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A Teacher’s Guide to Philosophy for Children by Topping, Trickey, and Cleghorn is a short, comprehensive approach to coaching and engaging students in the process of thinking for themselves. Instead of being the giver of knowledge, teachers can focus on …

The idea that people learn better when taught in a way that matches their specific “learning style” — auditory, kinesthetic, visual or some combination of the three — is widely considered a myth.  Despite evidence, a large proportion of people …

Maintaining student’s attention is one of the constant challenges in virtual teaching. But that doesn’t appear to be an issue for gamers, who can regularly engage with audiences for long periods of time — sometimes upwards of 12 hours.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/zoom-fatigue-in-students-professor-on-twitch-says-take-a-lesson-from-gamers-1.5299216…

Teachers and administrators from pre-K through 12th grade named these tools their top picks for this year and beyond.

https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-teacher-picks-best-tech-tools…

The UAE, as an example of a country where students have access to devices, a quality internet service and a variety of educational platforms, was able to continue education in such tough circumstances as presented by the pandemic.

https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/education-during-a-pandemic-lessons-from-the-united-arab-emirates…

Becoming a super learner is one of the most important skills you need to succeed in the 21st century. In the age of technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education — a lifelong mastery of new models, skills and …

Imagining alternative futures for education pushes us to think through plausible outcomes and helps agile and responsive systems to develop. The OECD Scenarios for the Future of Schooling depict some possible alternatives.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/future-of-education-4-scenarios/…

We all have guilty pleasures. Fun fonts. Rainbow colors. Moving clip art. Patterned borders. But when does design support memory and learning, and when does it get in the way? Slide design, Bitmoji classrooms, learning management system banners, document layouts, …

Neuroscientists find that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/12/201215131236.htm…

The purpose of the study is to identify and compare the influence of formative and summative assessment approaches based on an intelligent computer system that provides automatic feedback; the assessment is carried out in paper format, but obtaining feedback requires …

Whether we like it or not, digital devices are everywhere. Some of us can barely put them down, even when we’re with cherished family and friends.

https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/centers-and-initiatives/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/about-hmni/archive-brain-0…

Wide Open School (WOS) is a platform developed by the leading non-profit for kids and families Common Sense media. WOS provides access to a wide range of resources designed specifically to help enhance the quality of distance learning. The work …

The Government of New Brunswick is trying to reach young people with posts and ads on social media. But some experts say the message might not be getting across.

https://www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5887866

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A new breed of web-based virtual environments offering proximity chat (also called spatial chat) mimic the possibility of speaking or collaborating with one or more peers while remaining in the same virtual space as the entire class group.

https://www.profweb.ca/en/publications/articles/bringing-more-spontaneous-interaction-to-the-virtual-classroom-with-proximity-chat…

Online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) are 2 collaborative strategies that can help students make meaning of the course content and relate to it in an authentic way. For this article I spoke with Patti Kingsmill to find an …