Month: October 2021

Learning is more effective when active

Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic performance compared to traditional lectures, lessons or readings, faculty concluded after collecting research into active learning. The research also found that effective active learning methods use not only hands-on and minds-on approaches, but also hearts-on, providing increased emotional and social support. […]

Published on October 2, 2021

Morality demonstrated in stories can alter judgement for early adolescents

A new study looks at how exposure to media content featuring specific moral values (care, fairness, loyalty and authority) might influence the weight kids place on those values. The main study showed that exposure to books emphasizing four separate moral values increased salience of their respective intuitions in early adolescents. Read Full Article (External Site) […]

Published on October 1, 2021