Whether we notice it or not, it can happen to all of us.
Take a minute to think about what kinds of groups you identify with. Are you white? Elderly? Gay? A woman?
Now take another minute to think of what stereotypes ...
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GUEST POST: Attention -- What is it, and How Can We Control it?
As children develop, they are expected to meet the demands of the educational system. But what if there are learning difficulties or other problems that get in the way? Research shows that while learning problems are the cause of many educational ...
GUEST POST: Eureka... It Works!
I had the opportunity to tutor students in Introduction to Psychology last semester at Rhode Island College. I have never tutored before this semester, but when I was contemplating how to approach tutoring, I decided to treat it like a study group. I knew ...
Weekly Digest #45: Dual Coding, Sketchnoting, and Aphantasia
According to the dual coding theory (1), we process verbal and visual information through separate channels. We’ve written about how to study using dual coding (and the article was recently picked up by Digital Promise); we also had a student write about how she uses dual coding to study ...
Bad Memory? Try the Techniques of the Ancient Greeks
Have you ever seen clips of people competing in so-called memory competitions and asked yourself: How do they do this? How are they able to memorize a whole bunch of random facts or numbers in a short amount of time? Watch the video ...
GUEST POST: Learning About Current Events -- We Must Break Out of the Social Media Echo Chamber
This isn’t going to be a political post, but I need to briefly touch on politics to frame the narrative. I scroll through Facebook a couple times a day. Every time I refresh, I see a handful of news articles posted by friends. Predominantly, I turn to The New York ...