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Ensuring your child’s brain is active in school through a good night sleep

Neo LMS

Primary and secondary school students in America are among the most sleep-deprived in the world. A link was also found between the behavior and proficiency in STEM subjects as well as reading and language subjects. And it becomes an even bigger issue when they have to take exams. The research.

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3 apps that lead to improved executive functioning skills

eSchool News

Executive functioning skills are the foundation of academic success in college, but similar to ‘soft skills’ in the workplace, are often not explicitly taught in secondary education. Technology and smartphone apps allow students to bring executive functioning tools with them into their classrooms and dorm rooms on campus.

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7 innovative 3D printers for the classroom

eSchool News

In fact, from 2011 to 2015, government business intelligence company Onvia awarded $1,809,298 in 3D printer and supply contracts to 44 primary, secondary and higher education institutions and school districts across the United States. Featured on eSchool News Resource STEM Top News 3D printers construction engineering maker movement'

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Georgia State Professor—and Student Success Innovator—Awarded McGraw Prize in Education

Edsurge

In the past, for example, a STEM student would get a low grade in a math course. Now when a student is taking that first quiz, if they didn’t do well on it and especially if they are a STEM major, there’s an alert that goes off. Chris Anderson, Curator, TED. Sal Khan, Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academy.

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COVID-19 Forces Science Labs Online and in Homes

Edsurge

MEL Science, a London-based company whose products include chemistry kits for primary and secondary schoolchildren coupled with digital tools, has seen about seven times the number of new subscribers this month compared to April 2019, says CEO Vassili Philippov. This will turn into a long-term interest, I hope,” he says.

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Jay-Z, Kanye, and MLK—Using Lyrics and Literary Devices to Teach Students to Write

Edsurge

These are very same literary concepts that we ask our students to learn in primary and secondary English classes. They’re texting on their smartphones—more than they actually talk on them. And their grammar school curriculum is based more and more on learning code languages via STEM concentrations. What happens if. ?

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Careless posts on social media spark physical fights

The Hechinger Report

The massive fight, it turned out, stemmed from a long-simmering rivalry between groups of girls, and had been largely instigated and planned through a steady stream of posts on social media apps like Twitter, Instagram, Kik and Snapchat. Related: A class of teenagers gave up smartphones for a week, and lived. More teens kept arriving.