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The world will never be the same since we own digital devices. Indeed, the Internet can alter cognitive processes (1), for example, by promoting continuous division of attention - which in turn reduces our ability to maintain concentration on a particular task.
Mnemonics are powerful learning tools to inculcate the art of empirical learning. They play a predominant role in capitalizing on humans' naturally endeavoring memory process and exemplify impactful strategies when it comes to learning and education…
Why this neuromyth persists and how we, as teachers and researchers might continue to disseminate the message that matching instruction to a preferred learning style will not raise achievement, is the focus of a recent publication, written specifically for this audience.[7] Along with this Guest Blog, I hope it goes some way to giving teachers (and students) an accessible foundation to contextualise this neuromyth and engage in a firm evidence-base in which to dispel it!
Several studies of undergraduate and graduate students have demonstrated that most tend to gravitate towards using ineffective and passive learning strategies to include re-reading and recopying notes, reading, highlighting and then re-reading the text, re-listening or re-watching lectures and engaging in cramming or blocking of study when they study…
As a former high school math and science teacher, one question drove me nuts: when will we ever use this again? According to researchers Kron et al. (1), it turns out the stuff you learned in school just might be the kind of cognitive exercises that are the keys to influencing your feelings…
As a teacher who has taught English for twenty-five years, I have some thoughts. In my experience, words spelt correctly in spelling tests are often incorrectly spelt in a piece of writing – even in the same week. … If you think about the way that spelling is often tested in primary schools (after some explicit instruction, e.g., in suffix endings (tautology?)) and with spelling lists learned for weekly tests, the method commonly used is a classic example of blocked practice
