What better topic to compile resources on when one is doing so very late at night? Ah, sleep, of course! We’ve written in the past about the importance of sleep for memory and cognition, the combined power of sleep and learning strategies,
All in Digests
Weekly Digest #133: Technology for Math Learning
Math is an extremely important topic, and one that comes up a lot when we discuss the science of learning. This week’s digest includes resources that may help Math teachers in their classrooms.
Weekly Digest #132: Dual Coding, Visual Note Taking, and Sketchnoting
We’ve talked a lot about dual-coding and the benefits of combining visual and verbal information. This week we’ve gathered some resources on how to apply that to note taking.
Weekly Digest #131: Increasing Grading/Marking Efficiency
Grading (marking in the UK context) can be a time-consuming and, at times, annoying task that teachers face on a regular basis. How can we make grading more efficient and less burdensome, but at the same time provide students with the important feedback that helps them improve their performance in the future?
Weekly Digest #130: SoTL Researcher Spotlight
In today’s digest, we would like to introduce you to some researcher-educators doing great work in promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology. For each researcher-educator, we have provided a small biography and links to some of their work so that you can go learn more.
Weekly Digest #129: Students Under Stress
When one of our very first guest bloggers reached out to us recently asking about resources for students under severe stress, we realized that we hadn’t broached this issue on our blog yet. This hugely important issues will take more than a quick digest to explore,