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Oct 22

Oct 22 Weekly Digest #82: How To Successfully Bust Myths

A couple of months ago we published a guest post on “How to Help Students Overcome Misconceptions”. Misconceptions and myths are daily fare in education. It is usually extremely difficult to convince someone to overcome...

Oct 15

Oct 15 Weekly Digest #81: Classroom Research

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Teachers, Digests

In a recent blog post, Cindy described many of the problems with classroom research. This type of research is messy and is often therefore too large of a risk for professors whose careers depend on successful research outcomes. However, there has been ...

Oct 9

Oct 9 Weekly Digest #80: Resources for Teaching about Racism and Bias, Part 2

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Parents, Digests

This week, we provide 5 resources related to teaching about race and bias. Some of these might be more realistic than others to actually implement in your classrooms - but all provide interesting food for though.

Oct 1

Oct 1 Weekly Digest #79: Resources for Teaching about Racism and Bias, Part 1

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Parents, Digests

There is a lot going on in today's world, and we know more than a couple of people who would prefer to ignore the news because of world events. But, as teachers do we have a responsibility to teach our students about race and bias? There has been some debate ...

Sep 24

Sep 24 Weekly Digest #78: How to Motivate Children to Learn

Learning Scientists

For Parents, For Teachers, Digests

We sometimes get asked about how to improve the motivation to learn in students. As cognitive psychologists, we know a lot about learning strategies and ways to increase learning performance. However, motivation falls into a different research discipline...

Sep 17

Sep 17 Weekly Digest 77: Cell Phones in the Classroom

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Digests

We have recently talked about attention in the classroom, as well as technology in the classroom. Each of these posts touched on cell phones and how they can be used for good or can detract from a learning environment. Today, we provide you with several additional ...