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. ...
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GUEST POST: Retrieval Strength Vs. Storage Strength
“Forgetting focuses remembering and fosters learning; remembering generates learning and causes forgetting; learning causes forgetting, begets remembering, and supports new learning.” – Bjork, 2011, p 16. ...
GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together
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 ...
GUEST POST: A Teacher Talks About What Teachers Want
my (@AmyRamponi) teaches AP Psychology at Kimberly High School, Kimberly WI
GUEST POST: Rethinking Teacher Training -- How Mathematics and Education Departments Can Help
What can Mathematics and Education Departments do to help teachers be prepared to teach well as soon as they start working in the classroom? In my previous post, I suggested that teachers should be certified into one of three streams (Primary, Junior and ...
GUEST POST: Spacing in Teaching Practice
Like many teachers, I have become intrigued by the idea that simply by changing the gap between two or more learning activities such as explanations or revision, I can help my students do better - the so-called ‘spacing effect’. What wonderful thing is this ...