News tagged with classroom style
Could the Internet spell the end of snow days?
(AP) -- Could the Internet mean the end of snow days? Some schools think so, and they are experimenting with ways for students to do lessons online during bad weather, potentially allowing classes to go on ...
May 18, 2011 |
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All work and no play makes for troubling trend in early education
Parents and educators who favor traditional classroom-style learning over free, unstructured playtime in preschool and kindergarten may actually be stunting a child's development instead of enhancing it, according ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 12, 2009 |
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'It's not nutritious until it's eaten'
As part of her "Let's Move! Initiative," First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled a new web resource highlighting new changes in the Chefs Move to Schools, during a CMST gathering in Dallas, TX today. CMTS advocates ...
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3Qs: An Apple for the teacher - and student
Last week Apple announced two new eReader platforms – iBooks and iAuthor – that the electronics giant hopes will modernize learning and “reinvent textbooks.” Northeastern University news ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Discovering Autism: An industry built on hope
In 1987, Ivar Lovaas, a charismatic UCLA psychology professor, published what remains the most famous study on the treatment of autism.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Study of comic books helps Stanford scholars identify cultural trends
Robots and mythical creatures battle each other in cartoon-like drawings spread across a table. A crowd gathers around to take a closer look at the vibrantly colored images from the pages of the award-winning ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Middle-class elementary school students ask for help more often than their working-class peers
Middle-class children ask their teachers for help more often and more assertively than working-class children and, in doing so, receive more support and assistance from teachers according to a study from the University of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 07, 2011 |
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College students limit technology use during crunch time: study
A new University of Washington study found college students – only weeks away from final exams and in the library – tend to pare use of electronics. It's their way to manage technology that permeates ...
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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Stanford summer course yields touchscreen Braille writer
Each summer, under the red-tiled roofs and sandstone of Stanford, the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) invites a select group of undergraduates from across the country gather for a two-month immersion ...
Oct 10, 2011 |
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With new Windows 8, Microsoft will show whether it can go mobile
The next version of Windows is being billed as a radical reinvention of Microsoft Corp.'s flagship operating system - the most extensive overhaul since Windows 95.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Parents misled by advocates of single-sex education
There is no scientific basis for teaching boys and girls separately, according to Lise Eliot from The Chicago Medical School. Her review reveals fundamental flaws in the arguments put forward by proponents of single-sex schools ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Free computer science courses, new teaching technology reinvent online education
Stanford Engineering professors are offering three of the school’s most popular computer science courses for free online this fall, and at the same time launching an experiment that could transform the ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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