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Nov 26

Nov 26 Weekly Digest #87: Encouraging Moral and Ethical Behavior

For Teachers, For Parents, For Researchers, Digests

As Yana mentioned in her post, we at the Learning Scientists are giving thanks, and so are many others. To stick with this theme, in this week's digest, we present 5 resources about teaching and modeling moral and ethical behavior.

Nov 23

Nov 23 THANK YOU to our guest bloggers from 2016!

Learning Scientists

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

We're right in the middle of a season where a lot of us are giving thanks and reflecting on the year we have had. For some of us it is because of American or Canadian Thanksgiving, Japanese Labour Thanksgiving, or Turkish National Day of Thanks,

Nov 17

Nov 17 In Defense of Memory

Yana Weinstein

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

I’m very passionate about memory. I’ve dedicated most of my adult life so far to examining how our human memory works. But why? Well, think about your life. Think about how you define yourself, who you are. Maybe you see yourself as a hard worker.

Nov 15

Nov 15 GUEST POST: Language about ability, mindset, and motivation and performance

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Parents

It is commonly known that telling a child she is stupid is harmful. But what about telling her she is smart? Although the latter case is unlikely to be as bad as the former, there is research to suggest that even praising a child’s intelligence (as well as other abilities) may have negative effects,

Nov 12

Nov 12 Weekly Digest #85: Adjunct Questions

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Digests

We recently featured a blog post on recent research showing that prequestions can be useful for learning from video lectures. However, research on adjunct questions is not new. Much of this research builds on work that was pioneered by Rothkopf in the ...

Nov 9

Nov 9 Does Piano Learning Benefit From Spaced Practice?

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

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Today, I thought it would be nice to revisit the topic of music, but in a different way: A recent study (1) investigated whether learning to play the piano benefits from spaced practice and, to my surprise, they found this not to be the case...