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Jul 9

Jul 9 Weekly Digest #116: Getting Ready for Effective Teaching

It’s only 53 days to September 1st, so a lot of us are thinking about starting to get ready for the Fall (perhaps not quite getting ready yet - but thinking about it!).

Jul 5

Jul 5 Optimizing Your Learning Schedule

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students

One of the most effective learning strategies is spaced practice – the distribution of study time across multiple smaller study sessions. This learning strategy dates back to Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885 who conducted the first systematic investigations of spaced practice with himself as a participant…

Jul 3

Jul 3 GUEST POST: Phone Use

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Guest Posts

You are in high school sitting in a school desk. Flimsy metal feet of the chair, which are connected to the desk, squeak on the floor. Your run your palms along a particleboard desktop.

Jul 1

Jul 1 Weekly Digest #115: Open Access Education Journals

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Teachers, Digests

We firmly believe that it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to be an expert in everything. This is one of the reasons bidirectional communication is so important! Learning researchers and teachers have spent their careers becoming experts in …

Jun 28

Jun 28 Using Retrieval Practice for Transfer in an Online Class

Cindy Nebel

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Retrieval practice produces benefits to learning in many different situations, but trying to get students to transfer their knowledge to a new situation is tricky business. There is some evidence that retrieval practice can be used to get students to think more deeply…

Jun 27

Jun 27 GUEST POST: The Mythical Land of Psychological Types and Its Impact on Education

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Parents, For Students, For Teachers

Since writing my previous guest post on the negative impact learning style theories have on effective student learning, I have been fixated on the many learning myths and misconceptions that seem endemic in education.