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Kids and Screen Time: What Does the Research Say?
By Juana Summers Original Source: NPR.org Originally posted August 28, 2014 Kids are spending more time than ever in front of screens, and it may be inhibiting their ability to recognize emotions, according to new research out of the University of California, Los Angeles. The study, published in the journal Computers ... Read More
Bloom’s Taxonomy Saves the Day
“Read this chapter for tomorrow, and be prepared to discuss it.” Students hear sentences like this one over and over in school, but what does it mean to be prepared to discuss a text? Often it means to be ready to answer the teacher’s questions, but how do teachers come ... Read More
Curing Essay Writing Ills Instantly
It’s 7:00 PM, you just got home from work, you’re trying to juggle serving dinner, and your child asks you to help him write a paper on rocks. Rocks? Who knows anything about rocks? As the parent, your mind is spinning from all the things that need to be taken ... Read More
Math Needs Reading and Writing
I clearly remember those high school days as a student in a classroom with at least thirty-five classmates. As an introverted person, I also remember thinking to myself: “If I do not understand something, I will wait to go home and read the textbook; that should be enough.” To my ... Read More
Addicted to Numbers?
If I were allowed to instantaneously eradicate one bad habit among physics students, I would choose their addiction to numbers. That is, the propensity of many students to plug numbers into an equation at the first opportunity. I think that this addiction stems from several factors: fear of algebra, the ... Read More