A lot of our posts are aimed at students (39 posts so far), and many more at teachers (87 posts) – but we also want to involve parents in conversations about strategies for effective learning. So, dear parents of grade-school children: this one is for you! ...
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 ...
A few days ago, we reblogged a portion of Saga Briggs’ blog from InformED where she highlighted the importance of content curation skills. This week for our digest, Saga provides her top 5 resources to help students and teachers curate information ...
In earlier blog posts we have discussed the benefits of sleep, spacing, and retrieval practice on long-term retention of information. As a (very) brief refresher, all three of these strategies increase the storage strength of information that we have studied ...
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 ...
There’s a meme that often goes around of a pie-chart showing the main things people learn from group work; by far the largest slice of the pie is “TRUST NO-ONE”. Many students dread group projects. But, you know what? So do many teachers. We dread having ...
