Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Research shows there are four elements that help students become naturally motivated to learn: challenge , goals , feedback , and curiosity. Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Boggiano, A.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?

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Civics Psychology Humanities Learning Science 90

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

So I explored the notion of caring pedagogy and discovered, to my surprise, that it goes all the way back to the 1930s and ‘40s, to the pioneering work of Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky, noted in learning-science circles among the founders of social constructivist theory.

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