RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Students in Rhonda Hawley’s class at Linwood Holton Elementary School in Richmond tested out brand-new robots and tablets on Wednesday that were purchased using a $30,000 prize ...

PowerPoint slide lectures captivate students -- for about 10 minutes. “Then you lose them,” said Jane C. Prey, program manager for external research and programs at Microsoft Research, the software ...

Technology provides instant accessibility to information, which is why its presence in the classroom is so vital. Smart phones, computers, and tablets are already an omnipresent element of everyday ...

(TNS) — On Thursday morning, second-grader Tara Adams was drawing some shapes on her tablet, trying to replicate a Cherokee symbol that she had learned about earlier that same day. Her teacher, Ms.

Moore opts for a no-tech classroom, one that is taught using chalk and a shared appreciation for learning. She emphasizes the ...

The assignment for Kathryn Perrotta’s fourth-graders was to learn about density by building a “neutral buoyancy” contraption that wouldn’t sink or float. The St. Paul summer school students turned to ...

“We’re in this breathless moment,” said Casey Mock, senior policy director for the Anxious Generation, a team that is pushing for the ideas laid out in Jonathan Haidt’s book by the same name. The ...