As Yana mentioned in her post, we at the Learning Scientists are giving thanks, and so are many others. To stick with this theme, in this week's digest, we present 5 resources about teaching and modeling moral and ethical behavior.
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As Yana mentioned in her post, we at the Learning Scientists are giving thanks, and so are many others. To stick with this theme, in this week's digest, we present 5 resources about teaching and modeling moral and ethical behavior.
We're right in the middle of a season where a lot of us are giving thanks and reflecting on the year we have had. For some of us it is because of American or Canadian Thanksgiving, Japanese Labour Thanksgiving, or Turkish National Day of Thanks,
I’m very passionate about memory. I’ve dedicated most of my adult life so far to examining how our human memory works. But why? Well, think about your life. Think about how you define yourself, who you are. Maybe you see yourself as a hard worker.
It is commonly known that telling a child she is stupid is harmful. But what about telling her she is smart? Although the latter case is unlikely to be as bad as the former, there is research to suggest that even praising a child’s intelligence (as well as other abilities) may have negative effects,
Today, I thought it would be nice to revisit the topic of music, but in a different way: A recent study (1) investigated whether learning to play the piano benefits from spaced practice and, to my surprise, they found this not to be the case...
Today, one of our co-founders (Yana) is giving a keynote at a conference with Anders Ericsson, the leading expert on expertise (yes, you read that right). In honor of this, for today's digest we have put together a set of resources on deliberate practice ...