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Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles
May 8

May 8 Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

We’ve come up with a set of criteria by which to judge articles that attempt to debunk learning styles (these are in addition to our standing criteria for judging sources that we include in the digests). In order to be maximally useful, a resource on learning styles must ...

The Many Benefits of Retrieval Practice
May 5

May 5 The Many Benefits of Retrieval Practice

Megan Sumeracki
For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

As you already know if you’ve been reading our blog, quizzing in the classroom helps students learn. For this reason, we have talked a fair amount about giving students frequent quizzes during class in previous blog posts. We discussed how to make quizzing fun ...

GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together
May 3

May 3 GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together

Learning Scientists
For Researchers, For Teachers, Guest Posts

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 ...

Weekly Digest #8: Study Tips for Students
May 1

May 1 Weekly Digest #8: Study Tips for Students

Learning Scientists
For Students, Digests

We thought that with final exams coming up, today's digest should be devoted to some helpful tips for successful studying, reviewing, and *gasp* cramming. Overall, if you are going to study effectively and not waste any precious time, you should try these 5 strategies ...

What do all those funny words mean?  A primer on English educational jargon for Americans
Apr 28

Apr 28 What do all those funny words mean? A primer on English educational jargon for Americans

Yana Weinstein
For Teachers, For Researchers, For Parents, Learning Scientists Posts

This guide came about because I (Yana) noticed that I was often having to translate terms from English sources to our American audience. 

Here we present a set of terms commonly used in England when referring to education. ...

GUEST POST: A Teacher Talks About What Teachers Want
Apr 26

Apr 26 GUEST POST: A Teacher Talks About What Teachers Want

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, Guest Posts

my (@AmyRamponi) teaches AP Psychology at Kimberly High School, Kimberly WI

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