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UNESCO is pushing for classrooms around the world to ban smartphone use, arguing that the devices distract from learning, are bad for students’ mental health and well-being and come with a host of privacy concerns for young people’s…

It's one of the greatest mysteries of the Covid pandemic.How have thousands of people managed to avoid ever getting infected, despite so obviously being exposed to the virus? Yet others who have battled Covid and accepted numerous vaccines…

On a recent morning, Cheryl Drakeford, a third-grade teacher at First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, projected a challenging math question on her classroom’s whiteboard: “What fraction of the letters in the word MATHEMATICIAN are…

Less than 10 per cent of schools and universities follow formal guidance on using wildly popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools, like the chatbot software ChatGPT, according to the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization…

Classrooms to become frontline in the battle against vaping as teachers are told to warn children as young as 11 about the dangers and addiction it can causeSchools will be given briefing packs on the dangers of vaping by the…

High school students and their tutors in Cyprus have developed a prototype robot powered with ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology to harness and improve teaching experiences in the classroom.Named AInstein, the squat robot created by…

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As a number of viruses circulate in Nova Scotia classrooms, attendance rates in schools have steadily fallen since September.At least in the Halifax area, that trend picked up even more over the month of November.In the Halifax Regional…

Dr Stephen Griffin, an infectious disease expert at the University of Leeds, said face masks would have a 'tremendous impact at decreasing transmission'Children should wear face masks in classrooms in order to contain Strep A,…

Heather Hanwell wants to see a mask mandate reinstated in Ontario schools and she knows that's not a popular opinion.But the mother from York Region says she doesn't believe air filtration and ventilation in classrooms have gone far enough…