The learning science field has equipped both teachers and students alike with a robust toolset of effective learning strategies. But do the learning strategies we’ve come to know and love transfer between learning environments? For example, just ...
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GUEST POST: The Importance of Content Curation, and Tips for Teachers and Students
At St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, Dr. Corinne Weisgerber is teaching a class on social and interactive media. In addition to building a Personal Learning Network of online mentors and experts they can use to supplement their Google searches, her students ...
GUEST POST: An Interview With a Language Teacher
Jake Hunton, @jakehuntonMFL, is Head of Languages, author of Fun Learning Activities for FL, passionate about anything that supports teaching and learning, teachers and students... and North Staffordshire Oatcakes...
GUEST POST: Where Do You Get Your Information From About How Students Learn?
For most, this question may seem an odd one. But sound evidence-based practice requires teachers to discriminate, apply and evaluate a variety of sources in order to answer such questions. Do you do that? Oliver Caviglioli and the Learning Scientists ...
GUEST POST: Are Teachers As Influential As They Think They Are?
A few months ago, I published a post titled ‘Our duty as role models’. I matter-of-factly stated that teachers are role models and that students are influenced by our behaviors. Learning Scientist Dr. Yana Weinstein praised my post on social media, but questioned ...
GUEST POST: An Interview With an Educational Realist and Grumpy Old Man
Paul A. Kirschner, @P_A_Kirschner, is Distinguished University Professor in the Welten Institute at the Open University of the Netherlands and describes himself as an educational realist and grumpy old man. Together with collaborator Mirjam Neelen, @MirjamN, Paul writes a rigorously evidence-based educational blog (for an article on homework that we reblogged, see here.