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Mar 16

Mar 16 Cognitive Psychology and Education: Your Questions Answered (Volume 3)

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Learning Scientists Posts

A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered 5 reader questions, and then a follow-up with 5 more questions answered. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.

Q1: Is there any real magic to the “rule of 3”? ...

Mar 14

Mar 14 GUEST POST: Putting the Learning Scientists’ Work into Practice (Part 1)

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students

We recently published a guest post in which RE teacher Dawn Cox described her school’s approach to integrating cognitive science into teaching. In this follow-up 2-part post, Chemistry teacher Naomi Hennah describes how she scaffolds her students to use the strategies...

Mar 12

Mar 12 Weekly Digest #50: Our Most Popular Digests!

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Students, For Researchers, For Parents, Digests

We have now composed 50 digests! We started the digest tradition because a reader asked us whether we put together learning resources and sent them out to readers. At this time we were thinking about the best way to feature other great learning resources on our ...

Mar 2

Mar 2 Are Our Memories Like Libraries?

Yana Weinstein

For Teachers, For Parents, For Students, Learning Scientists Posts

Early on, before cognitive psychologists started researching the processes involved, memory was often described with a “library” analogy. This is the idea that memories are put down in our minds as though they were written down in books, and stored away ...

Feb 28

Feb 28 GUEST POST: What's "Brain Training", and Does it Work?

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Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers, For Students, For Parents

Brain-training is one of the newer fads that have come out in the past few years. The idea – similar to the traditional “fad diet” idea – is to put a little bit of work in, and receive a whole lot of results. A number of companies have tried to capitalize on the brain-training ...

Feb 26

Feb 26 Weekly Digest #48: Tools for Neurodivergent Brains

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, Digests

Having a disability can make school, work, and family relationships difficult because our world is generally designed for neurotypical people. Those of us who are nuerodivergent find ourselves struggling to be understood or have a fair chance completing ...