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May 12

May 12 Be Your Own Teacher: How To Study With Pictures

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, Guest Posts

Hey! Let's play a little game. Read the two sentences below:

A. Lar gibbons have white fur around the perimeter of their faces.

B. Mandrills have blue, red and yellow coloring on their faces. ...

May 8

May 8 Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

We’ve come up with a set of criteria by which to judge articles that attempt to debunk learning styles (these are in addition to our standing criteria for judging sources that we include in the digests). In order to be maximally useful, a resource on learning styles must ...

May 5

May 5 The Many Benefits of Retrieval Practice

Megan Sumeracki

For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

As you already know if you’ve been reading our blog, quizzing in the classroom helps students learn. For this reason, we have talked a fair amount about giving students frequent quizzes during class in previous blog posts. We discussed how to make quizzing fun ...

May 3

May 3 GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Teachers, Guest Posts

With the Learning Scientists project, we’re trying various ways of connecting researchers with teachers – social media, blogging, and online discussion forums. When we happened upon @EvidenceFTFrontline, we were instantly impressed by their model, and ...