The Connection Between Violent Video Games, Racial Bias and School Shootings
(ABC News)
When a school shooting hits the news, are we more likely to blame violent video games if the shooter is white?
The Wrong Conversation About School Shootings
(Vice)
But he added that checklists weren’t an ideal way to identify potential shooters, because they would produce too many false positives—a lot of people, and a lot of teens in particular, are alienated or depressed. A better rule of thumb, he told VICE, was to tell kids to talk to an adult “if you’re scared of someone, or if you’re scared for someone.”
How to Create Deeper Student Learning Experiences Through Authentic Questions
(Mind/Shift)
Allowing real curiosity—the kind that fuels philosophers, artists, scientists, historians, explorers, and innovators—is the most fundamental change we can make in our teaching practice.
How Bullying May Shape Adolescent Brains
(Undark)
While studies have long focused on bullying’s impact on the body and nervous system, research suggests it may affect victims’ brain structure, too.
Music Education Isn’t a Priority in the U.S. How This Utah School Is Doing Its Part to Fix That
(Deseret News)
A 2019 study published in the Journal of Educational Psychology showed that high school students who take music courses score significantly better on math, science and English exams than their nonmusical peers.
How to Help Your Child Succeed at School
(New York Times)
In the high-pressure, high-stakes game of school, it can be difficult to know which parenting strategies really promote learning. A successful experience in school is not only about report cards. Ideally your child will learn how to learn, retain information, think independently, ask questions and develop an increasing sense of competence. Here are some guidelines for making sure you start on the right foot and keep enthusiasm and momentum high throughout the school year.
Building A Web Of Knowledge
(Effortful Educator)
The cognition unit is, by far, my favorite unit of study in AP Psychology. I love introducing my students to the different facets of memory: short-term memory, long-term memory, explicit/implicit processing, encoding, storage, retrieval, forgetting, et cetera.
Staying at Elementary School for Longer Associated With Higher Student Attainment
(Science Daily)
A new study has discovered that US students achieve better results in reading and mathematics tests when they stay in elementary school for grades 6 (age 11-12) and 7 (age 12-13), rather than transfer to middle school. In contrast, students in grade 8 (age 13-14) achieve better results in middle school than high school.
Teaching Kindness Isn’t Enough
(Teaching Tolerance)
Teaching kindness is a staple of elementary practice, but that isn’t the same as teaching justice.
Teachers’ Views On Learning Strategies And Research
(Fordham Institute)
A new report by Ulrich Boser and The Learning Agency investigates what K–12 educators know—or mistakenly believe—about effective learning strategies and where they obtain information about learning research.
GUEST POST: The Memory Palace: How to Remember Just About ANYTHING
(Learning Scientists)
What was it that allowed me to recollect some events in my life and completely forget others? How does the brain remember memories? Why do we forget some things that we learn?
Emphasizing Social Play in Kindergarten Improves Academics, Reduces Teacher Burnout
(Science Daily)
Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning, and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research.
Reblog: The Growth Mindset Problem
(3-Star Learning Experiences)
He shows how growth mindset seems to be a viable construct in the lab, but when administered in the classroom via targeted interventions, doesn’t seem to work at scale. In his words, “Perhaps growth mindset works best as a philosophy and not an intervention [and that] the best way to achieve a growth mindset might just be not to mention the growth mindset at all”.
Parental Involvement Plays Key Role in Children’s Academic Attainment, Research Shows
(Science Daily)
New research has shown how parental engagement has a positive effect on a child’s academic attainment — regardless of age or socio-economic status. The study, conducted by the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter, also highlighted areas of promise for how schools and early years settings can support parents in a way that improves their children’s learning.
Developmental Psychology: One Good Turn Deserves Another
(Science Daily)
Five-year-olds enforce reciprocal behavior in social interactions. A study shows that children come to recognize reciprocity as a norm between the ages of 3 and 5.
How Caring for Students in Distress Can Take a Steep Toll
(Education Week – Subscription Required – Free Trial)
Teachers can make or break efforts to create trauma-sensitive schools. Yet in the rising number of schools adopting these initiatives, both administrators and educators often underestimate the support teachers themselves need to cope with the emotional weight of helping students in distress.
Overburdened Mental-Health Counselors Look After Students. But Who Looks After the Counselors?
(Chronicle of Higher Education – Subscription Required)
More students are coming to college counseling centers asking urgently for help. They often have multiple diagnoses or previous suicide attempts. For the counselors who try to help them, the student mental-health crisis is taking a toll.
How to Help First-Year Students Tackle Project-Based Learning
(Chronicle of Higher Education)
Are we thinking incorrectly about how to teach critical thinking? A recent paper argues that we might be. “How to Teach Critical Thinking,” by Daniel T. Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, reviews studies on the subject, including the effect of learning logic puzzles or Latin on students’ broader critical thinking skills, and also more discipline-specific research
The Evolution of a Trauma-Informed School
(Edutopia)
Two years after Edutopia filmed trauma-informed practices at a Nashville school, we check in with the principal to see what has changed.
