It was a cold Wednesday morning as a group of 4th graders walked down the sidewalk from their public elementary school to a nearby church for their weekly Bible program. Their parents had given ...

New science explains why children outlearn AI in language—and what it means for tech, childhood, and the future of learning. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) Children are astonishing language learners. Long ...

Why do young children often miss the emotions behind adult expressions? A pioneering study led by researcher Xie Wanze from Peking University's School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, in ...

Unlike kids in the United States, hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid ...

Children master languages effortlessly due to their highly adaptable brains and fearless approach to mistakes. Natural immersion in daily life, superior sound recognition, and learning through play, ...

When I was in seventh grade, I had a language arts workbook that asked us to fill in the blanks with one of four words. Approaches varied, but the idea was to give students a sense of the range of our ...

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Children’s eyes may hold the secret to how they learn from videos, and new research suggests artificial intelligence could unlock it. By pairing eye-tracking technology with advanced neural networks, ...

Campaigners want classrooms to match how young children actually learn, not ones that force them to grow up too fast. MPs ...

“Dr. Laura: How will they know right from wrong when they are never taught something will happen when they do wrong?" In a recent post, we addressed the fact that punishment doesn't actually teach ...