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

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

Learning Scientists
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 ...

Weekly Digest #49: Read to Me: Benefits of Reading to Children
Mar 5

Mar 5 Weekly Digest #49: Read to Me: Benefits of Reading to Children

Learning Scientists
For Parents, Digests

In this digest, we wanted to find good resources around the topic of reading to children. What are the benefits of reading to children and emerging them in literature at a young age and are there free online resources that parents can use? There are many programs to motivate ...

Are Our Memories Like Libraries?
Mar 2

Mar 2 Are Our Memories Like Libraries?

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

Early on, before cognitive psychologists started researching the processes involved, memory was often described with a “library” analogy. This is the idea that memories are put down in our minds as though they were written down in books, and stored away ...

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

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

Learning Scientists
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 ...

Weekly Digest #48: Tools for Neurodivergent Brains
Feb 26

Feb 26 Weekly Digest #48: Tools for Neurodivergent Brains

Learning Scientists
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 ...

All Learning is Brain Learning
Feb 23

Feb 23 All Learning is Brain Learning

Cindy Nebel
For Researchers, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

One of the frequent gimmicks supplied to educators is that a product enhances “brain learning” or something of that sort. Well, folks, we’re here to tell you that all learning takes place in the brain. (And so these are marketing ploys.) In today’s blog, I ...

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