5 ways for students to deal with stress during finals
December is a stressful time for everyone, but for students this time of year contains the monsters of all anxiety...
Computational Thinking and why its important for kids
Computational Thinking (CT) is emerging as a new key intellectual skill for children. In a 2021 ACM paper called Computational...
3 reasons Social Emotional Learning is Vital
Social Emotional Learning has become one of the “hot buzzwords” in education and EdTech, but at its core, it has...
Big Data and student performance: Insights from an LMS
In our recent story about Google buying BrightBytes, there was a lot of discussion about what kind of data is...
Surveillance and security is hurting student performance
We reported that surveillance is more likely to target low income students, new science published in the journal of criminal...
3 Ways to Overcome Learning Loss
We are living in interesting times for education. With the pandemic winding down, schools and districts are pushing for accelerated...
Biden makes all Federally funded research open to the public by 2026
Back in 2013 Barack Obama worked out a compromise between advocates for free and open research and s scientific publishing...
The Online Course Design Checklist
One of the things that ISTE has highlighted is the issues that so many teachers face when wondering why their...
The Metaverse Could Make Education More Fun
A group of Middle School students enjoyed a VR trip to Greenland more than students in a 2D video lesson....
8 Ways to Interact with Science Online
Often the best way to understand and learn about complicated scientific ideas is to be able to see and interact...