College students have been found to spend at least nine hours of each day on their smart phone (3). Despite classes, extracurriculars, and socializing, college students spend the majority of their time awake on their cell phones.
All in For Students
Hocus Focus
It’s the time of year when the days are getting shorter and, in the case of some of my students, so are attention spans…
Weekly Digest #129: Students Under Stress
When one of our very first guest bloggers reached out to us recently asking about resources for students under severe stress, we realized that we hadn’t broached this issue on our blog yet. This hugely important issues will take more than a quick digest to explore,
Partial Graphic Organizers to Support Student Note-Taking and Learning
Most students in my lectures take notes. Maybe they have a system that they use or they just start each lecture with a blank page. I started thinking if there is anything that we – lecturers and teachers – could do to support student note-taking in any way.
Weekly Digest #127: Women in Physics
This past week Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on chirp pulse amplification. Dr. Strickland’s win was particularly notable because it has been 55 years since a woman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Highlighting With Reservations
After reading a summary of the research on highlighting I became an adamant anti-highlighter (1). I mean, it was worse than re-reading in some cases. Re-reading. The standard control in memory experiments.