It's the weekend before Halloween, and many of the decorations and activities at this time of the year are meant to be scary. If you're a parent, you may also have very happy emotions associated with Halloween, visiting pumpkin patches, carving ...
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Teaching the Science of Learning to Students – Part 2, Do College Students Transfer their Use of Effective Learning Strategies?
This is a two-part blog series. Now, in Part 2, I will share some of the collaborative work I have been doing to create first-year seminar materials to help teach the science of learning to first-year college students, what I have learned anecdotally, and the many ...
Teaching the Science of Learning to Students – Part 1, Why We Started the Learning Scientists Project
This is a two-part blog series. In Part 1, I tell some personal stories about why we started the Learning Scientists Project, and highlight some important issues related to evidence for the six strategies producing effective learning and evidence that students can transfer ...
Separation From Your Cellphone Boosts Your Cognitive Capacity
In a recent weekly digest, we explored the pros and cons about cellphones in the classroom. In today’s blog post, I would like to contribute to that discussion by presenting a new research study that looked into the effects of the mere presence of one’s cellphone while performing...
Combining Effective Learning Strategies
Those of you who read our blog frequently are not strangers to the six strategies for effective learning. I’m sure you’ve noticed – we talk about these strategies a lot, and also the sky is blue. But for those who aren’t reading our blog every week, here’s a bit of history ...
Weekly Digest #76: YouTube Channels to Help You Study
We've previously released a digest of educational videos, as well as a guest post on guidelines for designing them. In this digest, we wanted to highlight 5 YouTube channels that were particularly useful to those of us studying specific content.