Teaching Ideas
Why Students Forget What They Learn and What Teachers Can Do About It
Students can understand something today and forget it next week. Research on retrieval practice and spacing offers practical ways to make learning stick.
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News
The World Map Is Changing. What Does It Mean for Schools?
The UN has backed a move toward world maps that show Africa and other regions at their true relative size. For schools, the change could be a lesson in more than geography.
Teaching Ideas
Does Gamification Actually Help Students Learn? What the Research Says
Does gamification actually improve learning, or does it just make lessons feel more like games? Recent research offers a surprisingly nuanced answer.
Teaching Ideas
Handwriting vs Typing: What Actually Helps Students Learn?
Laptops and tablets have gradually replaced notebooks in many classrooms. It's easy to see why. Students can type faster, edit without rewriting, search their notes, collaborate with classmates and keep everything in one place. But there's a persistent question underneath all of this: Do students actually
Teaching Ideas
Are Students Spending Too Much Time on Screens? What the Latest Research Says
Ask teachers about technology in the classroom and one concern comes up again and again: students spend too much time looking at screens. In McGraw Hill's 2026 global survey of more than 1,300 educators, excessive screen time was ranked as the biggest obstacle to student success worldwide.
Digital Tools
5 EdTech Tools Worth Exploring in 2026
Five useful EdTech tools worth exploring in 2026, from AI-assisted research and classroom engagement to organization, forms and interactive learning.
Teaching Ideas
What Makes EdTech Actually Work? 9 Things Researchers Found Across 189 Studies
Schools have spent years buying devices, subscribing to platforms and experimenting with new classroom technology. But there's an awkward question underneath all of it: What actually makes educational technology improve learning? In 2025, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) published a large review that tried to answer exactly that.
AI
AI in Education: 7 Key Takeaways from the OECD’s 267-Page Report
AI can help students produce better work. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re learning more. That may be the most important takeaway from the OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026, a 267-page report published in January that looks at emerging evidence on generative AI in education. The report is
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Teaching has never been short of tools. The harder part is figuring out which ones are actually useful. Digital Teacher Notes is a place to explore practical ideas for teaching and learning with technology. We'll look at ways to organize and share resources, create engaging learning materials, use