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Will Social Media Pioneer the University Of The Future?
Social media can do a lot of cool things, like launch wee babies from post-college obscurity into weblebrity stardom, but we won’t likely be seeing the Twitterversity of YouFace issuing a Bachelors of...
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Old News of the Day: Comics Help Kids to Love Reading
Canadian researchers have found that, despite educator worries that comics are “unsuitable reading material… associated with poor quality, cheapness and disposability,” young boys who read comics are...
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Armenia Makes Chess a Mandatory School Subject
Armenia is a country mad for chess, having won a number of world chess competitions in recent years. Now, the country will impart a love of chess to the next generation, committing $1.43 million to an...
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Teachers Bring Twitter Into the Classroom, But Does it Work?
These kids today. Back when I was in school, simply having a cellphone in the school could be enough to land you in hot water. Now, the New York Times is reporting that a growing number of teachers...
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South Korean Schools to Ditch Paper, Go Digital
The South Korean Ministry of Education is investing a hefty $2.4 billion into making the country’s school system completely digital. The plan is to abolish textbooks and replaced them with digital...
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How To Use Social Media To Get Better Grades [Infographic]
When we think of students using social media, it’s hard not to imagine the college freshman holed up in the library spending hours on Facebook when they should be studying for exams, but maybe there is...
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Science Says Kids With Educational Toys Become Educated Adults, Loving...
A childhood filled with Reader Rabbit and other educational doodads appears to be the key to improved cognitive development later in life. Everything else, including whether your parents were loving...
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Flies Raised On Booze Need Alcohol To Learn, Just Like College Students
Fly larvae — fine, maggots — that are raised on food spiked with alcohol grow up into flies who can’t learn normally without the aid of a little booze juice, marking yet another way in which maggots...
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Arguing Could Lead to Better Science Education
Sometimes it seems that no matter how well an idea is accepted by the scientific community, there’s someone out there not willing to believe it. That’s why Jonathan Osborne, professor of education at...
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French Teacher Suspended for Showing Saw to Sixth-Grade Class
It’s that time of year again when kids are starting summer vacation and teachers just couldn’t give a damn. Yesterday, we brought you the story of a fourth-grade teacher from Wisconsin who got falling...
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No, Kids Who Use iPads Won’t Have Smaller Vocabularies
A study was done that used MRI scans of the brains of 27 adults to determine that humans learn new words better by hearing them than they do by learning them visually. One of the authors of the study...
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Natalie Portman Has Serious Science Cred Going into Partnership With Disney...
Natalie Portman and Marvel have teamed up to offer girls a chance to get involved in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with the Ultimate Mentor Adventure. Portman is more than just a...
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Play-i Toy Robots Teach Young Children Computer Programming Basics [Video]
Pretty much everyone needs to have at least a basic understanding of computer concepts to function in the modern world. Play-i wants to help your little geek-in-training learn the basics of computer...
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Build Your Own Portable Video Game Machine with the DIY Gamer Kit
The DIY Gamer Kit tasks you with building your own portable game machine and programming its games. Looking for a fun project that you can get creative with? Have a little geek-in-training who won’t...
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New Study Looks at the Impact of Snow Days on Student Performance
For a kid (or teacher) in school there is nothing better than a snow day, but educators have been concerned with how an unexpected day off might impact a student’s education. A new study examined the...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Stay In School In Australia, You Will End Up In A Horror Film...
Educational ads usually say, “stay in school or else you’ll be unemployed and sad all the time,” though that’s also applicable to most university grads I know. In Australia, though, they’re not...
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Will Spidey Be Addressing Education Reform in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1?...
Less than a month before its release, Marvel has released its variant cover for Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1, drawn by Sara Pichelli and featuring the new man behind the mask, Miles Morales! After...
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Interview: Mom’s Special Recipe for Gender Equitable Science Education -...
I’ve been worried about science. I don’t mean in the usual zombie plague or Skynet sort of way. I’ve been worried about science in the real world, which is honestly much scarier. The current US...
View ArticleWatch A Bunch Of Lady Scientists Discuss Evolution - Consider the Following
Well this is an interesting new thing. It’s a video called “Let’s Talk About Evolution,” that features a wide range of female scientists, doctors and researchers. Produced by Matt Shipman, David...
View ArticleMr. Wizard: Master of Science and Crotchetiness - And That's Terrible
Watch Mr. Wizard, a science education program that ran during the 50s and 60s, purported to teach children about the “science behind ordinary things.” But, if you’re like me and you’ve never saw the...
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