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Weekly Digest #129: Students Under Stress
Oct 22

Oct 22 Weekly Digest #129: Students Under Stress

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

When one of our very first guest bloggers reached out to us recently asking about resources for students under severe stress, we realized that we hadn’t broached this issue on our blog yet. This hugely important issues will take more than a quick digest to explore,

Partial Graphic Organizers to Support Student Note-Taking and Learning
Oct 18

Oct 18 Partial Graphic Organizers to Support Student Note-Taking and Learning

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel
Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students

Most students in my lectures take notes. Maybe they have a system that they use or they just start each lecture with a blank page. I started thinking if there is anything that we – lecturers and teachers – could do to support student note-taking in any way.

Weekly Digest #128: Fall Safety
Oct 14

Oct 14 Weekly Digest #128: Fall Safety

Learning Scientists
For Teachers, For Parents, Digests

Two years ago, around this time of year, we published a digest on teaching kids about safety. Whether you and your family like to take part in Halloween festivities or like to steer clear of this holiday, teaching kids about safety can benefit them. In this digest, we revisit …

Retrieval Practice promotes Deductive Reasoning
Oct 11

Oct 11 Retrieval Practice promotes Deductive Reasoning

Cindy Nebel
For Researchers, For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

Testing sometimes gets a bad reputation. This is perhaps unsurprising in the world of standardized testing, but it has led to some misconceptions…

Weekly Digest #127: Women in Physics
Oct 7

Oct 7 Weekly Digest #127: Women in Physics

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

This past week Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on chirp pulse amplification. Dr. Strickland’s win was particularly notable because it has been 55 years since a woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

What does massed reading and watching do to attention?
Oct 6

Oct 6 What does massed reading and watching do to attention?

Yana Weinstein
For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

What happens when students read a text twice in a row or watch the same lecture video twice in a row? We know from research on retrieval practice and spaced practice that such “massed” repetition of information does little to enhance long-term learning.

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