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.
A 2025 meta-analysis of 23 studies found that student feedback can improve teaching, but the biggest gains came when teachers were helped to turn feedback into action.
A 2025 meta-analysis of 41 studies and 4,813 students found no significant overall difference between AI and human feedback. The details explain why the answer is more complicated than it sounds.
A 2025 meta-analysis of 32 studies found that peer feedback works better when students are given structured support, especially when they are taught how to give useful feedback.
An Australian university is using an AI chatbot in two compulsory psychology subjects. The experiment raises a bigger question about what students lose when human tutorials disappear.
New U.S. guidance offers a remarkably simple test for classroom technology: what problem does it solve, who should use it, and what evidence shows that it helps students learn?
UNESCO is bringing education ministers together to discuss AI, synthetic knowledge and the future of learning. The bigger question is what schools should protect as AI becomes more capable.
Google has expanded Gemini access to younger K–12 students. The bigger question for schools is not whether AI is available, but when students are ready to use it.
New York City and Los Angeles are restricting student access to generative AI. Their new policies raise a bigger question about where AI belongs in education.
Students spend a lot of time consuming information. Research suggests that explaining, drawing and creating materials for others can turn creation itself into part of learning.
Seven genuinely useful free digital tools for teachers, from interactive maths and diagrams to classroom timers, audio recording and quick image editing.
Students are going to use Wikipedia anyway. Instead of banning it, teachers can use it to teach source evaluation, research and digital literacy.
Teaching Ideas
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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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 improve learning, or does it just make lessons feel more like games? Recent research offers a surprisingly nuanced answer.
Teaching Ideas
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
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
Five useful EdTech tools worth exploring in 2026, from AI-assisted research and classroom engagement to organization, forms and interactive learning.
Teaching Ideas
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.
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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