Researchers at the University of Oregon, in partnership with a consulting firm, will begin a pilot program this spring that uses virtual reality to help teachers recognize implicit bias in how they discipline students. The program will teach educators skills such as breathing techniques to reduce disproportionate disciplinary actions against minority students.
Vem avgör om Kvibergsskolan med öppna miljöer och surfplattor är framtidens skola? Rektor? Politiker? Tjänstemän? Svaret är – hjärnan. För läsprocessen fungerar på ett förutbestämt sätt; precis som skrivprocessen och inlärning. Och hjärnan reagerar på ett förutbestämt sätt på olika störningar. Det gäller gammal som ung, skriver Tomas Dalström, författare och journalist.
Parents can face challenges when helping students with digital homework, asserts Devorah Heitner, an expert on digital citizenship and parent engagement. In this blog post, she shares tips for empowering parents to support digital homework.
The verdict is still out on how technology affects brain development, asserts developmental molecular biologist John Medina. In this commentary, he examines recent research, noting that "there's both good news and bad news."
A Florida school launched Active Learning Environments five years ago - bringing high-tech, student-driven education to its classrooms. In this blog post, Chad Lewis, the school's director of technology, shares three practices educators use to keep the student-led learning on track.
Tools like Expeditions, SAM and Lifeliqe connect kids to the greater world using augmented and virtual reality, while PocketLabs allows students to collect data for scientific experiments.
EU-kommissionen har tagit fram ett verktyg för hela unionen: SELFIE: Self-reflection tool for digitally capable schools. I den kan skolor se hur långt de kommit med digitaliseringen jämfört med andra skolor i Europa som använder Selfie.