This post continues a series of posts on the value of memory. I wrote a few months ago about how memory is used for everything we do, and recently published a post-humus guest blog by Ralph A. Raimi in defense of memorization.
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Weekly Digest #93: Exercise and Learning 2.0
For Weekly Digest #31, we pulled together 5 resources on exercise and learning. But, there are TONS of resources out there about exercise and learning. Plus, in January we know a lot of people are thinking about good habits for 2018, and many may ...
A Note from the Learning Scientists: Today’s guest post is a little bit different from those we normally publish; that is it’s not directly related to classroom learning. This post discusses the fact that our memories are not like tape recorders. Instead, our memory is reconstructive.
Weekly Digest #90: Ways To Keep Kids Engaged With Learning During Winter Break
Time to relax and unwind is important, but the winter break can feel long and maybe you are looking for ways to enrich the winter break with your kids with some learning highlights. In today’s digest, you find five resources on how to keep you and or your kids engaged with learning during the winter break.
Do Lessons in Music, Chess, or “Brain Training" Cause Students to do Better in School?
There is a commonly held belief that engaging in certain activities might increase a student’s overall cognitive ability, which could subsequently improve that same student’s performance in school (1, 2). For example, according to this belief, a student who frequently ...
Weekly Digest #87: Encouraging Moral and Ethical Behavior
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.