest may lead to more innovative solutions and more powerful cognitive development. No matter the approach, it is urgent that our universities find a way to graduate researchers with interdisciplinary skills and views.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

Many people said in interviews that it is natural for children to want to have access to the same technology their older siblings, parents and peers have. Parent fear may be the primary driver of this booming market. Kids like having a device of their own. But that doesn’t seem to be the key motivator behind parents’ purchasing decisions.

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MARCH 3, 2025

It contributes to cognitive development, problem-solving abilities and logical reasoning essential skills across all subjects and future career paths. It contributes to cognitive development, problem-solving abilities and logical reasoning essential skills across all subjects and future career paths.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a result, in this blog, we will look at the intrinsic values of learning games and how they might help with cognitive growth. Engaging Young Minds: The Power of Educational Bini Games for Cognitive Growth Cognitive development develops at a surprising rate during a child’s early years.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One is physical development, including gross motor skills, which allow kids to run, hop and skip, as well as fine motor skills, which help children hold a pencil or use scissors. Another is cognitive development, such as reasoning and problem-solving.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

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. Just like math or literacy, social emotional skills and mindsets build toward more complex skills - like self-direction, curiosity and purpose - as students develop.

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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. Alexa Cruz is a writer and editor with a passion for teaching.

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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. Those with a passion for technology can explore fields like HVAC, automotive repair, or industrial automation. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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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”. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. Neuroscience-based interventions, such as the Fast ForWord software program, can also help build cognitive capacity, including working memory, attention and processing skills.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Everest Knowledge Through Experience The influence of constructivist theories has been instrumental in shaping PBL, from Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, which argues that knowledge is constructed through experiences and interactions , to Leslie P.

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MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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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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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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MARCH 15, 2019

As students enter high school, it appears the emphasis may shift too much on the side of cognitive development and not enough on the social-emotional side. And it characterizes social-emotional learning as the missing piece of education.

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Teach Hub

MARCH 20, 2024

Despite the widespread use of technology in the classroom, handwriting remains an essential skill for academic success. Cultivating neat penmanship among elementary students can prove challenging since students’ fine motor skills can develop at different stages. While visual learners can use visual aids or charts as a model to emulate.

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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. Teachers change brains. To understand how teachers change the brain, we need to begin with a reasonably new understanding of the biology of learning.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Nathan Holbert, an associate professor of Communication, Media and Learning Technology Design at Teachers College, Columbia University says the market is saturated with “poorly designed, thoughtless, apping experiences,” and it may prove difficult to find games teaching academic skills.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Using technology to improve and expand teaching methods can help students learn about music quicker and give them a variety of different learning techniques. Music teaching is benefitting enormously from the evolution of technology. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development. Innovative Piano Apps.

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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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MAY 18, 2020

And research shows that children who eat nutritious meals, especially breakfast, are more available to learning and cognitive development. It’s hard for students to focus on academics—or really anything else—if they’re hungry. Lunch ladies are often the unsung heroes of the school,” says Kujawa. It’s very rewarding.”

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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 One is marketing technology directly to the country’s enormous public school market. I think that will be a huge problem going forward.” We’re trying to learn from the new policies.

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Research from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine shows that physical activity can have academic benefits, stimulating kids’ cognitive development and improving their learning outcomes. “It’s a developmentally critical behavior through which kids learn.”

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AUGUST 3, 2016

My mentor and collaborator, Seymour Papert, was a brilliant mathematician, a distinguished computer scientist, an innovative learning theorist, a humanitarian and a visionary for technology-based education change to empower every children. In his view, there was hope for every child.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I teach technology, so I asked Lawrence Auble , a musician friend I’ve known for years, what he uses for tutoring. New Statistics Linking Music Education to Cognitive Development. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Art and music have long been considered the doorway to creative thinking.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

One of the few instances she uses technology is when she plays songs off YouTube for the children. The living room is adorned with spiders, witches and paper-plate pumpkins made by the kids in anticipation of Halloween. Unlike Bolden-Kramer, Whitesides does not use a third-party organization for administrative support.

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Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

In today’s technology-driven classrooms , art remains an important component of student development. From fostering cognitive abilities and emotional resilience to enhancing academic performance and learning lifelong skills, art class provides much more than just a creative outlet.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

That’s why one group of researchers asked what can be done to close the cognitive development distance that opens between children from high- and low-income families, which they argue is a watershed in equality of opportunity.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Her youngest, a 10-year-old daughter, wears a Gizmo watch, only hers comes with all the technological advancements and upgrades accumulated over the prior years: photo and video capture, video calling, access to a full keyboard for texting, voice messaging, group chats, geofencing, and up to 20 parent-approved phone numbers. It’s cheaper.”

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