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The air quality in your school can have a huge impact on learning
He finds that math scores went up by 0.20 standard deviations and English scores by 0.18 standard deviations, and the results hold up even when you control for “detailed student demographics, including residential ZIP Code fixed effects that help control for a student’s exposure to pollution at home.” Source: Air filters create huge educational gains…
🙋 Music theory, evidence based, executive function, and more – Of bits and bytes for November 6, 2023
Internet Travels Of bits and bytes is my weekly round up of interesting links and ideas I discovered on the internet. It is published on Mondays for the previous week Learn21 is a proud sponsor of Eduk8me and the Of Bits and Bytes newsletter. Read more about their mission at Learn21. Apps If you don’t…
🙋♂️ Kids’ lack of a third place, remembering others, flow, and more – Of bits and bytes for April 8, 2024
By the time this is posted and sent, we will be approximately 3 to 4 hours before experiencing the total solar eclipse. I remember when we learned about them in elementary school and at the time thinking that I would probably never get a chance to see one. Today’s will be the second one for…
🙋♂️ Recalculating, getting the right answers, AI detectors are a bust, and more – Of bits and bytes for January 2, 2024
Internet Travels Welcome to 2024! I fully embraced the idea of Dead Week, working on several geeky projects strictly to satisfy my own curiosity and learn some things along the way. I set up a Ghost installation so I could compare it to WordPress, a chat server using Zulip, switched my About site to a…
Can students learn with technology?
My team at the Reboot Foundation recently asked a simple question: Is the use of technology in schools associated with increased student outcomes? Based on a study of national and international databases, we uncovered a surprising answer, and our work suggests that there’s actually a pretty weak link between technology and student achievement. Source: Does…
What could happen when teachers write articles?
Depending on how knowledgeable you are, you might have heard about all of the aforementioned. Even if you have, the question is how well do you know all of them? Would you be comfortable explaining to a complete novice what all of these are at a high level and be sure that you aren’t skewing…