Education-technology companies have many opportunities to collect data on students, a concept that Velislava Hillman, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science, wants school leaders, academics and policy makers to reconsider.
Distance learning provided an opportunity for teachers and students to try out different digital and analog tools to help them figure out how they learn best.
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.
Children who do more physical activity are likely to have stronger self-control which can help their education, research by Cambridge University shows.
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.