Educators increasingly are using social media, according to Noelene Callaghan, a technology teacher at a high school in Australia. Callaghan shares several resources to help educators manage their school's social media accounts.

In honor of Connected Educator Month, SmartBrief on EdTech recently asked readers what tools, events and social media platforms they rely on to connect and collaborate with their peers.

Forty-one percent of 183 children ages 6 and younger with mental health issues met the criteria for a sleep problem, particularly sleep onset insomnia, according to a study in the journal Child Psychiatry & Human Development.

Professor Daniel Willingham discusses four useful study techniques, each with a substantial research base of both laboratory and classroom studies.

Inquiry-based learning is not a new pedagogy, but it has come back into fashion in progressive education circles recently. High school students at Science Leadership Academy explain what they value in their education.

Annual school tests for children aged seven to 14 are causing so much stress some pupils are refusing to go to school, a survey finds.

A growing number of countries worldwide are adopting the Singapore-style maths education following widespread praise of the teaching style and the country's continued success on international exams.

Australian students as young as age 4 could learn a second language. It follows growing evidence a second language can improve student’s overall academic performance.

Music therapy yielded more improvements in communication and interaction skills among youths with emotional, developmental and behavioural issues compared with usual care, Irish researchers found.

Connecting robots to the cloud could take artificial intelligence to a new level, says Ken Goldberg, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

A growing number of school districts are embracing computer coding amid suggestions from some educators and industry experts that such classes should be required learning.

Word-processing software may help improve students' writing quality, according to a recent review of about 250 studies on writing instruction.