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One of the frequent gimmicks supplied to educators is that a product enhances “brain learning” or something of that sort. Well, folks, we’re here to tell you that all learning takes place in the brain. (And so these are marketing ploys.) In today’s blog, I ...
If you’ve ever taught, you’re probably familiar with the following experience: a student comes to your office, incredulous that they got a bad grade on a test. “But, but, I studied a lot and I was so sure I knew the material!” There are two key timepoints at which ...
I have to hand it to Google Scholar – sometimes, their algorithms are spot on. This week, I was alerted to a brand new meta-analysis on retrieval practice (1) – just published on February 1st. This meta-analysis is by far the most comprehensive ...
Have you ever seen clips of people competing in so-called memory competitions and asked yourself: How do they do this? How are they able to memorize a whole bunch of random facts or numbers in a short amount of time? Watch the video ...
bout 1 year ago in January 2016, the two of us (Megan Smith and Yana Weinstein) started the Learning Scientists. As many projects do, it started out very small and is continuously evolving. Today, we want to take time to reflect on how we got started, how the ...
A few months ago, we published a piece in which we answered select reader questions. Here, we continue the series with 5 further questions.
Q1: Does retrieval practice also help ...
