Monstret Mollys Europaresa har väckt barnens nyfikenhet. Och förskollärarna triggas av mötet med andra länder.

Spelar det någon roll hur elever ser på kunskap när de ska lära sig naturvetenskap? Många forskare försöker svara på den frågan. Studier visar bland annat att elevers syn på kunskap kan påverka deras motivation inom naturvetenskap.

Education blogger and high-school teacher Paul Barnwell in this blog post poses five questions he says teachers and administrators should ask about the professional-learning communities model. "When the collaboration is efficient, PLC cycles provide a focused method to dissect student work and hopefully improve results," he writes.

A report released recently by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education offers five keys to using technology to help at-risk students. Among them, the report suggests setting a goal of establishing a one-to-one technology program and making sure Internet connections are sufficient.

Some schools have shied away from utilizing social media over fears of what could happen, but George Couros, an administrator in Alberta, Canada, writes about the need for courageous leadership in this department. He highlights the example of a school in the U.S. that has turned over its school Twitter account to the school community,…

Some educators are exploring ways to transfer print skills, such as annotating text for deep reading, to digital devices. Teachers are working on tablet applications, teaching students to use annotation software and keeping in mind that students may be distracted by the multimedia nature of e-books.

Teachers don't need a suite of smartphones or a tablet for every student to make an impact with iPads and iPhones, asserts Christy Crawford, an elementary teacher in New York. In this blog post, she shares 10 ways teachers can transform lessons with a single device, such as students taking turns on a tablet to…

Où sont les flashcards? Our collection of lesson ideas and resources will help you teach French from key stage 2 upwards.

While asking pupils to show respect in the classroom is well meaning, it creates a culture of shame, argues teacher David Birch. What terms are more effective?

Researchers hope that being able to accurately measure how well students resist digital temptations will help them learn about how “academic diligence” features in later life success.

Helena Ackesjö, Linnéuniversitetet, doktorerar i dagarna på en avhandling som handlar om hur barn upplever tiden före, efter och under förskoleklassen.

Karolinska Institutet blir först i Sverige med att starta Mooc:s (massive open online courses). Det betyder att universitetet under hösten berikas med över 70 000 nya kursdeltagare som världen över dagligen ska ta del av lärarnas spetskompetens.