Teaching Ideas
A 2025 meta-analysis of 62 studies found that different kinds of student engagement appear to serve different purposes, from achievement and motivation to social support and well-being.
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Napster has partnered with GEMS Education to build AI “digital twins” of teachers, giving students access to teacher-informed support outside school hours.
Digital Tools
Explore Netboard.me through two classroom examples: an interactive Ancient Egypt resource hub and a collaborative climate project for students.
Teaching Ideas
A 2025 meta-analysis of 102 studies found that online professional development can meaningfully improve teacher knowledge and classroom practice, but the effect on students is much smaller.
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Microsoft and major U.S. teacher unions have agreed on enforceable AI privacy rules for schools, including a ban on using student data to train AI models.
Teaching Ideas
Language learning often comes with a long list of activities. Vocabulary exercises. Grammar drills. Listening practice. Speaking tasks. Writing assignments. But there is a much simpler approach that has been around for decades: Read a lot. Not difficult texts that need to be translated sentence by sentence. Not short passages
Digital Tools
Schools and universities have spent decades adding technology to learning. Laptops replaced notebooks. Videos replaced some lectures. Digital quizzes replaced paper tests. Interactive platforms replaced static worksheets. But there is a surprisingly important question underneath all of this: Does adding technology actually improve learning? A large research synthesis tried to
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The latest PISA results are out, and the headline is not encouraging. Across OECD countries, average performance in reading and mathematics has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded by PISA. Reading scores are now 28 points lower than in 2015, which the OECD describes as roughly one and a
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Every school has books that students are expected to read. Some become lifelong favourites. Some are remembered mainly because there was a test afterwards. This week, The Guardian asked a group of leading authors a deceptively simple question: Which novel should every school teach? Their answers were varied, personal and
Teaching Ideas
Add a diagram. Break the lesson into smaller sections. Highlight important words. Add narration. Use animation. Turn it into a simulation. Make it interactive. Teachers and instructional designers have been given advice like this for decades. But which of these changes actually help students learn? A 2025 meta-analysis revisited
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A student is clicking, earning badges and completing levels. The app says they are engaged. But are they actually learning? A new report from the American Psychological Association says schools and families should be careful not to confuse the two. Published on September 3, the report argues that educational technology
Teaching Ideas
A review of 66 studies found that media multitasking is usually associated with slightly worse academic performance, but also revealed a major gap in what we know about younger students.