All in For Teachers
Researchers and education scholars have been debating about the answer to this question for decades (1, 2). Some have suggested that novice learners should receive direct instruction. In other words, to learn best they need guidance, and instructors should ...
Ulrich Boser is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he examines education issues. He just finished a book titled Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything. He is also ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One of the frequent gimmicks supplied to educators is that a product enhances “brain learning” or something of that sort. Well, folks, we’re here to tell you that all learning takes place in the brain. (And so these are marketing ploys.) In today’s blog, I ...
