A recent study by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and reported by the BBC, suggests that those primary-school children who are eligible for free school meals have fallen behind their classmates in mathematics since the first lockdown in 2020. This is yet another pointer to the digital divide and the learning gap between the well…
When we read about young people they are frequently defined with terms such as “digital natives”. As discussed in this article by UNESCO the implication is that growing up in a world far more technically advanced each day gives them a built-in sensitivity and awareness to technology, as well as a preference for the visual.…
A pesar de que los últimos catorce meses hemos estado sufriendo la pandemia con colegios cerrados durante mucho tiempo, pero que en un artículo en Educación 3.0 un estudio de Macmillan Education sigue habiendo demasiados casos de acoso escolar. En 2020, un 9,4% de niños en Primaria sufrieron bullying de una forma u otra en…
New research carried out in England and reported on the BBC shows that the last year of lockdown has affected young children’s language skills. The evidence shows that “poor speech development can have long-term effects on learning”. Lack of contact with the wider family as well as teachers and other children is normally an important…
Many schools in the US are calling it a “lost year”. As students spent the year learning from home those who had started a new school have never met any classmates or made friends. All of this, according to the NY Times has led to much loneliness. The middle schoolers (young teenage children) often have…
The Brexit immigration policy is starting to affect the ability to attract – and pay for – language assistants. According to the Financial Times “language assistants must either apply for visas which require longer working hours at higher pay, or use a special route which requires supervision by a sponsoring organisation and is limited to…
Los informes PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) son el barómetro de países OCDE de niños de 15 años, a nivel mundial, que miden el rendimiento académico de los alumnos en matemáticas, ciencia y lectura. Según este artículo de El País, los jóvenes en España tienen “más dificultades para identificar textos sesgados que las que…
Childhood is changing for the young. Covid has played its part in this, but there are also other factors. This article from the Guardian claims that “free play both at school and at home is being eroded in favour of academic, sporting and cultural activities”. Children’s opportunity to be children at school is now changing…
In recent posts we have highlighted some of the discussion in government and the media around the concept of “catch-up”. This article from The Economist focuses on some of the challenges faced in sub-saharan Africa where “many school systems cling to over-stuffed curriculums” and a system that is inflexible and inevitably leaving behind many children…
While we have all learned to depend on Zoom and other video conferencing platforms in order to continue both working and, in the case of children, leaning Stanford University Researchers have confirmed what we knew all along: that “video calls are likely tiring you out”. There are four factors that contribute to this state of…