As a cognitive psychology professor, I teach about cognitive networks and how we process, organize, and respond to the world around us. We are able to quickly and flexibly process and categorize items around us, understanding what they are and …
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AI and Adolescent Well-Being: New APA Health Advisory
With Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications expanding rapidly into daily life, The American Psychological Association (APA) has issued a health advisory on the impacts of AI on adolescent well-being (1). The health advisory synthesizes research on different aspects of AI use and provides recommendations to maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing harm.
Imitation versus Retrieval Practice in Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning
A couple of months ago I have started re-learning French with a language learning app. I studied French in school for many years and was quite fluent in it at the end of my schooling. Unfortunately, I then stopped speaking or engaging in the language. Fast forward to today...
Digest #180: Marking Rubrics in Education
Delivering engaging and effective presentations is important when it comes to teaching or when presenting work at conferences. As teachers, we may want to help our students to develop their presentation skills…
The Science of Motivation
Many educators struggle with student motivation and, often, it feels like something that is out of our hands. But there are things that we can do to support motivation in the classroom and to keep it going, even when Johnny would rather be anywhere but here.
Dual Coding and Cognitive Load
In today’s blog, I’m covering an older paper by Mousavi, Low, and Sweller from 1995 (1) titled Reducing Cognitive Load by Mixing Auditory and Visual Presentation Modes. The goal of their paper was to experimentally test whether heavy cognitive overload could …