Teaching younger children through ‘guided’ play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well, and sometimes better, than traditional, direct instruction, according to a ...

The debate pitting supporters of discovery learning against supporters of fully guided instruction seems finally settled. “Decades of research clearly demonstrate that for novices (comprising ...

Guest post by John Thompson. The cover story in the American Educator “Putting Students on the Path to Learning,” by Richard Clark, Paul Kirschner, and John Swelter should prompt a dialogue between ...

Children learn more through ‘guided play’ than from teacher-led instruction, according to a new study by experts at Cambridge University. A play-focused approach to learning, where children are ...

What happens if you stop teaching young children through direct instruction and instead set up purposeful opportunities to play? They could learn just as much when it comes to literacy, numeracy and ...

[Kay Choe] can’t play the piano. Rather, he couldn’t, until he converted his keyboard to include LED-guided instruction. [Kay] is a microbial engineering graduate student, and the last thing a grad ...