Claire Woodcock

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Claire Woodcock

There aren’t as many librarians in schools as there used to be. At first it wasn’t as noticeable, as the reductions were local and the losses were absorbed by teachers. Nor did it happen all at once: Roles were left vacant after retirements, or they were replaced with lower paid aides or support staff.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Claire Woodcock

3 hours agoMADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn’t experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies or job hunts, avoiding politics and partisan groups. Until now. The university …

1 month ago | edsurge.com | Claire Woodcock

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. One such game is called Decimal Point. It’s a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions.

2 months ago | edsurge.com | Claire Woodcock

Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development Association oversees nine Head Start centers in the region.

Mar 27, 2024 | thedailybeast.com | Claire Woodcock

The Reddit community r/tragedeigh is probably not a place you want to see screenshots of your social media posts or text messages ending up-especially if you have children. Here's what makes a good post "tragique," as they like to call it: It must be about a given name that's either been deliberately misspelled to make it seem more unique than it is (e.g. Emmaleigh instead of Emily) or original in the sense that it's a name that seems completely made up (e.g. Dugsly, Brylie, Kaydynce).