Young children's math skills can improve with the use of cognitive exercises that focus on reasoning and visual memory, says Torkel Klingberg, author of a study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The benefits of spatial rotation were also highlighted in the study.
The quality of students' devices - particularly the age of the device and device specifications - significantly affect their remote-learning experience, according to a report from the Consortium for School Networking. The report finds these factors affected upload and download speeds.
Research suggests that online learning has been shown to increase retention of information, and take less time, meaning the changes coronavirus have caused might be here to stay.
Students can become better questioners if teachers help them develop and nurture their skills, their will and their thrill for devising thoughtful queries, author and consultant Jackie Acree Walsh writes in this blog post. Walsh also explains the differences among and necessity of self-questions, academic questions, exploratory questions and dialogical questions.