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Happy Holidays!

Dear loyal readers,

 

We are on vacation! The next blog post will be out on January 3rd 2017. In the meantime, here are a few updates and our most popular posts from 2016.

  • We recently collaborated with Memorize Academy to create a video teaching students how to study using all 6 strategies for effective learning. If you haven’t seen it already, please watch it, but also give it a “thumbs up” on YouTube and even a comment. This will push it further up the list in the rankings when people search “how to study”. Wouldn’t it be great if the top hit for that search term was a video full of evidence-based strategies?
  • We are still trying to hit our donation target of $1,000 to translate our learning strategy posters into another language. Click here for more information.

  • Did you know? We now have a set of 6 external education experts who are on hand to answer your questions!

And here’s some reading for your vacation – our top posts from 2016!

Be Your Own Teacher: How to Study a Textbook

Be Your Own Teacher: How to Study with Flashcards

Learn how to Study Using... Retrieval Practice

Listening to Music while Studying: A Good or a Bad Idea?

GUEST POST: Two Myths about Feedback (and Why the Myths are Wrong) -- By Stacey R. Finkelstein @drstaceyf

GUEST POST: Important New Study of Homework -- By Daniel Willingham @DTWillingham