{"id":661,"date":"2019-03-19T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2019\/03\/19\/happy-international-day-of-happiness-new-research-suggests-happy-students-achieve-more\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:49:27","slug":"happy-international-day-of-happiness-new-research-suggests-happy-students-achieve-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2019\/03\/happy-international-day-of-happiness-new-research-suggests-happy-students-achieve-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Day of Happiness: New Research Suggests Happy Students Achieve More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Seven years ago, the United Nations declared March 20th<\/sup> the International Day of Happiness<\/a><\/strong> to encourage countries around the globe to take concrete steps to cultivate happiness and well-being in people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I am super excited to help celebrate by releasing new global research on the topic of \u201cEmotion and Cognition in the Age of AI.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> Conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and supported by Microsoft, the research explores what educators and school systems can do to help students thrive in our rapidly changing world, and how technology can help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our findings spotlight the vital importance of helping students cultivate a sense of happiness and well-being, so they can thrive in school and in life. We listened to more than 760 educators in 15 countries, interviewed leading experts and reviewed 90 pieces of original research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are currently 1.5 billion students around the world. Educating them is one of society\u2019s most urgent priorities. At the same time, the world is changing faster than ever, which has a massive impact on the skills that students will need when they graduate into the professional world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our work on the Class of 2030<\/a><\/strong>, we heard from educators and experts that the future of education will be profoundly personalized, socially embedded and amplified by technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher-order cognitive skills will remain vital, but advanced social-emotional skills are increasingly critical. Social-emotional skills are fundamental to well-being, which we know is a key predictor of academic and employment success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this latest research<\/a><\/strong>, 80%<\/strong> of educators confirmed that well-being is critical for academic success and developing essential communication and collaboration skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also heard that three areas of technology are particularly important: immersive experiences, which can help students develop empathy by experiencing the world from someone else\u2019s perspective; collaboration tools that enable students to work together and with their teachers in new ways; and data and analytics that can help schools better understand students\u2019 needs and how to support them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are areas we\u2019re emphasizing in our products\u2014from Minecraft Education edition to Flipgrid, Teams with OneNote Class Notebooks, DataSense and Azure\u2014and we have compelling evidence our solutions are having a positive impact on key academic outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also found promising trends in Latin America. Our research suggests that countries there are leading the way with approaches to well-being, with more teachers fully incorporating the development of emotional literacy in classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out how important motivation and emotions are to achieve independent learners https:\/\/aka.ms\/HappinessResearch #SEL #InternationalDayofHappiness #SEL<\/a>Click To Tweet<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also studied schools where well-being is especially strong in order to look for common threads. We heard that these \u201cleader schools\u201d tend to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n