What Do We Do with Screen Time? If you lead an elementary school, you have likely heard the concerns: Screens harm children’s eyes. Screens rewire young brains. Young children need books and blocks, not tablets. The media shares research and warnings; parents raise these worries at back-to-school night and parent meetings; teachers raise them in […]
Let’s think differently about how schools can serve students. . . . Learning and Schools Children love to learn! They learn all the time! Schools, however, are frustrated by declining test scores that indicate students are not learning from teachers’ lessons. Sadly, the result is a leaning into more whole-class instruction, more explicit (but not necessarily […]
Having experienced the pathways and trends in education since the 1950s, I can confidently proclaim . . . this is a time like no other. We are at a crossroads that is both daunting and exhilarating. COVID, AI, and globalization, to name a few, are changing the landscape of students, parents, and teachers. Schools must […]
The original post has been removed. It explored ways that both teachers and students can use AI. However, after learning of some (not all) AI apps that represent themselves as so real that young people are considering them to be friends, and that a student committed suicide allegedly in order to be united with what […]
IDE Corp. was featured in a January 16 Wall Street Journal article, “Are Videogames the Future of Remote Work?”. Writer Christopher Mims visited IDE’s virtual Gather.Town offices and met with Dr. Nancy Sulla, founder and president of IDE, in the virtual “lobby.” They toured the virtual space, speaking with several IDE employees who shared their […]