Joanne Jacobs
Charters lose support, but fewer oppose choice
Public support for charter schools has fallen among Democrats and Republicans, but opposition to school vouchers and tax-credit-funded...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 9, 2017
- 2 min
Smartphone teens are lonely, unhappy
The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...
Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 3, 2017
- 1 min
Digital Natives and Multitasking
As a math teacher I’ve long believed that the idea that today’s students are “digital natives”, and thus that they learn differently than...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21, 2017
- 1 min
AltSchool seeks future of learning
AltSchools, which charge parents $30,000 a year, are experimenting with using technology to personalize learning. #AltSchool...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 20, 2017
- 2 min
Don’t take your laptop to class
Bringing a laptop to class is a mistake, writes Cindi May in Scientific American, citing Michigan State research. Although computer use...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 20, 2017
- 1 min
90% of parents: My kid is doing well
Parents worry about paying for college, a Learning Heroes survey shows. They worry if their kids are happy and safe at school. But they...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 13, 2017
- 2 min
RAND links personalized learning to gains
At a South Carolina school that’s experimenting with personalized learning, sixth graders plan a recipe during math class. Photo: James...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6, 2017
- 2 min
Billionaires, here’s how to fund education
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 28, 2017
- 2 min
It’s the teaching, not the technology
Teaching — not technology — drives success at blended-learning schools, writes Thomas Arnett, research fellow of education at the Clayton...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 20, 2017
- 1 min
Internet isn’t rotting kids’ brains
The Internet isn’t changing kids’ brains, writes cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham in an excerpt from The Reading Mind on...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 19, 2017
- 2 min
Are schools being Googlified? Don’t believe it
In How Google Took Over the Classroom, a front-page New York Times story, Natasha Singer “implies something deeply sinister is occurring...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 8, 2017
- 2 min
Personalized-learning model goes national
Milpitas Unified, a school district near San Jose, is using the Summit Learning Plan in several schools. At Pomeroy Elementary, 6th-grade...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 28, 2017
- 2 min
How your brain beats Google
Google is all very well, but you still need your brain, writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. The more you...
Joanne Jacobs
- May 16, 2017
- 2 min
How Google won the education market
Google, with its low-cost Chromebooks and free classroom apps, now dominates the education technology market, reports Natasha Singer in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 29, 2017
- 2 min
Chinese students know anyone could be watching
Thousands of schools in China “are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public,”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
Laptops in lecture class: Grades go down
Using a laptop to take notes in a college lecture classes is linked to lower grades — especially for weaker students — in two new...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 6, 2017
- 2 min
Alexa, how will voice bots affect kids?
Mattel’s Aristotle baby monitor is billed as “the Amazon Echo for kids.” “As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 14, 2017
- 1 min
Teachers like snow days too
In a paean to snow days, Mary Morris, who teaches at Rush Strong School in Strawberry Plains, Tenn., turns Adele’s “Hello” into “Snow.”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 7, 2017
- 1 min
Video trike for toddlers: More screen time!
Fisher-Price’s new Think & Learn Smart Cycle is designed for screen-addicted toddlers, reports the New York Post. The $150 kiddie...
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