I recently asked a fellow academic, in conversation, how they try to integrate critical thinking into their classroom, and they replied that they don’t have "much time for that kind of thing." I ...
A researcher at Stanford University has written a fascinating essay, “How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think?,” in the Edge about her examination of how people who speak different native ...
This study investigated the relationship between middle school students’ computational thinking skills and their STEM career interest and attitudes toward inquiry. A total of 289 students (146 female, ...
Nearly two out of three U.S. kids spend more than two hours a day looking at screens, a new analysis of activity levels finds. And those children perform worse on memory, language and thinking tests ...
In some ways, learning to program a computer is similar to learning a new language. It requires learning new symbols and terms, which must be organized correctly to instruct the computer what to do.