Tomas Lindberg hittar inspiration i death metal till lärarjobbet.

Skype has made the shift from novelty to standard tool that is making inroads in classrooms worldwide as teachers seek to give students expanded access to guest speakers, experts and other cultures, according to writer Kate Messner.

There are five skills that students can learn better through video games than textbooks, experts assert in this article. Among them are to connect physical experiences with learning, to compete, to work as a team and to engage in systems thinking, "which leads students to understand the relationships within and among components."

Educators and administrators profiled in this article say they are engaged in daily professional development thanks to social media platforms such as Twitter. More teachers and administrators are using Twitter to participate in and host chats.

Effective professional development for teachers can have a direct effect on students' achievement and retention of top teachers, asserts Donald Fraynd, CEO of TeacherMatch and a former educator.

How children in Australia are creating new languages.

From collages to story cubes, teacher Rachel Jones gives five easy ways to replace traditional lesson tools with digital alternatives.

Jessica Lahey writes about a Cornell professor who takes special pride in teaching non-math majors to appreciate numbers. He does it with an inquiry-based, hands-on approach that would likely work for kids learning math for the first time too.

Author and educator Pernille Ripp shares the steps she took to help her students regain a love of learning.

Vetenskapsrådet har tagit beslut om projektbidrag i årets stora utlysning inom utbildningsvetenskap. Totalt inkom 269 ansökningar varav 29 projekt beviljades bidrag. Det ger en beviljandegrad på 10,8 procent.

Lovisa Bergdahl, lektor i pedagogik på Södertörns högskola, har tillsammans med två kollegor beviljats 5,9 miljoner kronor av Vetenskapsrådet för det fyraåriga forskningsprojektet "Levda värden: en pedagogisk-filosofisk grundläggning av skolans värdegrundsarbete".

Playing an action video game “can virtually eliminate” the gender difference in a basic capacity researchers call spatial attention, while at the same time reducing the gender difference in the ability to mentally rotate objects, a higher-level spatial skill.