How Robots in English Class Can Spark Empathy and Improve Writing
Mention robots to many English teachers and they’ll immediately point down the hall to the science classroom or to the makerspace, if they have one....
For Special Needs Students, Focus on SEL Critical
Social-emotional interventions are especially key to academic success, experts say. It is widely accepted that there is a teacher shortage in the United States, but...
Schoolchildren with disabilities face digital gap
Strides in special education have not caught up with technology, leaving disabled students in the digital dust as their peers type and swipe through daily...
Robotics Can Get Girls Into STEM, but Some Still Need Convincing
When her high school in Grosse Ile, Michigan, started a co-ed robotics team dubbed The Wired Devils, Maya Pandya thought she’d give it a try....
Future of Education: Robot Teachers Are In!
Kids will soon be facing robotic teachers and more virtual learning. Is this a good sign for the educational sector? Learn more about...
When Tech Meets Project-Based Learning
Almost 20 years ago, when Paul Curtis was a social studies teacher at the just-opened New Technology High School in Napa, Calif., there wasn’t much...
This Is the Tech That Will Make Learning as Addictive as Video Games
The way we learn today is just wrong. Learning needs to be less like memorization, and more like…Angry Birds. Half of school dropouts name boredom...
Building a Nation of Makers
From June 17 through 23, our nation celebrates the National Week of Making. This week recognizes that makers, builders and doers – of all ages...
Applying Learning to Teaching and Teaching to Learning
In a class session for my doctoral program over the weekend, the professors asked that we share our greatest learning moment from our first year...
Simple Numbers Game Seems to Make Kids Better at Math
Although math skills are considered notoriously hard to improve, Johns Hopkins University researchers boosted kindergarteners’ arithmetic performance simply by exercising their intuitive number sense with...