As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...
All computers come with spellcheckers and iPhones autocorrect their users’ texts. But despite those everyday features, formal spelling instruction still pays off, the findings of a new study suggest.
If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...
Generative AI is the computer systems that produce “new” content such as text, images, and other media from training data. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM, a subset of generative AI) that ...
But growing up in Silicon Valley, I can’t ignore the disparity in value afforded to educators versus the overhyped ...
The Center for Teaching and Learning fosters a collaborative faculty community that builds on current best pedagogical practices across all disciplines and teaching modalities at Pratt: classroom, ...
Online teaching and learning is a form of distance education. While distance education has been offered since the early 1700s, the first online courses were offered in the late 1960s. Original ...
Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...
This word has appeared in 378 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 27 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can ...