Nyt projekt vil videodokumentere, hvad der sker i klasseværelset. De første skoler er allerede i gang, og her er tilbagemeldingerne positive.

Britt-Marie Halvorsen är doktorand i slöjdpedagogik vid Åbo Akademi. Utifrån Britt-Maries forskningsintresse ”om slöjdlärarens bakomliggande arbete vid sidan av undervisningen” presenterade hon ett intressant paper med rubriken Slöjdäpplet – en lärares spegling av elevers arbetsprocesser i textilslöjd vid Make&Learn-konferensen på HDK vid Göteborgs universitet.

How an alternative high school boosts outcomes.

The use of science to inform learning and development can have profound results for children, particularly those in their first few years of life. So say the experts—among them Randa Grob-Zakhary, a resident of Switzerland who holds doctoral degrees in neuroscience and medicine from Johns Hopkins University.

Embedded learning offers opportunities for authentic learning in realistic settings, writes Fred Ende, assistant director of curriculum and instructional services in New York. In this blog post, he shares three strategies to adopt embedded learning.

Emotions affect everything from how well we pay attention to our mental and physical health. And yet many of us never learn to talk about them with specificity. Marc Brackett's work at the Yale Center For Emotional Intelligence is to help people learn to recognize and thus manage their emotions for better life success.

Det är vanligt att jämföra resultat i finsk och svensk skola. Men varför stanna vid jämförelser? För att utveckla arbetsformer och pedagogik vill forskaren Torbjörn Sandén i Vasa se mer direkta utbyten mellan länderna.

Educators want assessment practices that promote deep learning and mastery, not superficial "teaching to the test" practices and student burnout. Denise Pope, a professor at Stanford University, shares her strategies for infusing assessments with student voice, choice, revision, and redemption.

Most of the important things we learn in life can't be measured on a standardized test, says EL Education's Anne Vilen. When students own the diagnostic tools of assessment, they are able to name and claim their learning goals in personalized ways.

No one person can guide school-improvement efforts, long-time educator Jim Dillon writes.

Teachers report that many students, despite being "digital natives," need guidance on how to use social media beyond entertainment purposes. In this Education Update article, three educators share their tactics for incorporating social media to expand students' sense of what learning can be.

Children are born ready to learn; it’s on us to give them the right opportunities.