Purposeful Play Helps Kids Learn: Here’s How to Integrate It

Anthony Salcito, Institutional Business Director at Nerdy, discusses the impact of the pandemic on education, the role of teachers, the evolution and challenges of mentoring in the educational landscape, and of course, the potential of ai in education .

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Tom Lamont is a painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical (BVT) High School in Upton, Massachusetts. Mr. Lamont offers his vocational high school students a unique hands-on opportunity to learn about the design industry and prepare for jobs in the workforce.

While some of the recent efforts focused on recruiting more teachers of color have borne fruit, keeping those teachers in our schools and classrooms is an urgent challenge.

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You’ve heard all the news about kids using ChatGPT to cheat, but there’s another side to this story. Just as the Internet revolutionized education, ai will be the next game-changer.

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Education is changing because the world is changing. During the pandemic, teachers and students quickly adopted new tools to shift to remote and hybrid learning.

Now in their tenth year of teaching, John Arthur students have gained national recognition as advocates for children and immigrants like them through music videos and other digital content they create and share across platforms.

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I believe the low supply of STEM professionals can be attributed to significant barriers to entry that originate in educational settings; This is not the fault of teachers and administrators, but rather how the education system is structured.

The benefits of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education are numerous, and you would be hard-pressed to find a school district that doesn’t have a project, initiative, class, or lesson with the acronym in its title.

Before the pandemic, reading achievement had shown little to no growth. Scores have continued to decline, in part due to pandemic-related learning disruptions.