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Starting a developer bootcamp is both exciting and a bit overwhelming. On my first day, I didn’t expect to understand everything—but I was ready to learn how real developers think and work. Even though I couldn’t fully follow all the sessions later in the week, my first day still gave me a strong introduction to the journey I’m stepping into. What stood out for me The biggest realization was that…

Word scrambling is a deceptively simple mechanic. Rearrange the letters of a word, ask someone to restore the original — that's the entire game loop. But underneath that simplicity is a cognitive process that language researchers find genuinely interesting, and that developers building educational tools keep returning to. The Cognitive Mechanics of Unscrambling When a learner attempts to unscramb…

Svetlana (Lana) Jitomirskaya is a mathematics professor at Berkeley (Wikipedia, which puts her at two other schools, is out of date), and is one of 29 authors (I’m in there, too) on a paper in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, “In Defense of Merit in Science“. Lana is also a winner of the American Academy … Continue reading Berkeley math professor argues that we need to bring back SATs and othe…

Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I'm Yashwardhan Sharma, a 17-year-old tech builder from Jamshedpur, India, and the founder of Idea To Action Technologies . I wanted my first post here to address a massive elephant in the room regarding how tech is being taught to the next generation of creators. Right now, tech education is broken. Students are being forced to memorize archaic syntax and definitions of s…

Published on June 14, 2026 2:15 PM GMT Assume this is talking about majoring in Computer Science. Do you think getting high GPA (in CS major) is highly, moderately or only slightly aligned with improving AI risks research(both conceptual and emprirical) abilities? Some said they think a lot of college courses are not so useful[1], and getting good grades on tests requires practcing irrelevant ski…

Do genes dictate academic success? A new study of European twins shows the answer depends on where you live. Different school systems and family backgrounds can actually change how much a student's natural ability matters in the classroom.

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 13 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07943-0 Rethinking architectural education post-disaster: an analytical framework for curricular transformation after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes

Funding for extracurricular activities comes as ministers prepare to introduce social media restrictions for under-16s The government has announced a £132.5m funding package for after-school clubs as ministers prepare to introduce expected restrictions on social media use for under-16s. The programme is designed to expand access to enrichment activities in schools, with funding for clubs ranging …

A third grader's afternoon restlessness might predict their educational future. Researchers tracking students with wearable devices found that the ability to sustain self-control throughout the school day strongly correlates with lifelong academic achievement.

Students notice that their teachers are kind. Surprisingly, it's not about field trips, treats, and special activities.

'Where are the kids in this decision? Where are the teachers, and the parents? Are the kids happy to work a little harder if given some extra time to work toward the testing goal?,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

Every year, millions of students open YouTube, find a Python tutorial, watch three hours of someone else coding, and then close the laptop feeling like they learned something. They didn't. They watched someone else learn. That's not the same thing. This is the quiet crisis in programming education right now — and it's happening across every platform students trust. Udemy. Coursera. freeCodeCamp. …

Every finals season I'd end up doing the same algebra on a notes app: "I have a 91% in homework (20%), 84% on the midterm (30%)... what do I need on the final (50%) to get an A-?" So I built GradeHQ to do it for me — and then kept adding to it until it became a real side project. Live: gradehq.vercel.app Code: github.com/yashmitb/gradecalc (MIT) What it does Add your courses with weighted categor…

A couple of years ago, I built a custom flashcard app. I had a huge list of words and sentences in Japanese that I collected in an Excel file. I wanted an app that could easily take them and display them on flashcards. The flashcard app was useful, but the main issue was that I could only use it on my laptop. This meant that when I wasn't home, I had no access to it. I made some updates so that I…

This qualitative study explores how interpersonal communication strategies, framed within the concept of “loving pedagogy,” shape the relational dynamics of English-speaking classrooms in an Indonesian Islamic boarding school (pesantren). Conducted at Pesantren Luhur Baitul Hikmah in Kepanjen, Malang, the research involved two English teachers and three students (santri). Data were collected thro…

The shadowing technique is becoming increasingly popular as a way to develop speaking abilities in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) contexts. However, a few studies have looked into participants' perspectives on how they feel and react to the technique during the learning process. This study seeks to evaluate a learner's experience using the shadowing technique to improve speaking fluency, as …

The study examines the employment outcomes and skill relevance of Adama Science and Technology University’s 2024 graduating cohort. Using a mixed-methods approach involving 251 graduates from 15 departments, the research evaluates the transition from higher education to the Ethiopian workforce.

The global shift toward competency-based education places unprecedented demands on frontline teachers to enact dynamic, process-oriented assessments. However, translating these top-down policy mandates into daily practice within resource-constrained classrooms remains a significant challenge. To unpack this implementation gap, this study employed an exploratory, embedded single-case study through…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 12 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07915-4 What makes students hide knowledge during peer assessments? The role of assessment experience