There’s a huge debate about homework and whether it helps kids learn during the school year. But everyone agrees that homework can take lots of time. The most commonly accepted guidelines recommend one hour for middle school and two hours for high school. However, I think this amount of time on homework every day can be too much. More...
For instance, The Economist proclaimed in 2018: “Long summer holidays are bad for children, especially the poor.”
This headline is fairly typical of how summer loss is portrayed. Summer has come to be seen as a time when children lose as much as a month of school learning. More...
By Joshua Kim. Why I think that Pearson will (or should) abandon textbooks and go all-in with adaptive learning platforms, and why not assigning OER textbooks is educational malpractice. More...
By Joshua Kim. A no connection hypothesis.
I read lots of non fiction books. Many fellow readers, including my wife, would put “read” in quotes. More...
By Joshua Kim. How should you respond to your dean's/provost's concerns after last week's 2U/OPM news?
Say a dean or provost happen to read "A Reckoning for 2U, and OPMs?" and wants to know what this means for your college. More...
By Eric Stoller. If you're not a regular reader of Joshua Kim's blog on technology and learning, you're really missing out on some quality content. More...
A guide....
Raising your profile in the workplace can feel like uncomfortable self-promotion, but it is an important part of professional life that we often put aside. More...
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