In my first official teaching job I was a swimming teacher for kids aged 4-12 at a summer program in Japan. Terms like 'classroom management', 'student-centered learning' and 'collaborative learning' did not exist in my vocabulary, and 'flipping the class' meant doing somersaults underwater.

"Computers 'do not improve' pupil results", say headlines this week on a new OECD report. Is the evidence telling us that digital learning if flawed? Should schools be moving away from new technologies and back towards traditional skills?

"Computers 'do not improve' pupil results", say headlines this week on a new OECD report. Is the evidence telling us that digital learning is flawed? Should schools be moving away from new technologies and back towards traditional skills?

The programming language Python has overtaken French as the most popular language taught in primary schools, according to new research. The news comes exactly one year after the UK government introduced the Computing curriculum, which featured coding as a core component.

A new musical method claims to enhance children's intelligence, as well as making them happier. Is it too good to be true?

In a world as fast-changing and full of information as our own, every one of us — from schoolchildren to college students to working adults — needs to know how to learn well. Yet evidence suggests that most of us don’t use the learning techniques that science has proved most effective. Worse, research finds that learning strategies we do commonly employ, like rereading and highlighting, are among the least effective.