… Many of my white colleagues have expressed their shock and dismay at the current state of our country. “Why does this keep happening? What can we do?” one colleague asked in an email to faculty and staff. This is my response to my colleague.
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Student Ability, Self-Regulated Spaced Practice, and Performance In Online Learning
A recently published study by Carvalho, Sana, and Yan (1) contributes to the evidence base supporting spaced practice by approaching the question about the benefits of spaced practice differently: They recorded the authentic study behavior of students enrolled in an online course…
GUEST POST: How Exercise Improves Student Mental Health
You no doubt realise that exercise is essential for kids physically, but a mounting body of evidence is confirming the benefits of physical activity for young peoples’ mental wellbeing. Given the alarming statistics regarding mental health in children and adolescents, teachers can…
A Statistics Primer for the Overwhelmed Educator
I’ve spent the last ten years teaching behavioral science statistics, so I thought it might be worthwhile to write up a short description of some common statistical terms that appear in psychology papers to help overwhelmed educators who might want to interpret results but don’t have time to take a course in stats!
Six Strategies for Effective Distance Learning: A Summary for Teachers
Currently, in 2020, most of us are engaging in some sort of distance learning, and planning to do so in the near future. So, in the most recent podcast, Episode 47, I talked about emergency distance instruction and a few ways that the six strategies could be implemented in distance courses. For today’s blog, …
Digest #143: Using Podcasts
During the COVID-19 quarantine one of the challenges facing teachers is how to adapt their courses to teaching online. In our last digest we offered a number of resources to support teaching and learning online. In this digest we will focus on one way to teach online: using a podcast…If you’ve been thinking about exploring this option for teaching then the following resources will help you get started.