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.
All in For Researchers
THANK YOU to our guest bloggers from 2016!
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,
GUEST POST: Why you should be a skeptical science consumer
Don’t take my word for it, but being a scientist is about being a skeptic. About not being satisfied with easy answers to hard problems. About not believing something merely because it seems plausible...nor about reading a scientific study and believing...
In Defense of Memory
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.
Does Piano Learning Benefit From Spaced Practice?
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...
GUEST POST: The Dark Side of Interleaving
In 2013, a 7-study paper on retrieval practice made a big splash. In 5 of the 7 experiments, students first learned pairs of faces and names on the computer, and were then asked either to restudy each pair,