Dimitris Tzouris What is the point of higher education if it doesn’t make people happy?The Guardian - Jonathan WolffForcing universities to compete with each other is a bad idea. What we need is a Teaching Happiness Framework In The Methods of Ethics, a book read only by philosophers with an overdeveloped sense of the
Dimitris Tzouris Giving students more music, theater, and dance boosts writing scores (and compassion), big new study findschalkbeat.org - By Matt Barnum When you’re the big fish, it’s not OK to pick on the little fish just because you can. That’s an important lesson for everyone. But some Houston …
Dimitris Tzouris 10 global megatrends facing educationBBC News - Andreas SchleicherWhat are the big international trends coming over the horizon that are going to affect education systems around the world? Andreas Schleicher, head of education for the OECD economic think thank and in
Dimitris Tzouris 'It makes me feel angry': Kids speak out about their parents' phone useabc.net.au - By Fiona Pepper for Life Matters Many Australian parents worry about their children having too much screen time, but perhaps they should look a little closer to home. If the six- and …
Dimitris TzourisADHD Harvard study: Children who start school early more likely to get ADHD diagnosis — even if they don’t have itThe Washington PostIn a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers looked at the records of more than 407,000 children from every state and found that younger children in the same grouping of
Dimitris TzourisEducation Kids need more than academics at school to succeed. Doing it right is the trick.The Washington PostThe obvious answer is all of them and more, though there is no surefire formula that can work everywhere. The New York Times, for example, recently published an article about how New York City Mayor Bill
Dimitris TzourisLearning The Future Of Learning? Well, It's PersonalNPR - Anya Kamenetz , Robbie Feinberg, Kyla Calvert MasonUpdated at 10:30 a.m. ET If you do a Google image search for "classroom," you'll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks, with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher. One teacher,
Dimitris Tzouris Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New ResearchInc Magazine - Jessica StillmanYou are probably not using the most effective, research-backed study technique. When was the last time you sat down with a pencil and paper and drew something? For many of us the answer is high school
Dimitris Tzouris The Dangers of Distracted ParentingThe Atlantic - Erika ChristakisWhen it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own. Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, disturbances,
Dimitris Tzouris Universities: Is free speech under threat?BBC News - Rachel Schraer & Ben ButcherFree speech is being threatened at British universities by a culture of offence among certain students, according to critics. A Parliamentary inquiry has reported, regulator the Office for Students has
Dimitris Tzouris University 'grade inflation' to be tackled as first-class degrees riseBBC NewsA surge in the number of first-class degrees awarded at university has led the government to bring in measures to tackle so-called grade inflation. Figures suggest that degrees are being "marked up", students
Dimitris Tzouris Kids aren’t failing school–school is failing kidsFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiFor many kids, what they learn in high school isn’t preparing them for success in college or in their career. A new report delves into how our education system is letting them down. Work hard in school,
Dimitris TzourisInnovation These Are The Skills That Your Kids Will Need For The Future (Hint: It's Not Coding)Inc Magazine - Greg SatellThe jobs of the future will involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines, and value will shift from cognitive to social skills. An education is supposed to prepare you for
Dimitris Tzouris Paper Tweets Build SEL Skillsedutopia.org - Jill Fletcher To ensure that each student has an audience, they all have to enlist at least three followers—a friend, an acquaintance, and someone with whom they …
Dimitris Tzouris The future of college education: Students for life, computer advisers and campuses everywhereThe Washington Post“We are living in an incredible age for learning, when there’s so much knowledge available, that one would think that this is good news for higher education,” Bryan Alexander told me recently. Alexander
Dimitris TzourisIcon version of the Flipboard logo What is the true meaning of a college degree?medium.com - In Plain Sights Though it has now been nearly a month since my own graduation ceremony, these past few weeks have been filled with reflections on transitions and …
Dimitris Tzouris Student Evaluations Can’t Be Used to Assess Professorsslate.com - By Kristina Mitchell Our research shows they’re biased against women. That means using them is illegal. Imagine that you’re up for a promotion at your job, but before your …
Dimitris Tzouris The Overprotected KidThe Atlantic - Hanna RosinA preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution. A trio of boys tramps along
Dimitris Tzouris Robots Aren’t Replacing Teachers, But The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence Could Make Our Lives Easier And Improve Educationteachwire.net <strong>The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote a story set in the year 2157, in which a boy discovers a ‘real’ book. In it, he learns that …
Dimitris Tzouris Elementary School Homework Probably Isn’t Good for KidsFatherly - Patrick A. Coleman A powerful combination of superstition and questionable research ensures young kids hit the books instead of just, you know, reading them. Many …
Dimitris Tzouris My Desk-Free, Student-First Classroombrightthemag.com - Bridget Wortman I remember my pride the very first time I set up my classroom. Dozens of desks sat in well-designed configurations across my classroom, shiny and …
Dimitris Tzouris Don’t just teach kids to code – teach them to question Facebook and GoogleThe Guardian - John HarrisIt’s shameful that our children are still so computer illiterate. Let’s give them the skills to take on the tech giants, and create a more democratic internet Three years ago, before the Brexit dreams
Dimitris Tzouris Paper or Screen for Comprehension and Learning?wordpress.com We have blogged about writing with pen/pencil and paper versus writing on a laptop (see here) and concluded that handwriting is more powerful for …
Dimitris TzourisEducation The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - The American Scholartheamericanscholar.org It didn’t dawn on me that there might be a few holes in my education until I was about 35. I’d just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the …
Dimitris Tzouris What skills do kids need to thrive?Quartz - Jenny AndersonTo many, increasing automation and the unprecedented pace of technological changes mean kids need more than just academic skills to succeed. They need confidence and motivation to tackle problems, interpersonal
Dimitris Tzouris What every teacher should know about ... memoryThe Guardian - Bradley BuschIn a new series of articles on how psychology research can inform teaching, Bradley Busch picks an academic study and makes sense of it for the classroom. This time: a project on long-term memory There
Dimitris Tzouris The Future of Work Is Uncertain, Schools Should Worry Nowedweek.org - Benjamin Herold Automation and artificial intelligence are disrupting the labor market. What do K-12 educators and policymakers need to know? Today's 6th graders will …
Dimitris Tzouris Why Teachers Need Their FreedomThe Atlantic - Ashley Lamb-SinclairEducators must remain engaged and autonomous in order to do their jobs well and avoid burnout. My co-teacher and I met in the parking lot before school and stared into my car trunk at the costumes and
Dimitris TzourisScience The Best Way to Test Students? Make Them Explain It On VideoWIRED - Rhett Allain As a physics professor, I have two jobs. The first, obviously, is to help students understand physics. That makes me something of a coach. But I want …
