All tagged individual differences
For today’s VLOG post, Cindy interviewed Jessica Jackson, Director of Professional Learning for the Learner Variability Project @DigitalPromise. In this video, Jessica talks about the concept of learner variability and walks through all the fun tools available through the Learner Variability Project.
“Do adults learn differently?” This has been a fundamental question that I have been asked time and time again. Much of what we know about learning and memory comes from research on students To generalize from these studies to someone mid-career… is that reasonable?
My aunt challenged me to write a blog post about “our crazy family”. My aunt’s challenge made me think of my crazy family through the lens of cognitive psychology. We spend a lot of time together and, because of that shared experience, we have very similar knowledge structures (or schema).
Earlier this month one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition asked Twitter for some resources on how to improve communication for better information delivery. As a cognitive psychologist with a background in memory and linguistics who plays Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) I’ve thought about this question A LOT.
With advances in technology, the use of online and hybrid (partially online and partially in person) classes has increased. There seems to be a lot of excitement around different course formats that are available, with some institutions even pushing for more and more …
Two weeks ago, I went to the conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) in Potsdam, Germany. One of the talks that I attended intrigued me so much that I decided there and then that I needed to write a blog post about it. The talk was presented by Dr Allison Jaeger, who...
