education

Oct
04
Moving past the marshmallow test to predict future success

Moving past the marshmallow test to predict future success

Kindergarten children whose teachers rate them as being highly inattentive tend to earn less in their 30s than classmates who
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Jun
08
A child's educational success is dependent on their background

A child's educational success is dependent on their background

Children of similar cognitive ability have very different chances of educational success; it still depends on their parents’ economic, socio-cultural
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Sep
27
Does edtech improve or harm education?

Does edtech improve or harm education?

Multimedia technologies penetrate into various spheres of educational activity. The spread of innovations is facilitated by external factors associated with
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Jun
15
Waiting for the future of education

Waiting for the future of education

Serious people sometimes make silly predictions. Source: The Future of Education Will Never Arrive History is littered with failed experiments,
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Nov
29
How the downfall of retail relates to education

How the downfall of retail relates to education

In “The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America,” the Berkshire Hathaway CEO lays out a problem that plagues
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Nov
11
Fixing education will not be with video

Fixing education will not be with video

Kids, and adults, can certainly learn stuff from watching videos of the type Green produces (and I have). But those
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Aug
05
Does your classroom make learning visible? – EDUWELLS

Does your classroom make learning visible? – EDUWELLS

I had a brief conversation with a 12 year old boy this month that went as follows: TEACHER: “WHAT’S
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