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Summary: Taking notes by hand seems to be better than taking notes using a laptop because it requires students to put the notes into their own words. However, the research is nuanced! It is important to remember, too, that if laptops are creating distractions learning will suffer. …
David is currently looking to partner with a select group of educators who are interested in free access to iDoRecall so that they can bring evidence-based learning techniques into the classroom and help their students use the tools that underlie iDoRecall to accelerate their academic success. Write david@iDoRecall.com for details.
As researchers attempting to bridge psychological science and education, we come across several challenges. Each of us has expertise in the area of retrieval practice, where many of the classic studies take place in the laboratory with simple materials.
In this article, Mike Bell suggests that there is sufficient consensus among those educationalists who look at the evidence to say that we now know how learning happens, why some students struggle and how to improve learning for any learner. By combining lists of effective methods derived from …
Last year, I founded the TILE (Teaching Innovation and Learning Enhancement) network at the University of Dundee. It’s a network that brings people from different disciplines and sectors together to discuss issues in education and ways to overcome them using research findings. In October 2018, Dr Peter Verkoeijen came all the way from the Netherlands to give a talk on applied research in the classrooms…
What’s it like to help people implement the science of learning? It’s hard but powerful. Plus, there are some clear lessons learned like making sure not to try to implement too many new strategies at once.
Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working on a Science of Learning grant …
