By Ryan L. Schaaf   Today’s Kids Learn Differently In the previous article, Learning for the Always-On Generation (Part 1), readers were introduced to the observation that today’s kids are different. They talk differently, play differently, communicate differently, and most importantly, they learn differently than previous generations. Thanks in large part to digital bombardment, the ...

By Betsy Hill For good and bad, technology changes our brains. But then again, so does every experience we have. Our brains develop (throughout life) in interaction with our environment. As one neuroscientist puts it, our brains become what our brains do. So what are our brains doing and becoming in the digital age? This ...

  By Ryan L. Schaaf   It is truly astounding how people can embrace doing things the way they have always been done without contemplating where and when the original decisions were made. We just accept a pre-existing mindset because it is the path of least resistance. President Woodrow Wilson said it best, “If you ...

  By Ryan L. Schaaf Many educators share great concern about their students’ lack of ability to learn the way others did in the past. Oftentimes, these concerns are expressed by teachers who have been in the classroom for a long period of time. Some complain their traditional teaching methods are just not as effective ...