Educators and school leaders who are transitioning into new roles this year should prioritize listening before acting, writes Fred Ende, an administrator in a New York state district. The move to a new role is a change for the individual moving, but it also affects people in the organization who have to adjust.

Google for Education has introduced a feature called originality reports that allows teachers and students to scan their work for plagiarism. As the feature scans work for commonalities among billions of webpages and millions of books, it highlights text that may need additional sourcing.

Online gaming and other digital activities cause problems in people's health, relationships and studies. Government centers treat teen boys and girls who struggle to cut down on use of tech devices.

Four recent studies highlight the effects of increasing money for schools. Some research shows that additional money led to higher test scores and college admissions rates, while another found the greatest benefit was to students from lower-income households.

Adolescents who checked social media more than three times daily had increased psychological distress, compared with those with lower social media use, according to a UK study in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. Researchers also found that reduced sleep quality and elevated cyberbullying exposure accounted for about 60% of the correlation between very frequent…

Läraren Felix Gyllenstig Serrao använder datorspel som ett pedagogiskt verktyg. Genom att integrera spelelement i pedagogiken kan eleverna nå delmål och göra framsteg i en miljö som de känner igen från spelvärlden. (webb-tv)

I ett lärarlag på en språkinstitution vid Stockholms universitet har man arbetat fram en modell med särskilda mallar för auskultation, återkoppling och kollegiala samtal.

Schools are investing in high-tech solutions to flag potential student perpetrators of violence such as mass shootings. Privacy experts and student advocates are concerned.

Allmänheten har fortfarande stort förtroende för skolan som institution liksom för lärarna som yrkesgrupp. Detsamma kan man inte säga om skolans organisation där missnöjet är stort med skolans omstrukturering. Det skriver Sverker Lindblad, professor emeritus i pedagogik, i en debattartikel i Göteborgs-Posten.

Unga tjejer med självskadebeteende upplever i en simulering av sociala medier att de får mer negativ feedback än de faktiskt får. De tar också ogilla-markeringar hårdare. Det visar Irene Perini, forskare vid CSAN, i en nyligen publicerad artikel.

Björn Tingberg, lektor på det på nationella kunskapscentrumet Barnafrid, är en av författarna till den nyligen utgivna boken ”Barn, unga och trauma”. Synen på barn och trauma har förändrats: idag vet vi att även barn drabbas av posttraumatiskt stressyndrom. Problemet är bristande kunskap om hur vi upptäcker det.

Students at a high school in east China's Anhui Province are having all their math tests marked by a computer, which will also analyze the results for teachers.