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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Students are going to use Wikipedia anyway. Instead of banning it, teachers can use it to teach source evaluation, research and digital literacy.
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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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Does gamification actually improve learning, or does it just make lessons feel more like games? Recent research offers a surprisingly nuanced answer.
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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
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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.