A lot of people talk about making learning fun. I think they have it basically wrong. When you’re having fun, you’re learning something. It could be learning something trivial – significant only in ...

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Music is the universal language. It fills us with emotion and fosters imagination. What is the place of music in education, especially at a time when the arts are being severely cut from many ...

On a recent afternoon in June, a line of kids between the ages of 5 and 13 snaked back from the door at the edge of classroom at St. Anthony's Catholic School in East Oakland, California. Some jumped ...

When one thinks about using technology to support learning, the typical types of spaces we think of are traditional classrooms, media centers or STEM labs. After all, it’s easy to imagine how ...

A large percentage of students are starting the school year the same way they ended it — via computer screen. And most of them aren’t too pleased about it. They miss their friends and the routine of ...

Educational games, or “edutainment games,” have a reputation for being terrible. Many ’90s kids, myself included, had plenty of edutainment games lurking around in their homes and schools that their ...

This is Lauren Drazen's tenth year teaching Chinese at Hall High School, one of the two public high schools in West Hartford, Connecticut. Hall offers Chinese in grades 9–12, in levels I through AP.

Learning with books is one thing. Learning with your hands and by exploring? It's even better. Ask any child. With just weeks until kids across Michigan strap on their backpacks and head back to ...

These days, many children spend too much time on their phones, mostly watching entertainment instead of learning. This excessive screen time can make it harder for them to pay attention, especially ...

A lot of people talk about making learning fun. I think they have it basically wrong. When you’re having fun, you’re learning something. It could be learning something trivial – significant only in ...