Imagine you come back to your hometown after moving away ten years ago, and you visit your favorite coffee shop that you went to nearly every day in high school. If it’s a good coffee shop, and you haven’t been there in some time, odds are you’ll be overwhelmed with ...
Calling all students, teachers, and parents: It's nearly summer!!! Summer break can be great, and can give us the rest and relaxation that we need. (Check out one of our digests last year on the importance of taking a break over the summer.) However, it's also ...
Yana: When we first started the Learning Scientists project, we had some fascinating early conversations with teachers about how they might realistically integrate spaced practice into their teaching. While most teachers can see the value of spaced practice, many ...
I recently presented at the Derby College Showcase conference, whose theme was inclusion.
It was easy to place the value of visual communication in the theme of inclusion. I started off with two exercises to immerse the teachers into what it feels like ...
Last week, we had a blog post about Service Learning as an innovative and engaging teaching concept. Due to the vital interest in further information about this teaching strategy, we thought it would be a good idea to provide some more resources in this week’s digest. ...
We have frequently received questions from students that go something like this: “I used your strategies and I still didn’t do very well on my exam. What did I do wrong?” We tried to address this a bit in a recent blog post explaining the strategies, and ...
