Teaching Ideas
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.
Teaching Ideas
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.
Teaching Ideas
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.
News
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.
News
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?
News
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.
News
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.
News
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.
Teaching Ideas
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.
Digital Tools
Seven genuinely useful free digital tools for teachers, from interactive maths and diagrams to classroom timers, audio recording and quick image editing.
Teaching Ideas
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.