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Jul 19

Jul 19 Retrieval Practice: Hiding Broccoli in the Brownies

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Parents

In college, one of my roommates really liked the cookbook Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food. The cookbook is full of dessert recipes with purred vegetables in it, and my roommate joked that she was going to bake brownies with …

Jul 12

Jul 12 Learning from Escape Rooms

Althea Need Kaminske

For Teachers, Learning Scientists Posts

Escape rooms have become increasingly popular over the last decade.... The interactive format and team based problem solving has made escape rooms popular with teachers as well.

Jul 5

Jul 5 Optimizing Your Learning Schedule

Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students

One of the most effective learning strategies is spaced practice – the distribution of study time across multiple smaller study sessions. This learning strategy dates back to Hermann Ebbinghaus in 1885 who conducted the first systematic investigations of spaced practice with himself as a participant…

Jun 28

Jun 28 Using Retrieval Practice for Transfer in an Online Class

Cindy Nebel

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Retrieval practice produces benefits to learning in many different situations, but trying to get students to transfer their knowledge to a new situation is tricky business. There is some evidence that retrieval practice can be used to get students to think more deeply…

Jun 22

Jun 22 Learning Strategies Promoted by Academic Support Centers

Yana Weinstein

Learning Scientists Posts, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, For Researchers

Did you know we had a Learning Scientists Q&A group on Facebook? Members of this group are teachers, parents, students, and others interested in education from all over the world.

Jun 14

Jun 14 The Art and Science of Memory Part 2

Althea Need Kaminske

Learning Scientists Posts, For Parents, For Students, For Teachers, For Researchers

This post continues from a post I did last week discussing whether there is a difference between memory and learning and a difference in learning in the Arts and Sciences.