You may think your toddler is just playing in the sand box, but she may really be conducting a sophisticated scientific experiment and making inferences every time she pours out another scoop of sand.
Kim Chae-young crams five evenings a week, toiling deep into the night. But unlike most young South Koreans who spend hours at special schools to polish their English and math, she studies slide steps and bubbly lyrics.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
Sugata Mitra put a computer in a hole in the wall and let children, who didn’t know any English or what the internet was, investigate. After two months, the kids learned pretty much all by sharing knowledge with each other.
Sugata Mitra put a computer in a hole in the wall and let children, who didn’t know any English or what the internet was, investigate. After two months, the kids learned pretty much all by sharing knowledge with each other.
A new study shows that reminders of one’s homeland can hinder the ability to speak a new language. The findings could help explain why cultural immersion is the most effective way to learn a foreign tongue.
We learn when we're amused and pay attention. So it's completely natural that something as preposterous as studying a language from looking at pictures of cats is actually a brilliant way of learning.
We learn when we're amused and pay attention. So it's completely natural that something as preposterous as studying a language from looking at pictures of cats is actually a brilliant way of learning.
We learn when we're amused and pay attention. So it's completely natural that something as preposterous as studying a language from looking at pictures of cats is actually a brilliant way of learning.
With federal government focusing more on innovation, and given the deep pockets of similarly focused corporate foundations, it may be feasible to implement game-based learning, even modestly, into more schools.
With federal government focusing more on innovation, and given the deep pockets of similarly focused corporate foundations, it may be feasible to implement game-based learning, even modestly, into more schools.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
Scientists say that Neanderthals matured more rapidly than homo sapiens, living fast and dying young. By aging slower, humans had more time to organize socially and learn.
Ever get to grips with a problem? Pick up a new skill? Grasp a difficult concept? These phrases all hint at the fact that learning is easier, quicker and more long-lasting if lessons involve the body as well as the mind.
Ever get to grips with a problem? Pick up a new skill? Grasp a difficult concept? These phrases all hint at the fact that learning is easier, quicker and more long-lasting if lessons involve the body as well as the mind.
Ever get to grips with a problem? Pick up a new skill? Grasp a difficult concept? These phrases all hint at the fact that learning is easier, quicker and more long-lasting if lessons involve the body as well as the mind.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
In the first few months of life, as a baby elephant learns to handle its trunk, the wriggling appendage has a mind of its own—kind of like a human infant’s flailing limbs.
We learn with what amuses us... So, it's completely natural that something as preposterous as learning a language from looking at pictures of cats is actually a brilliant way of learning.
China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among the burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on the expensive fixtures.
China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among the burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on the expensive fixtures.
China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among the burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on the expensive fixtures.
China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among the burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on the expensive fixtures.
China is experiencing piano frenzy with an estimated 40m children now learning to play. The instrument is increasingly in vogue among the burgeoning middle classes, who have the money to splurge on the expensive fixtures.
The news from a survey just out is that people dealing with a rare disease are far more likely to have honed their searching, learning, and networking skills to Olympian levels.
The news from a survey just out is that people dealing with a rare disease are far more likely to have honed their searching, learning, and networking skills to Olympian levels.