Even among the top effective, evidence-based study strategies that we write about, spaced practice is one of the best. Spaced practice is all about when you engage in practice. It is better to spread practice out over time, rather than massing (cramming). This is true whether you are reviewing …
We have discussed the learning styles myth in different blog posts and you can find all of our posts in this topic here. Briefly, the idea of learning styles is that if you assess the learning styles in students and then match instruction accordingly…
Interleaving is the idea that, while learning, we will learn more if we jumble up our review of similar materials, rather than reviewing one concept at a time in a blocked format. One thing that we’ve heard from educators is that they worry interleaving can be too challenging for students and that students need some blocking first.
Our memory capabilities are fascinating and with some tricks we can expand our memory performance quite significantly. These tricks are called mnemonic devices. Mnemonic devices let us organize, elaborate, and visualize information so that we can…
If you use edtech in your classroom, you’ve probably seen at least one of the tools you use recently advertise their brand new “AI feature.”
At Podsie, the core of what we’re building has always been research-driven, so as the AI hype rages on, …
All four of us are in Portland, Oregon! We are here for the Society for the Teaching of Psychology annual conference. If you’re attending on location, please check out our talk on Friday (Oct 6) at 11:25 Pacific time in the Grand Ballroom. Our session is one of the ones being recorded, …
