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... w up, with a little common sense and a lot of curiosity.

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

A TimeMap is an interactive graphic showing change over ... is linked to descriptions of the change being shown.
The TimeMap of World History covers human history at dif ...
We also have a growing range of Topic TimeMaps which tak ...

In higher education, it's not how much time you spend wi... what you do with it that should count
What is a contact hour? How does a lecture with 70 other ...

The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.
Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

Anxious about the widespread consumption and spread of p... news during this year’s election cycle, many progressi... an increased commitment to media literacy programs. Othe... for solutions that focus on expert fact-checking and lab... these appro

the rate of learning among students doesn’t actually differ all that much. Instead, what differs mostly between students is their prior knowledge.[1]

Education is what survives when what has been learned ha... B. F. Skinner

“A lot of the designers and coders who were in their 2... creating these things didn’t have kids. Now they have ... “And they see what’s going on, and they say, ‘Wait... they start to rethink their design decisions.”
And it’s not just tha

Students are Astonishingly Similar in Learning Rate.
Whereas initial knowledge varies substantially across students, we found learning rate to be astonishingly similar across students.

Reading frequency is also at a historic low, with 20.5% of eight- to 18-year-olds reporting reading daily in their free time, compared with 28% last year.
The gender gap in reading enjoyment has widened, with 28.2% of boys aged eight to 18 ...

Is it possible there are modes of attention that a younger generation is developing that might be difficult for those of us who are older to value, but which bring new types of benefit? What of the rapid, quick-fire, written exchanges of in...

Examining the relationship between parental income and that of their offspring in their mid-30s, the study confirms the obvious: richer parents beget richer kids.
More interesting is how economic outcomes of those from low-, middle- and top...

Lord Blunkett, education secretary from 1997 to 2001, added: “Sure Start was always one of those programmes that the public yearned for, but politicians rarely deliver. Namely, a long-term policy without short-term electoral gain, but tra...

Child psychology studies have identified a natural human bias toward the theory of intelligent design, and pose a solution: teach evolution earlier

Seine-Port, in the Seine-et-Marne area south of Paris, with a population of fewer than 2,000 people, last weekend voted yes in a referendum to restrict smartphone use in public,