This post continues a series of posts on the value of memory. I wrote a few months ago about how memory is used for everything we do, and recently published a post-humus guest blog by Ralph A. Raimi in defense of memorization.
All in For Students
Do Students Utilize Effective Learning Strategies?
For decades, and even centuries, cognitive psychologists have been studying the best ways to learn. For those who are frequent readers of our blog, I promise I won’t go on and on about the strategies and their evidence base… I know you’ve heard this all before. (But, for newer ...
Weekly Digest #94: Resources for Language Learners
Whether you are a student in a foreign language course, an international student in a new country, or using an App to learn a new language for fun, language learning is a daunting task. Language learners are faced with memorizing vocabulary...
Predicting Performance Improves Learning
Metacognition refers to the concept of “knowing what you know.” It involves the ability to make accurate predictions about how well you will be able to then retrieve information later on. The ability to make those predictions is very important.
Weekly Digest #93: Exercise and Learning 2.0
For Weekly Digest #31, we pulled together 5 resources on exercise and learning. But, there are TONS of resources out there about exercise and learning. Plus, in January we know a lot of people are thinking about good habits for 2018, and many may ...
A Note from the Learning Scientists: Today’s guest post is a little bit different from those we normally publish; that is it’s not directly related to classroom learning. This post discusses the fact that our memories are not like tape recorders. Instead, our memory is reconstructive.