In this guest post interview Mike Bell explains how he got interested in evidence-based teaching and provides an overview of his new book “The Fundamentals of Teaching“…
All in For Teachers
Unlearning Neuromyths
One of our goals as Learning Scientists is to make sure that research is communicated in an accessible but accurate way. Unfortunately, many times science dissemination results in miscommunication and translation such that the original results and message are skewed.
Designing Effective Instructional Videos
Last summer, many instructors were scrambling to adjust to teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. For many teachers that meant developing videos for students to watch. We’ve discussed some of the research on how students learn from videos, and this week I want to take a look at how best to create videos for students.
Digest #153: Neurodiversity in Education
For today’s digest I teamed up with Dr Chiara Horlin who is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Glasgow and an expert in neurodiversity and what role it plays in education…
The Value of Knowing Your Audience
My aunt challenged me to write a blog post about “our crazy family”. My aunt’s challenge made me think of my crazy family through the lens of cognitive psychology. We spend a lot of time together and, because of that shared experience, we have very similar knowledge structures (or schema).
GUEST POST: THE BIG REVEAL: Showing Students How Metacognition Works
When I talk to adults about metacognition, I begin with a broken vacuum cleaner (a picture of it, that is) and ask, 'What would you do if your vacuum stopped working?’ Someone always says they would kick it, but most people take a more measured approach. They might begin by opening it up to see …