All in Digests
It may be hard to believe, but the end of the school year and the start of summer vacation is right around the corner. Summer break can be great for a lot of things (like relaxing!), but for kids being away from school can be problematic to learning (To read more about ...
We have talked about the pros and cons of cell phones in classrooms, the importance of attention for learning, and how the presence of a cell phone reduces cognitive capacity. This week's digest provides some additional resources for understanding how ...
In our last #LrnSciChat on Twitter, we discussed note-taking in length – see a summary of the Twitter chat here. In addition, Carolina wrote a blog post discussing the outcomes of the Note-Taking Twitter chat. However, we thought it would be useful to provide an overview of different note-taking strategies in form of a digest.
According to the study, “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation”, women are vastly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs in the US. The report further states that women hold less than 25 % of STEM jobs.
We know that the transition as students move through their education can be difficult for students (and their parents). Choosing where to go to apply to college/university, how to apply, and how to fund the higher education can be one of the more difficult aspects ...
In today’s digest, we want to give an overview of ways that teachers are implementing learning strategies in their classroom. Teachers continue developing creative ways to use the different learning strategies in their instruction and we thought for our 100th weekly digest it would be nice to highlight five teacher implementations.
