“In front of a screen, the child is passive. He is dumbfounded, literally, and he does not learn anything “are the words of a brutal lucidity that the neuropsychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik holds in an interview given to Le Monde , at the” Assises de la maternelle “held in Paris last March. Our society is digitizing itself, it’s no […] … learn more→

I’ve written before that college graduate IQ is in freefall; within a decade it’s quite possible that the IQ of a college graduate will be below average. But what happens if “average” a decade ago is higher than it is today? The Great Endumbening IQ scores look to be on the decline. Is there a […] … learn more→

Children are involved in scientific thinking and activities before they even enter the classroom. They seek knowledge in various ways: stabbing, pulling, tasting, hitting, shaking and trying. This shows the natural needs in each child to learn and find problems to solve . By creating opportunities to observe and move through games, children’s scientific thinking can be aroused. Playing offers a valuable […] … learn more→

Neuroscience has found a clear relationship between music and language acquisition. Bluntly: learning music in the early years of schooling can help children learn to read. Both activities share a network superimposed on the brain. From an evolutionary perspective, the human brain developed the acquisition of music much earlier than that of language and then used that […] … learn more→

It is high time that the learning of curiosity prevails over that of submission. This is the “credo” on which Learn in the 21st century is based , the important and fascinating contribution that François Taddei has just made to the reflection on the future of the school and the issues of knowledge. If we want to progress towards a “learning […] … learn more→

At the beginning of this school year, it wasn’t just children who were grumbling about homework. A despairing comment on social media by comedian Rob Delaney about the amount demanded of his children sparked much debate – and plenty of support from frustrated parents. Not everyone agrees of course. According to the Campaign for Real Education […] … learn more→

Migrants  ? Refugees? Exiles? Asylum seekers  ? The Prefect talks about asylum seekers. I will use the term refugees for simplicity now. At the end of August 2018, the Prefect is looking for a gymnasium to welcome for three weeks refugees to leave a gymnasium in the city of Évry. In agreement with the president of the University Paris-Sud and the director of the UFR STAPS , the Prefect thus […] … learn more→

“But there are no peer reviewed papers disputing global warming.” 20ish years ago, when global warming was being crammed down our throats every day, the above was often cited as “proof” that climate warming was real. Climategate 1.0 exposed the reason for the lack of such studies was because pressure was being placed on journals […] … learn more→

If you’re a researcher in any field, chances are you want people to find, read and use your stuff, right? You probably want them to continue finding it, using it and correctly attributing it to you, whether it’s twenty days or twenty years after publication. In our current state of digital deluge, we’re pretty good […] … learn more→

How to interest 16-year-olds in the first world conflict other than by reading hairy letters or the eternal visit to a war memorial? How to make the violence of war and its consequences palpable in a region at the opposite end of the line? These two questions are at the origin of an educational experiment conducted […] … learn more→