Posts tagged with: education-research
K-12 Online/Blended Learning Here To Stay
Among all the emerging trends in K-12 education, virtual or online schooling may well be the one experiencing fastest growth. more
Choosing the Right After-school Activities – an Evaluation Checklist
A handy checklist to help you pick the right after-school programs. more
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
On average, students in online learning conditions performed better than those receiving face-to-face instruction, says recent DoE report. more
Media multitaskers pay mental price, says Stanford study
Think you can watch videos, make cell phone calls and send e-mails all at once? Stanford experts say even trying can impair your cognitive control. more
Unraveling How Kids Become Bilingual So Easily
Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington, is part of a team of researchers trying to turn lessons from neuroscience into more teachable technology. more
Hey! Parents! Leave them kids alone!
As a generation, parents today love to interrogate their own and their children’s feelings. "Back off!" warns Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd. more
The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children’s Moral and Emotional Development
by Richard Weissbourd
Richard Weissbourd, psychologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, asserts that parents today are living in a “psychotherapeutic age. We are the generation that talks more about our feelings... more
Five Competencies for Adapting to a Changing World
— Dr. Helen Haste, visiting professor at the Harvard Grad School of Education, shares her take on 21st century "competencies". more
What educators can learn from brain research
— As technology advances, new discoveries based on brain mapping are helping researchers understand how students learn and are increasingly informing classroom practices. more
Study: Students want more online learning
Here is a report on a recent study whose findings while bewilderingly devoid of new insight do help in re-affirming a stock set of truisms that have come to be associated with online learning and its inevitable relevance to the current generation of K-12 students. more