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“Parents and caregivers do not need to have all the answers, but they can make children feel heard, supported, and better equipped to address difficult topics.” Difficult conversations about sensitive topics help children understand the world, says Aisha Schnellmann. boldscience.org/how-to-talk-...
How to talk to your child about sensitive topics
Difficult conversations help children understand the world
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“To ensure healthy cognitive development, the external support these tools offer should be balanced with opportunities to activate children’s thinking.” Alice Aizza shares the opportunities and risks of AI, plus tips for helping children use AI thoughtfully. #EdChat boldscience.org/technology-c...
Technology can change the way children think
Offloading tasks to technology must be balanced with opportunities for active thinking
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Measuring how teachers adopt AI is not straightforward. The figures shift depending on what is asked and how AI is defined. In this episode of EdTechnical, hear from Joanna Cannon, who supports a growing body of research on how teachers are using AI. #EdTech boldscience.org/how-are-teac...
How are teachers using AI? – BOLD
Libby and Owen speak with Joanna Cannon, who supports a growing body of research on how teachers and students are using AI.
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How can parents and educators support young children’s executive function? “Tasks that involve sorting and grouping are important in the early years – and so is the language that we use around them”, says Amanda Ruggeri. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-to-help-...
How to help a young child build executive function
Using language during sorting tasks could support this developing skill
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Does tough love work? Scientist Katherine Ehrlich explains. #ChildDevelopment
“Children today face an unprecedented combination of challenges, including violence, poverty, forced displacement, growing inequalities, and the accelerating impacts of climate change.” @jorgecuartas.bsky.social is building children’s resilience to these challenges. boldscience.org/the-developm...
The developmental psychologist and economist seeking to build children’s resilience in the face of global challenges
What promotes human development and equity?
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“When children grow up with too little talking, playing, or listening, their development slows.” How to support children after neglect: Stable relationships and responsive caregiving are essential, say David Bürgin and Rebecca Walch. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-to-suppo...
How to support children after neglect
Stable relationships and responsive caregiving are essential
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How do children learn through play? Read our new explainer to find out. boldscience.org/how-do-child...
How do children learn through play?
More than just fun, play is crucial for children’s learning and wellbeing
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“Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most talked-about conditions right now. It’s also one of the most misunderstood.” Are too many children being diagnosed with ADHD? Kathryn Bates explains. #ADHD #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/are-too-many...
Are too many children being diagnosed with ADHD?
Young people need support based on their individual needs, regardless of diagnosis
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“We have found links between pretend play in the toddler years and better mental health several years later.” Toddlers' imaginative play is linked to fewer emotional and behavioural difficulties later on, say Fotini Vasilopoulos and Lucy Grummitt. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/does-pretend...
Does pretend play support young children's mental health?
Toddlers' imaginative play is linked to fewer emotional and behavioural difficulties later on
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The BOLD Science Communication Fellowship is now open for applications from early-career researchers! Find out more and apply: boldscience.org/fellowship/
The BOLD Science Communication Fellowship – BOLD
BOLD is offering a fellowship for scientists to develop science communication skills and reach caregivers and educators.
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“This growing achievement gap seems to be due in part to the widening gap in working memory capacity with age.” Working memory is just one of many factors impacting educational equality, say Roisin Perry and Iroise Dumontheil. boldscience.org/could-suppor...
Could supporting working memory reduce the attainment gap?
Working memory is just one of many factors impacting educational equality
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"Children learn early to reject an unfair deal, even when it comes at a personal cost." Understanding equality is a crucial part of a child's social world, says Melissa Hogenboom #ChildDevelopment. boldscience.org/how-children...
How children develop a sense of fairness
Understanding equality is a crucial part of a child's social world
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Children are reading less. Why? And what would motivate children to read? Melissa Hogenboom finds out. #Reading boldscience.org/how-to-get-c...
How to get children reading again
Children are more likely to read if they feel connected to books and have choices
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What helps children flourish, and what holds them back? Across psychology, neuroscience, education, economics, and genetics, certain principles emerge again and again. Here are the 10 that stand out most. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/the-science-...
The science of childhood, distilled into 10 principles – BOLD
The science of psychology, neuroscience, education, economics, and genetics give us a clear picture of what helps children flourish.
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🎉 Happy 10th birthday to BOLD! Over the last 10 weeks we’ve been sharing 10 of our favourite pieces from over 1,000 that we’ve published since our launch in July 2016. Here they are in one place, with updates and reflections from some contributors. boldscience.org/what-weve-le...
What we’ve learned about children’s growing minds
10 of our favourite pieces from BOLD’s first decade
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🎧“It’s important to pick the right tool for the right aspect of the learning experience.” In the latest episode of our guest podcast EdTechnical, Owen Henkel has four conversations at the Festival of Learning. boldscience.org/why-chatbots...
Why chatbots aren’t the future of educational AI – BOLD
Owen Henkel speaks to four experts about educational AI, finding that the community has moved on from asking whether generative AI is good or bad for learning.
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Why is play important for kids? Scientist Zachary Hawes explains. #ChildDevelopment
“Speech, reflection, and explanation are the most recognizable signs that students are contributing, but contributions that take place through action should not be overlooked.” How can teachers recognize active participation? Chunyan Yang & Anita Wei explore. #EdChat boldscience.org/recognizing-...
Recognizing students who are less vocal
What robotics education can teach us about appreciating different forms of youth knowledge
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How can parents and educators support young children’s executive function? “Tasks that involve sorting and grouping are important in the early years – and so is the language that we use around them”, says Amanda Ruggeri. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-to-help-...
How to help a young child build executive function
Using language during sorting tasks could support this developing skill
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“Many young people pass through a period of heightened distrust in adolescence, a crucial time when they are recalibrating how much, and whom, to trust.” Consistent, warm, and responsive relationships with adults help develop trust, say David Bürgin and Emilia Kiefer. boldscience.org/how-to-help-...
How to help young people trust others
Consistent, warm, and responsive relationships with adults help develop trust
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What makes children unique? Scientist Adriene Beltz explains.
“Math is not a quiet, desk-bound activity—it is a physical, social, and joyful experience that is already happening all around you.” Jenny Yun-Chen Chan shares how physical learning experiences support children’s mathematics development. #Math #EdChat boldscience.org/the-developm...
The developmental psychologist aligning brain and body in math learning
How physical learning experiences support children’s mathematics development
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“When children grow up with too little talking, playing, or listening, their development slows.” How to support children after neglect: Stable relationships and responsive caregiving are essential, say David Bürgin and Rebecca Walch. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/how-to-suppo...
How to support children after neglect
Stable relationships and responsive caregiving are essential
boldscience.org
“Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most talked-about conditions right now. It’s also one of the most misunderstood.” Are too many children being diagnosed with ADHD? Kathryn Bates explains. #ADHD #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/are-too-many...
Are too many children being diagnosed with ADHD?
Young people need support based on their individual needs, regardless of diagnosis
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"Children learn early to reject an unfair deal, even when it comes at a personal cost." Understanding equality is a crucial part of a child's social world, says Melissa Hogenboom #ChildDevelopment. boldscience.org/how-children...
How children develop a sense of fairness
Understanding equality is a crucial part of a child's social world
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What do teens say they want to know about social media? "They value guidance that acknowledges both the challenges of social media and the meaningful role it plays in their lives." Jennifer Rubin finds that teenagers want education, not just warnings. boldscience.org/what-teens-s...
What teens say they want to know about social media
Teenagers want education, not just warnings
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“Understanding how experiences, culture, and emotions shape learning can help us create better educational environments and supports for children with diverse learning profiles.” Moriah Sokolowski tells Annie Brookman-Byrne about her research on how the developing mind learns. #ChildDevelopment
The developmental psychologist building learner confidence through challenge
How do children navigate emotional responses to learning?
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🎧How can we get ahead of AI's risks in education? In this episode of EdTechnical, Libby and Owen speak with Rebecca Winthrop about Rebecca's ‘pre-mortem’ on generative AI in education. What can we do to prevent the risks while making the most of the benefits? #EdChat boldscience.org/getting-ahea...
Getting ahead of AI's risks in education
Libby and Owen speak with Rebecca Winthrop about a pre-mortem on generative AI in education, that found that the risks outweigh the benefits.
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