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Oct 9

Oct 9 Weekly Digest #30: Learning and Attention

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Oct 2

Oct 2 Weekly Digest #29: Why do You Procrastinate, and What Can You do About it?

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One of us (Yana) was asked by an undergraduate student to participate in an expert interview on procrastination for their College Writing class. Not being an actual expert on this – unless you count personal experience! – I had to quickly read up on the science ...

Sep 25

Sep 25 Weekly Digest #28: The Effectiveness of Study Groups

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Last week was exam week in Cindy’s classes and after discussing their study strategies, many students reported having used study groups outside of class. Given that many students probably have exams coming up, we thought it might be beneficial to look into ...

Sep 18

Sep 18 Weekly Digest #27: Resources for Teaching Content Curation

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A few days ago, we reblogged a portion of Saga Briggs’ blog from InformED where she highlighted the importance of content curation skills. This week for our digest, Saga provides her top 5 resources to help students and teachers curate information ...

Sep 11

Sep 11 Weekly Digest #26: How To Manage Group Work

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There’s a meme that often goes around of a pie-chart showing the main things people learn from group work; by far the largest slice of the pie is “TRUST NO-ONE”. Many students dread group projects. But, you know what? So do many teachers. We dread having ...

Sep 4

Sep 4 Weekly Digest #25: Active Learning

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Almost a year ago now, Dr. Molly Worthen (@MollyWorthen) posted an opinion piece in the New York Times called “Lecture Me. Really.”. The piece received a lot of praise and criticism from many sources and for many reasons, but the debate focused on ...