Winter break and snow days are often a welcome pause in our busy school-year routines. They give families time to slow down, reconnect, and rest. But for many parents, that pause also brings a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. When it comes to learning, it’s not age but our brain’s plasticity that ...

Watching a child take their first steps is one of the most celebrated milestones in early childhood. But beyond these wobbly first movements lies a deeper story — every tiny physical achievement fuels ...

Over the years, a lot of effort has gone into understanding and reducing autistic children’s restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs), also colloquially called “self-stimulatory behavior” or “stim.” ...

Active learning is not a new concept. Though coined by Bonwell and Eisen (1991), aspects of active learning can be found in studies by Piaget, Vygotsky, and Dewey*. Active Learning is a broad set of ...

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

Screens are integral part of daily life and can be useful learning and productivity tools; however, overuse especially among children raises concerns about impact that such technology has on their ...

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