All in For Students
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 …
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, …
AI and learning has been in the news recently. The Economist recently featured data from a study of 7-12 grade Chinese students’ homework and exam scores and AI use (1). Students who relied heavily on generative AI to complete their homework scored highly on their homework, but did not fare as well on exams. However, students who either didn’t use generative AI, or who only used it strategically, did not perform as well on their homework, but performed better than their peers on their exam.
Even under ideal circumstances, time management can be challenging… Even motivated, dedicated students who did well in high school can struggle to manage their time once they get to university. Students who were able to get to school by 7:30am in high school, maintain good grades,and participate in sports and other extracurriculars suddenly find themselves failing out of their 9:30am biology class because they overslept.
