“Forgetting focuses remembering and fosters learning; remembering generates learning and causes forgetting; learning causes forgetting, begets remembering, and supports new learning.” – Bjork, 2011, p 16. ...
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Weekly Digest #9: How to Talk About Learning Styles
We’ve come up with a set of criteria by which to judge articles that attempt to debunk learning styles (these are in addition to our standing criteria for judging sources that we include in the digests). In order to be maximally useful, a resource on learning styles must ...
GUEST POST: Evidence For the Frontline -- Teachers and Researchers Working Together
With the Learning Scientists project, we’re trying various ways of connecting researchers with teachers – social media, blogging, and online discussion forums. When we happened upon @EvidenceFTFrontline, we were instantly impressed by their model, and ...
What do all those funny words mean? A primer on English educational jargon for Americans
This guide came about because I (Yana) noticed that I was often having to translate terms from English sources to our American audience.
Here we present a set of terms commonly used in England when referring to education. ...
GUEST POST: Homework -- Is It Really That Useless?
First and foremost I feel compelled to mention that I am not a scientist, though I do like to say that I play one on TV (even though I actually don’t). So, I am writing this piece about homework from the standpoint of an overeager parent. I am a big fan of science ...
Concept Map: What Does Retrieval Practice Do?
Over the past week, we have been working with Oliver Caviglioli to develop a concept map that depicts how we conceptualize retrieval practice. There are a lot of things we as researchers take for granted about this cognitive process, and Oliver thought it would ...