Education

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Culture | Education

Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths

Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does.

From Issue 040 Chapter Two by Philip Ball

A recent newcomer at one of the home-education groups my family attends explained that one of the frustrations that led her to take her son out of the school system was that he wasn’t…

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Ideas | Education

Spark of Science: Childhood Discovery

Kirk Johnson’s mom gave him 5 minutes at a rest stop. It was enough to find an arrowhead.

From Issue 033 Chapter Four by John Steele

Kirk Johnson hadn’t yet earned his Ph.D., or become director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. After all, he was just 6. But what he did have then, as today,…

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Culture | Education

Why Virtual Classes Can Be Better Than Real Ones

An engineering professor takes online-course critics to school.

From Issue 029 Chapter Five by Barbara Oakley

I teach one of the world’s most popular MOOCs (massive online open courses), “Learning How to Learn,” with neuroscientist Terrence J. Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at…

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Numbers | Education

Teaching Me Softly

Machine learning is teaching us the secret to teaching.

From Issue 006 Chapter Two by Alan S. Brown

When Pyotr Stolyarsky died in 1944, he was considered Russia’ s greatest violin teacher. He counted among his pupils a coterie of stars, including David Oistrakh and Nathan Milstein,…

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