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Mar 14

Mar 14 GUEST POST: When feedback is forgettable

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

Which type of feedback do your students prefer to receive: past-oriented feedback about how they performed, or future-oriented feedback about how they could improve?

Mar 4

Mar 4 Weekly Digest #99: In Defense of Inquiry Learning

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

In June, we posted a digest that we (somewhat regretfully) titled The Case Against Inquiry-Based Learning. We have received multiple messages since that time from individuals who felt that we were too harsh on inquiry learning.

Mar 1

Mar 1 Who Should Create Study Plans?

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

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

One aspect that seems important when it comes to self-regulated learning is the ability to plan one’s own learning and, for instance, to decide what material to study next, how long to study the material for, and how to study the material. Being allowed to be in charge of such planning promises to have positive effects on motivation...

Feb 25

Feb 25 Weekly Digest #98: Science of Learning Initiatives

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Teachers, Digests

Our regular readers will know that we are passionate about the science of learning, and over the past couple of years our blog and social media presence have become a bit of a hub for teachers and other educators interested in the science of learning.

Feb 22

Feb 22 Which Should Come First: Problem-Solving or Instruction?

Cindy Nebel

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) classes have been the strong focus of discovery ( or constructivist, problem-based, active-learning) methods of instruction, certainly with some success...

Feb 16

Feb 16 Memorizing versus Understanding

Yana Weinstein

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

This post continues a series of posts on the value of memory. I wrote a few months ago about how memory is used for everything we do, and recently published a post-humus guest blog by Ralph A. Raimi in defense of memorization.