Alan Bain has undertaken research on technology and learning over the last twenty years during which time he has received funding from a range of government, non-government, and philanthropic sources.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Between the ages of 13 and 20, teenagers must develop an authentic “person” out of many possible selves derived from peers, cliques, mass media, and role models. The German-born American psychoanalyst ...

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) might be a small office at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), but it’s affecting big change on the Manchester, New Hampshire, campus. Led by Executive ...

Spontaneous gesture can help children learn, whether they use a spoken language or sign language, according to a new report. Previous research by Susan Goldin-Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished ...

Eileen Belastock, CEO of Belastock Consulting, is an ed tech strategist who understands and promotes the relationship between technology and education. Any K–12 district CTO will tell you that ...

In education, as in psychology, clarity matters. Yet in everyday conversations about teaching and learning, terms like learning theory and pedagogy are often used interchangeably. Phrases such as “We ...

The New York Times recently published an article about the "brain fitness" business, "Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn’t Sure." I believe the answer is no. Without a variety of other daily habits, ...

As school districts across the nation prepare to bring more students back to classrooms, we must grapple with the fact that the pandemic is causing educational disruption and disadvantaging children, ...

As generative AI permeates the classroom, educators are faced with a very important question: is it a friend or a foe? Artificial intelligence has infiltrated several aspects of our lives, and we are ...