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Mar 21

Mar 21 GUEST POST: Putting the Learning Scientists’ Work into Practice (Part 2)

Last week, Naomi talked about how she implements spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice in her science classroom. Here, she talks about the other three strategies – elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. ...

Mar 14

Mar 14 GUEST POST: Putting the Learning Scientists’ Work into Practice (Part 1)

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students

We recently published a guest post in which RE teacher Dawn Cox described her school’s approach to integrating cognitive science into teaching. In this follow-up 2-part post, Chemistry teacher Naomi Hennah describes how she scaffolds her students to use the strategies...

Mar 7

Mar 7 GUEST POST: An Interview with a Writer who Believes that Stories help Science

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

Ulrich Boser is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he examines education issues. He just finished a book titled Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. He is also ...

Feb 28

Feb 28 GUEST POST: What's "Brain Training", and Does it Work?

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers, For Students, For Parents

Brain-training is one of the newer fads that have come out in the past few years. The idea – similar to the traditional “fad diet” idea – is to put a little bit of work in, and receive a whole lot of results. A number of companies have tried to capitalize on the brain-training ...

Feb 26

Feb 26 Weekly Digest #48: Tools for Neurodivergent Brains

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, Digests

Having a disability can make school, work, and family relationships difficult because our world is generally designed for neurotypical people. Those of us who are nuerodivergent find ourselves struggling to be understood or have a fair chance completing ...

Feb 21

Feb 21 GUEST POST: Stereotype Threat – Adding up the Pieces

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students

Whether we notice it or not, it can happen to all of us.

Take a minute to think about what kinds of groups you identify with. Are you white? Elderly? Gay? A woman?

Now take another minute to think of what stereotypes ...