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Mar 16

Mar 16 The Availability Heuristic

For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts, For Students

Heuristics are mental shortcuts that allow you navigate the world quickly and efficiently. Many heuristics are very useful, because they allow you to understand a situation and respond to it without processing every piece of information in detail.

Mar 14

Mar 14 GUEST POST: When feedback is forgettable

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

Which type of feedback do your students prefer to receive: past-oriented feedback about how they performed, or future-oriented feedback about how they could improve?

Mar 11

Mar 11 Weekly Digest #100: Teachers' Implementations Of Learning Strategies

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For Teachers, Digests

In today’s digest, we want to give an overview of ways that teachers are implementing learning strategies in their classroom. Teachers continue developing creative ways to use the different learning strategies in their instruction and we thought for our 100th weekly digest it would be nice to highlight five teacher implementations.

Mar 8

Mar 8 Different Research Methods: Strengths and Weaknesses

Megan Sumeracki

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

There are a lot of different methods of conducting research, and each comes with its own set of strengths and weaknesses. While most researchers are exposed to a variety of methodologies throughout graduate training, we tend to become engrossed with ...

Mar 4

Mar 4 Weekly Digest #99: In Defense of Inquiry Learning

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, For Researchers, Digests

In June, we posted a digest that we (somewhat regretfully) titled The Case Against Inquiry-Based Learning. We have received multiple messages since that time from individuals who felt that we were too harsh on inquiry learning.

Mar 1

Mar 1 Who Should Create Study Plans?

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

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

One aspect that seems important when it comes to self-regulated learning is the ability to plan one’s own learning and, for instance, to decide what material to study next, how long to study the material for, and how to study the material. Being allowed to be in charge of such planning promises to have positive effects on motivation...