Education
In a busy kindergarten classroom, two four-year-olds play quietly side by side. The first recounts her morning in full sentences, links one clause to the next, names precisely what she sees. The second struggles to point to an object right in front of him, hesitates, repeats the adult’s words without ever making them his own. […]
We spontaneously picture the digital divide as an equipment problem: a missing computer, an absent or too-slow internet connection. That picture is not wrong. It only tells a small part of the story, though. Two students can have exactly the same computer and the same internet access, in the same classroom, and still end up […]
There is that child, at the back of the class, in front of their sheet. Around them, the others move on, decode, turn the page. They stay stuck on one word, then another, as if the letters refused to hold still. The teacher grows a little impatient. Their classmates finished long ago. And they tell […]
A student gets an excellent grade on a test she was dreading. Instead of the expected relief, a thought imposes itself almost instantly: the topic happened to suit her, the marker was lenient, she got lucky. Success, instead of reassuring her, immediately reignites the doubt. This mechanism has a name, impostor syndrome, and it particularly […]
For twenty minutes, this student seems elsewhere. Eyes unfocused, pen still, no visible trace of concentration on the exercise at hand. Then, on a following exercise that suddenly grabs their interest, they become hyper-focused, productive, nearly impossible to distract. This contrast often confuses the adults around them, who read it as selective bad will. It […]
