Today’s students see themselves as digital natives, the first generation to grow up surrounded by technology like smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Teachers, parents and policymakers
Students are more likely to pay attention if they have the motivation to do so, according to research by psychologists Barbara Rogoff and Maricela Correa-Chavez.
Today, 98% of households with 2- to 8-year-old children include a mobile device, like smartphones, tablets, and iPods or other smart-mobile devices, an increase from
Neurologically, the affective networks of the brain are interconnected with strategic and perceptual networks. We cannot separate emotion from cognition. To get to high-level learning,
The marshmallow test is one of the most famous pieces of social-science research: Put a marshmallow in front of a child, tell her that she
Social and emotional abilities are said to be indicators of how well a person adjusts to his or her environment, adapts to change and, ultimately,
The historic “marshmallow test” has tied young children’s ability to delay gratification to their long-term success, but a new, larger study replicating the famous study
Connecting service learning to school-based lessons can help boost retention and build social and emotional skills, says Laura Walker, a professor at Brigham Young University.
Students need to be pushed beyond reading comprehension exercises to learn how to analyze and critique text, writes Rebecca Alber, an instructor at UCLA’s Graduate
Fourth-graders at a Michigan school started and ran their own businesses in a project-based learning exercise that had them selling products to raise money for
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