While we spend a good deal of time talking about learning strategies and how to balance note-taking, content review, and active retrieval practice, all of those strategies are actually fairly useless if you haven’t taken the time to prepare for learning.
As a learning expert, I (Megan) still get asked about learning styles all the time. Recently I was chatting with a colleague and was excited to tell her that I’m getting through so many more books now that I’ve fully embraced audio books. She smiled at me and said …
Most teachers have experienced the same situation: a student can read a large number correctly but struggles to explain why each digit has a different value. Constructing numbers is a key skill in the development of logical-mathematical thinking…
In today’s post, I’m covering a set of experiments published by Andrew Butler and colleagues (1) titled Retrieving and Applying Knowledge to Different Examples Promotes Transfer of Learning. I really like this paper for a few reasons. First and foremost, …
At The Learning Scientists, our mission is to make evidence-based practice available to the people who want and need it—teachers, students, and educators of all kinds. Of course, we hope our readers have also learned that we care deeply about …
