I have to hand it to Google Scholar – sometimes, their algorithms are spot on. This week, I was alerted to a brand new meta-analysis on retrieval practice (1) – just published on February 1st. This meta-analysis is by far the most comprehensive ...
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Weekly Digest #45: Dual Coding, Sketchnoting, and Aphantasia
According to the dual coding theory (1), we process verbal and visual information through separate channels. We’ve written about how to study using dual coding (and the article was recently picked up by Digital Promise); we also had a student write about how she uses dual coding to study ...
GUEST POST: Learning About Current Events -- We Must Break Out of the Social Media Echo Chamber
This isn’t going to be a political post, but I need to briefly touch on politics to frame the narrative. I scroll through Facebook a couple times a day. Every time I refresh, I see a handful of news articles posted by friends. Predominantly, I turn to The New York ...
GUEST POST: Multimedia Learning -- Back to the Drawing Board?
How do you present visuals such as diagrams, charts, or graphs to your students? Perhaps you follow the contemporary approach by displaying a diagram on a PowerPoint slide and explaining what's shown on the slide. Or maybe you prefer the "old-school" ...
Weekly Digest #43: Unleash Your Creativity
Steve Jobs once said: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because ...
Cognitive Psychology and Education: Your Questions Answered (Volume 2)
A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered select reader questions. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.
Q1: Does retrieval practice also help ...