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Dec 22

Dec 22 Happy Holidays!

We are on vacation! The next blog post will be out on January 3rd 2017. In the meantime, here are a few updates and our most popular posts from 2016.

Dec 20

Dec 20 GUEST POST: Trusting Teacher: Children’s Evaluation of the Reliability of Informants

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

One of the most frustrating things that I experience in my day to day life is coming across people who have been exposed to misleading information and chose to take it at face value. As human beings, we are very trusting when it comes to receiving...

Dec 18

Dec 18 Weekly Digest #40: Teachers' Implementation of Principles from "Make It Stick"

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Digests

The book “Make It Stick” by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel was published in 2014 and since then has become a widely-accepted source for teachers who aim at improving their teaching and help their students learn better. In the book, ...

Dec 15

Dec 15 Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, but Will it Help ALL of my Students?

Megan Sumeracki

For Teachers, For Researchers, Learning Scientists Posts

Research has a lot to offer when it comes to effective ways to learn. As we have discussed before on the blog, we cannot just rely on our own intuitions about what produces learning (see this blog post for more on this topic). Therefore, as a teacher ...

Dec 13

Dec 13 GUEST POST: A Student Tries out the Six Strategies for Effective Learning

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Students

When first considering a quiz or an exam, many students don’t know how to approach studying. Should I start studying three days before the exam? Or should I just cram the day before? Should I make flashcards or just read the book? Take notes on my laptop or handwrite them? There are a lot of techniques and ways to study, but some are more ...

Dec 11

Dec 11 Weekly Digest #39: Writing Strategies for Students

Learning Scientists

For Students, For Teachers, Digests

There is nothing worse than writing that first paragraph of an essay. The crippling onset of writer’s block is inevitable, and can easily spiral into a circle of procrastination, until only one day remains before the essay is due. This is one of the many problems students ...