All in For Students
A recent guest post on “The Benefits and Risks of ChatGPT for Education“ provided a balanced view on the use of AI in education by highlighting some of the pitfalls and opportunities to support various aspects of teaching and learning. Generative AI is not going anywhere and so…
The Yerkes-Dodson law is used frequently in performance settings. It has been applied to everything from work productivity to sports performance and the impact of anxiety on learning. But how did this research finding become a “law”? And how well has this been replicated?
Rapid technological advancement in the 21st century has influenced many sectors, including education. With over 100 million users, the new Artificial Intelligence tool ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) has gained significant popularity among students, teachers and researchers since its’ release in November 2022…
The research study I’m reviewing today tackles the issue of effectiveness vs. efficiency. In this series of studies, participants either received retrieval practice that was experimenter-controlled or the way that they wanted, which was typically to drop questions. Which one is better?
When I first encountered the concept of neurodiversity and began to understand what it meant to be neurodivergent, I was embarking on my university journey. At that point, my awareness of my mild dyscalculia diagnosis had only emerged during my high school years. It was a time when I grappled with self-consciousness…
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with is in improving their notetaking to help them manage the “fire hose” of information.
