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GUEST POST: Attention -- What is it, and How Can We Control it?
Feb 14

Feb 14 GUEST POST: Attention -- What is it, and How Can We Control it?

Learning Scientists
Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents

As children develop, they are expected to meet the demands of the educational system. But what if there are learning difficulties or other problems that get in the way? Research shows that while learning problems are the cause of many educational ...

Weekly Digest #46: Ignite Discussions in the Classroom
Feb 12

Feb 12 Weekly Digest #46: Ignite Discussions in the Classroom

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, Digests

When students give feedback to teachers on their teaching one point that often comes up is that they wish there was more discussion. However, when teachers try to get discussions going in the classroom it often fails because only a few students contribute or ...

New Meta-analysis of 217 Retrieval Practice Studies
Feb 9

Feb 9 New Meta-analysis of 217 Retrieval Practice Studies

Yana Weinstein
For Researchers, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

I have to hand it to Google Scholar – sometimes, their algorithms are spot on. This week, I was alerted to a brand new meta-analysis on retrieval practice (1) – just published on February 1st. This meta-analysis is by far the most comprehensive ...

GUEST POST: Eureka... It Works!
Feb 7

Feb 7 GUEST POST: Eureka... It Works!

Learning Scientists
Guest Posts, For Students, For Parents

I had the opportunity to tutor students in Introduction to Psychology last semester at Rhode Island College. I have never tutored before this semester, but when I was contemplating how to approach tutoring, I decided to treat it like a study group. I knew ...

Weekly Digest #45: Dual Coding, Sketchnoting, and Aphantasia
Feb 5

Feb 5 Weekly Digest #45: Dual Coding, Sketchnoting, and Aphantasia

Learning Scientists
For Researchers, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, Digests

According to the dual coding theory (1), we process verbal and visual information through separate channels. We’ve written about how to study using dual coding (and the article was recently picked up by Digital Promise); we also had a student write about how she uses dual coding to study ...

Bad Memory? Try the Techniques of the Ancient Greeks
Feb 2

Feb 2 Bad Memory? Try the Techniques of the Ancient Greeks

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel
For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

Have you ever seen clips of people competing in so-called memory competitions and asked yourself: How do they do this? How are they able to memorize a whole bunch of random facts or numbers in a short amount of time? Watch the video ...

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