A new study by Carnegie Mellon University looked at whether a highly decorated classroom encourage, or actually distract from learning. The study, one of the first to examine how the look of these walls affects young students.
The importance of high-quality professional development
Professional technology development and teacher readiness are a tough nut to crack. Teachers’ schedules are full of other important and often more urgent tasks, often relegating professional development in the field of technology to the teachers’ spare time. We have seen paid programs, free programs, government programs and many other initiatives fail because of a … Continue reading
How Search Has Changed Student Research
In her Edudemic post “How Google Has Changed Research For Grad Students”, Katie Lepi describes the difference in how pre-milennials and milennials did and do research. Seeing how much Google has changed student research shows again how important media literacy has become. Google is not only the most widely used search engine, but they’ve developed a … Continue reading
Why Active Kids Learn Better
The fact that humans (especially Americans) are steadily becoming more sedentary and obese is no secret. This information is all over the news, and there are tips and tricks everywhere to get people sitting less and moving more. While adults are often focused mainly on losing weight as their main outcome, the CDC recently put together … Continue reading
Google Glass and Technophobia: why understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship
As frequently occurs when disruptive change happens, the launch of Google Glass recently stirred a debate between Technophobiac and Technoforiacs on edrants.com. Technophobiacs tend to deny the trend or resist to it, for example by focusing on the dangers of the innovation. They may meanwhile forget that many of the features they dread are common … Continue reading
New World of Learning 