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Apr 4

Apr 4 GUEST POST: Manipulatives – Why They Can Hinder Learning and What You Can Do About It

Guest Posts, For Researchers, For Teachers

You’re a teacher of an elementary school mathematics class planning a lesson on addition. You’d like to incorporate concrete objects (“manipulatives”) into the lesson. You have a choice: ...

Apr 2

Apr 2 Weekly Digest #53: Science Twitter in 2017

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, For Students, Digests

Given the current political climate, Twitter doesn’t seem to have as much science as it used to. In this digest, I’ve pulled together articles on why using Twitter may be even more important than ever, some tips on how to adjust the amount of science in your feed (relative to ‘everything else’), ...

Mar 30

Mar 30 How To Improve Your Metacognition and Why It Matters

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

For Researchers, For Students, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

A crucial aspect of learning is to know when you can stop studying a specific topic and move to the next or when to wrap-up studying altogether. A straightforward strategy would be to stop when you think you have mastered the topic. For this strategy to be successful, ...

Mar 23

Mar 23 Studying with Distractions

Cindy Nebel

For Students, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

We have previously written about studying while listening to music. As a brief reminder, it depends on the task and your personality whether background music will help, hinder, or not make a difference while studying. In this piece, we are again talking ...

Mar 16

Mar 16 Cognitive Psychology and Education: Your Questions Answered (Volume 3)

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Learning Scientists Posts

A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered 5 reader questions, and then a follow-up with 5 more questions answered. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.

Q1: Is there any real magic to the “rule of 3”? ...

Mar 12

Mar 12 Weekly Digest #50: Our Most Popular Digests!

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Digests

We have now composed 50 digests! We started the digest tradition because a reader asked us whether we put together learning resources and sent them out to readers. At this time we were thinking about the best way to feature other great learning resources on our ...