As many of you know, we’ve been busy creating materials to teach students how to study effectively: there are presentations that teachers can show in class, posters that can be hung around the classroom, bookmarks and stickers to remind ...
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Talking to Teachers and Students about Strategies for Effective Learning
Since we released our materials on six effective learning strategies from cognitive science*, we have each been trying to tell as many people as possible that these materials exist, in the hopes that teachers and students could benefit from using them. We have ...
Benefits of Spaced Practice: Simple Recommendations for Parents
Last week, we talked about how parents can handle homework requirements of grade-school children. This week, we discuss the benefits of spaced practice – one of the reasons why homework can be so important to encourage high levels of learning ...
How to do Homework: Simple Recommendations for Parents
A lot of our posts are aimed at students (39 posts so far), and many more at teachers (87 posts) – but we also want to involve parents in conversations about strategies for effective learning. So, dear parents of grade-school children: this one is for you! ...
The Combined Power of Sleep and Learning Strategies
In earlier blog posts we have discussed the benefits of sleep, spacing, and retrieval practice on long-term retention of information. As a (very) brief refresher, all three of these strategies increase the storage strength of information that we have studied ...
Incorporating (Good) Active Learning in the Classroom
Our latest digest provided several resources related to active learning. This trend in education has gotten a lot of press, but there has also been considerable push-back. Is active learning one of a number of education fads or is there evidence to support ...