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Elon Musk announces Global Learning XPRIZE dual winners
The aim of the prize, which launched five years ago, was to develop educational technology to remote villages in underdeveloped countries using inexpensive tablet computers.
How YOU Can Be an Advocate for Early Learning
Rhian Allvin, Executive Director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, explains how YOU can raise your voice to support the early ...
For Adults, Lifelong Learning Happens The Old Fashioned Way
Even after high school or college, Americans keep on learning. While online tools make this easier than ever, a new study finds the vast majority of adults prefer taking classes in physical places.
A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done
When teachers want to try something new in the classroom, it helps if they can see what it looks like in action. They could ask another teacher down the hall. Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. But too often, these aspiring innovators …
How Teachers Are Turning to Social Media to Extend Learning
Teachers are expanding the school day and enhancing learning through social media.
Failure Is Essential to Learning
To help these kids make the kinds of gains they need to master the Common Core, students must learn to receive feedback and also how to use it to improve.
3 rules to spark learning
It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teaching" to understand the true role of the educator: to cultivate curiosity. In a fun and personal talk, Musallam gives 3 rules to spark imagination and learning, and get students excited about how the world works.
The Role of Metacognition in Learning and Achievement
Learning how to think about thinking can help students develop strategies for solving problems and understand tasks at hand.
The Importance of STEAM Learning
If you are familiar with the technology or educational sectors, you have undoubtedly heard that STEM, which is educational focus in science, tech, engineering and math, is being changed to STEAM, to include the arts. This is an initiative that is being accepted on an increasing scale by institutions, corporations, and education and tech professionals,and we here at Vidcode are totally on board<br>STEAM learning is…
The Building Blocks of Learning
The good news in education is that attention is finally turning to the psychic and emotional qualities that children bring to the classroom.
Does Teacher Diversity Matter in Student Learning?
Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.
Homework: High-Quality Learning, or Act of Compliance?
Homework has been a controversial issue for a long time. Some teachers use it to extend learning while others seem to use it to promote compliance. How do you use homework?
Discipline Through the Lens of Deeper Learning
Rich opportunities for deeper learning reside in the interactions between adults and students about behavior and life choices.
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Learning Disabilities And ADHD
By Amanda Morin<br>In a recent survey by the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), nearly everyone asked had heard of dyslexia. But only o...
4 Secrets to Learning Anything, According to Neuroscience
Learning is no longer something we just do in schools.
14 classroom management strategies to increase student learning
When the right classroom management tools are in place, students are able to learn more as their engagement increases.<br>Focusing on physical classroom management, behavioral management, resources…
Teachers tap into brain science to boost learning
Research on the brain and how we think and act is influencing the way some teachers teach. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters goes into a classroom where the instructor uses different methods to engage different parts of the students’ brains, then checks with a neuroscientist about whether that strategy actually works.
4 Examples of Personalized Learning in K-12 Education
How teachers are finding new ways to meet each individual student’s needs, skills, and interests.
