The EdTech Advisory Forum had responded to the Education Select Committee call for view on ‘The Impact of Covid-19 on education and Children’s Service’ by producing this report. EdTech Vision 2025 celebrates what we do well; but is frank about where we need to improve on support for education technology and digital skills. (pdf)

When students’ eyes are opened to the broad community of mathematicians, they reject stereotypes and gain confidence in their own abilities.

An educator started "An Anonymous Teacher Speaks" project on Twitter last Friday, which offers the realities of teaching during the coronavirus pandemic. In this interview, the educator who posted the messages says teachers share their frustrations, which are added to Twitter without their names.

Schools should rethink the use of data and standardized testing, which often produces results too late for teachers to change strategies to help students, according to Jennifer Blatz, StriveTogether. In this article, Blatz writes about how short-cycle evaluation models can quickly provide teachers with data they can use to help improve the learning of students.

Det behövs mer diskussion om hur flerspråkighet ska användas i skolan. Om vi verkligen använder det som en resurs kan fler elever klara sig bättre i skolan. Det menar forskaren Adrian Lundberg som jämfört synen på flerspråkighet inom skolan i Sverige och i Schweiz.

Børn med ADHD sover væsentligt bedre, når de har en kugledyne over sig om natten. Det viser dansk forskning offentliggjort i JSciMed Central. Samtidig blev børnenes adfærdsmæssige problemer i skoletiden halveret i de otte uger, børnene deltog i forsøget.

Førskolebørn med ADHD har en dårligere livskvalitet end andre børn, viser forskning. Men deres livskvalitet kan forbedres væsentligt med en målrettet indsats til forældrene. ”På lang sigt kan det have stor betydning for børnenes prognose”, siger forsker Liva Bundgaard Larsen fra Aarhus Universitet til au.dk.

Mellem 5 og 10 procent af alle børn rammes af angst, og for mange bliver angsten en livslang følgesvend, som fører til store sociale problemer og forhindrer udbytte af skole og uddannelse.

Back to the future of education: Four OECD Scenarios for Schooling is a tool to support long-term strategic thinking in education. Inspired by the ground-breaking 2001 OECD Schooling for Tomorrow scenarios, these scenarios can help identify potential opportunities and challenges and stress-test against unexpected shocks. We can then use those ideas to help us better…

Math can be a daunting subject to teach for elementary-school teachers who took few courses on the subject in college. Become a confident instructor by showing students several approaches to problem-solving -- and don't be afraid to keep learning yourself with professional development or other methods, writes Elaine Keeley, a curriculum, instruction, and staff development…

Now we know the reason why middle school kids are this way, and it has more to do with neurotransmitters than with hormones. The past 20 years of research in adolescent brain development has provided an entirely new way of understanding why adolescents—and young adolescents in particular—are the skittish, suspicious, status-conscious, peer-hungry creatures that they…

Taking regular breaks may help to support learning, says John Sweller, a leading learning science researcher. Sweller says the brain's ability to retain information in "working memory" is limited, and if students are having "trouble understanding something, what we mean is that their working memory is overwhelmed."