Whether you are a student in a foreign language course, an international student in a new country, or using an App to learn a new language for fun, language learning is a daunting task. Language learners are faced with memorizing vocabulary...
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GUEST POST: On Rote Memory
Today's guest post is a little different in that it is a reblog of a piece by an author who is no longer with us. A few months ago, Yana published a blog post called "In Defense of Memory", where she discussed all the different ways that memory is used throughout our lives.
A Note from the Learning Scientists: Today’s guest post is a little bit different from those we normally publish; that is it’s not directly related to classroom learning. This post discusses the fact that our memories are not like tape recorders. Instead, our memory is reconstructive.
GUEST POST: Boosting Metacognition and Executive Functions in the Classroom
During your teaching career, you have probably come across students who can easily complete short, structured, tasks, yet often forget to do their homework or unexpectedly perform poorly on tests. Many psychologists explain this pattern of behavior as arising from...
GUEST POST: Equivalence-based instruction in the classroom
Have you ever noticed how children learn to read? Typically, they learn by seeing pictures of animals and hearing a parent say the animal name aloud. Next, children repeat the name and look at the picture. Then, children point to the picture or say the name ...
GUEST POST: Cumulative Compensatory Assessment in Engineering Education
Procrastination – that is, delaying the start or completion of intended work – is extremely common among higher education students (1). The situation in Anton’s Materials Science 1 course, (part of the first-year Engineering curriculum at Avans University of Applied Sciences),