“In the end, with this bilingualism, children do not learn English or Spanish.” Who has not heard, on leaving school or at a bar counter, reasoning of this type? This concern goes beyond purely informal settings and is shared even by teachers. In 2009, a study revealed how some Spanish language and literature teachers were reluctant to coordinate their […] … learn more→
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Why freemium software has no place in our classrooms
Digital teaching and communication tools are increasingly present in kindergarten to Grade 12 classrooms. By April 2020, not long after the onset of the pandemic, Google Classroom had doubled its users to more than 100 million. For educational technology companies, the pandemic accelerated opportunities to grow markets and profits. Whether for facilitating learning, assessing learning or communicating […] … learn more→
Edtech is treating students like products. Here’s how we can protect children’s digital rights
Schools’ use of educational technologies (edtech) grew exponentially at the height of COVID lockdowns. A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has exposed children’s rights violations by providers of edtech endorsed by governments in Australia and overseas. The lockdowns have ended but edtech remains embedded in education. Children will have to navigate issues of data privacy in […] … learn more→
Employee education and development: Top reasons to introduce regular IT training in your company
As technology and the internet advance, business strategies and processes improve, causing businesses to look for the best ways to align their employees with these changes. Modern employees need new abilities, values, skills, and knowledge to cope with the latest shifts in their respective industries. Employee training has become paramount for developing a new range […] … learn more→
ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research
For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when medicated. After all, an estimated 6.1 million children in the U.S. are diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and more than 90% are prescribed stimulant medication as the main form of treatment in school settings. However, […] … learn more→
Why do students with disability go to ‘special schools’ when research tells us they do better in the mainstream system?
This week, the disability royal commission is looking at the experiences of children and young people with disability in different schools across Australia. This includes mainstream schools as well as so-called “special schools”. An estimated 10% of school students (aged 5–18) in Australia have a disability, although this number is much higher in some states. Most of these students […] … learn more→
School diversity: what can “gender-neutral” playgrounds bring?
While co-education represents enormous progress compared to a previous situation of gender segregation which led to greater inequalities than today, its introduction was not enough to give the same opportunities to girls and boys. Many works have shown that it is not enough to decree gender diversity (even if it is necessary) for the gendered division of knowledge, […] … learn more→
Can Bionic Reading make you a speed reader? Not so fast
What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could make reading a breeze, improving your focus, speed and comprehension? That’s the claim made by the creators of Bionic Reading, an app that revises texts so that the most concise parts of the words are “highlighted.” Doing so, according to the makers of the […] … learn more→
This is our neighborhood: artistic actions that teach art and citizenship
Various modes of restitution make it possible to cross the glances. Here, a small exhibition was designed by the participants from sheets they filled in on their teaching practices. Provided by the author[/caption] Can you imagine meeting one day, walking through your neighborhood, dozens of boys and girls accompanied by university students in search of […] … learn more→
Here’s how much learning South African children lost in the pandemic
When a state of disaster was declared in South Africa in 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic, a hard lockdown was instituted and schools were shut. This was followed by varying periods of lockdowns, school closure and rotational timetables to maintain social distancing across different grades. Administrative data show that children in South Africa missed at least […] … learn more→
