Overview: E-Ink tablets in 2026 are built for focus. They remove noise, reduce eye strain, and make reading and writing feel ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Note-taking can help in class or a meeting—and if you do them right, they'll help you afterward as well. In class and in meetings, jotting down what you’re hearing is key—so it’s worth it to figure ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The largest Kindle now has a better pen, some new AI writing features, and a clever new way to marry reading and ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

The XPPen Magic Note Pad aims to deliver the best of both worlds – a digital writing pad that’s easy on the eyes while also functioning as a true productivity tablet running Android 14. It claims to ...

I really wanted to try an e-reader with a bigger screen, and leapt at the chance to spend time with the latest Amazon Kindle Scribe with its 10.2-inch e-paper screen. However, it wasn’t what I ...

When I turned 10, I was finally allowed to own a pen. At school, that was when we moved from pencils to ink, and our parents were told to get us all-new stationery. That was also the year we learned ...

This grounding practice changed me from a passive reader into a thinker among other thinkers. By Robert Rubsam At some point in the past year, I bought a used copy of “Camera Lucida.” In this slim ...

This is a guest post by Rachel Jamison Webster. This fall, students returned to school with AI software embedded in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Students will use AI to do research and to generate ...

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My grandmother's copy of The Odyssey. Source: Nancy K. Napier With so much talk about loneliness, with causes ranging from the pandemic to social media, I've been reading and thinking about it more.