This video presents some interesting research carried out by Derek Muller for his PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia. He looked at the use of short videos to explain and teach scientific principles and how these impacted learning. His findings are quite surprising. Because short online videos tend to Read more

Technology advances at an ever increasing rate and schools are rushing along to catch up, but is it worth their struggle? This article from The Washington Post compares the school day of two girls called Nina – one in a school that has totally embraced technology and one that has Read more

What does life look like for the Millennial teenager? Are they digital natives or as naïve as old fogeys? Well, let’s start by looking at how much they use technology – that’s a lot! Particularly mobile. They almost all have mobile phones. They send an astonishing number of texts to Read more

Paul Anderson structured his class like a video game as an experiment. He wanted to see if changing the structure of lessons would increase engagement and results, which it did. But he also came up against a few issues. He discovered that giving students a lot of independence allowed some Read more

Why do girls excel at maths when they’re younger but lose interest when they’re older? The info-graphic below shows how girls drop out of science subjects more and more as they get older. And it doesn’t stop when they leave college – in fact it keeps getting worse. Even if Read more

There was a time when the only thing commuters would attempt to do on the train is read a newspaper, but get on any train these days and at least half the people on the train will be staring at their mobile phone. Some may be reading emails or the Read more

Digital books or e-books are becoming more and more popular but evidence is mounting that we may not actually be remembering what we read in them. This article in Time Healthland suggests that we all struggle to remember what we read onscreen and makes some interesting sugestions as to why Read more