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Sep 20

Sep 20 GUEST POST: When Theory Falls Short - Exploring Classroom-Based Learning Strategies at Scale

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

The learning science field has equipped both teachers and students alike with a robust toolset of effective learning strategies. But do the learning strategies we’ve come to know and love transfer between learning environments? For example, just ...

Sep 18

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

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

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 15

Sep 15 The Combined Power of Sleep and Learning Strategies

Cindy Nebel

For Researchers, For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

In earlier blog posts we have discussed the benefits of sleep, spacing, and retrieval practice on long-term retention of information. As a (very) brief refresher, all three of these strategies increase the storage strength of information that we have studied ...

Sep 13

Sep 13 GUEST POST: The Importance of Content Curation, and Tips for Teachers and Students

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

At St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, Dr. Corinne Weisgerber is teaching a class on social and interactive media. In addition to building a Personal Learning Network of online mentors and experts they can use to supplement their Google searches, her students ...

Sep 11

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

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

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 6

Sep 6 GUEST POST: An Interview With a Language Teacher

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

Jake Hunton, @jakehuntonMFL, is Head of Languages, author of Fun Learning Activities for FL, passionate about anything that supports teaching and learning, teachers and students... and North Staffordshire Oatcakes...