education

[ad_1] Over the winter holidays, 16 US states—including Georgia and Texas—banned the popular short-form video app TikTok in work contexts, specifically on any device one has been provided by their…

[ad_1] I’ve been in academics for more than 20 years as a member of the physics faculty at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Here, the department is small enough…

[ad_1] Apple first released Swift Playgrounds as an iPad app in 2016, and a MacOS version followed in 2020. It’s free and lets you edit code in one window and…

[ad_1] Still, in many cases, letting a computer impact the direction of a project, rather than craft a few choice sentences, can feel like giving the computer the reins when…

[ad_1] Compared to a few decades ago, young people have surprisingly less access to high-quality, informative sex education. Typically, human sexuality programs have been the responsibility of middle or high…

[ad_1] Despite nationwide efforts to foreground measures to prevent bullying—including annual campaigns like National Bullying Prevention month—bullying remains a serious public health issue. Tech developers have responded to this crisis…

[ad_1] That was the key; those interactions that I craved in the hospital were the same that many missed during the pandemic. The robot could provide that for me in…

[ad_1] Pfefferkorn also encourages asking your school to perform an audit of its monitoring software, which could reveal what kind of content the algorithm is tracking and how. An audit…

[ad_1] With a new academic year rolling around, students of all ages will be looking for help and guidance with their work—and there are a wealth of options on mobile…

[ad_1] It finally happened. On a sunny weekend, I sent my 7-year-old a block ahead to the playground while I helped her little brother sort out his new pedal bike.…

[ad_1] Some children could adapt better without them than others. Throughout his career in education, Pederson has never heard a single parent complain about data protection. But after the Google…

[ad_1] I was first just reading about how MRIs have got really big magnets in them, and thinking: I know that the magnetic field extends out away from them. It…

[ad_1] A few weeks into my return to teaching part-time this spring, I paused my walk around the classroom to watch two young women in body-con dresses writhe in unison…

[ad_1] “I don’t want any students in my videos now, absolutely not,” she says, “Whether you have 10 followers or 100,000 followers, a weird person is a weird person who…

[ad_1] “I remember the first time I ever shaved my legs, I didn’t even tell my mom,” Bortner says. “I was like, ‘Mom, look what I did.’ She was like,…

[ad_1] As the pandemic unfolded in spring 2020, an Educause survey found that an increasing number of students—who had very little choice but to take tests remotely—were increasingly putting up…

[ad_1] The mix of content makes for a podcast that should satisfy even the pickiest of listeners. New episodes arrive every other week. There are also transcripts available so your…