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Jul 3

Jul 3 GUEST POST: Phone Use

You are in high school sitting in a school desk. Flimsy metal feet of the chair, which are connected to the desk, squeak on the floor. Your run your palms along a particleboard desktop.

Jul 1

Jul 1 Weekly Digest #115: Open Access Education Journals

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Teachers, Digests

We firmly believe that it would be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to be an expert in everything. This is one of the reasons bidirectional communication is so important! Learning researchers and teachers have spent their careers becoming experts in …

Jun 28

Jun 28 Using Retrieval Practice for Transfer in an Online Class

Cindy Nebel

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Retrieval practice produces benefits to learning in many different situations, but trying to get students to transfer their knowledge to a new situation is tricky business. There is some evidence that retrieval practice can be used to get students to think more deeply…

Jun 27

Jun 27 GUEST POST: The Mythical Land of Psychological Types and Its Impact on Education

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Parents, For Students, For Teachers

Since writing my previous guest post on the negative impact learning style theories have on effective student learning, I have been fixated on the many learning myths and misconceptions that seem endemic in education.

Jun 24

Jun 24 Weekly Digest #114: Productivity

Learning Scientists

For Researchers, For Students, For Teachers, For Parents, Digests

The research on productivity shows that we tend to be more productive when we are happier, take breaks, and take advantage of vacations!

Jun 22

Jun 22 Learning Strategies Promoted by Academic Support Centers

Yana Weinstein

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

Did you know we had a Learning Scientists Q&A group on Facebook? Members of this group are teachers, parents, students, and others interested in education from all over the world.