Smartphones have a lot of advantages and they can make our lives easier…. However, as with most things, it can lead to problems in excess. Excessive smartphone use is linked to depression, anxiety, and poor sleep quality (1)…
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Digest #161: Guide to Effective Presentations
This week I was having a conversation about how learning science could make conversations with coaches and players more effective. Today I’m scouring the internet and providing you with a few resources that utilize the learning science principles we advocate to talk about effective presentations of material.
Pedagogy vs. Andragogy: What's the Difference?
“Do adults learn differently?” This has been a fundamental question that I have been asked time and time again. Much of what we know about learning and memory comes from research on students To generalize from these studies to someone mid-career… is that reasonable?
Let It Go: The Benefits of Mind Wandering
We live in a world full of distractions. I’ve written previously about the benefits of meditation for attentional focus and learning, we’ve provided tips for students on how to ignore irrelevant information while studying, and provided resources for how to reduce mind-wandering. And while it is important that we be able to focus when we need to, I want to reassure all the daydreamers out there that letting your mind wander every now and then can actually be really beneficial.
To Revise Your First Answer On A Multiple-Choice Test, Or Not, That Is The Question
Imagine you are taking a multiple-choice test with a range of different questions on it. You go from one question to the next and answer them as well as possible. As you answer each question, you may feel more or less confident about whether you answered a question correctly. Now, before submitting your final answers you have two options…
Expanding Retrieval Practice for Preschoolers
Today’s post features a set of experiments conducted by Catherine Fritz and colleagues (1) with preschool children. We have actually cited this paper a few times on our blog, when we covered why the spacing effect has failed to make it into mainstream practice (Part 1, Part 2), and when I wrote about whether retrieval practice …