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 ...
How do you present visuals such as diagrams, charts, or graphs to your students? Perhaps you follow the contemporary approach by displaying a diagram on a PowerPoint slide and explaining what's shown on the slide. Or maybe you prefer the "old-school" ...
Steve Jobs once said: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because ...
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 ...
My school has started implementing a whole school approach to learning, based on what cognitive science suggests might be successful strategies. I’ve been working with colleagues on a set of ‘Principles for Learning’ that give teachers and students ...
Many of us in education are avid writers – or at least we’re trying really hard to keep up with that status. We’re writing blog posts, books, articles for the popular press, research summaries for colleagues, research articles for journals, and the list goes on. ...
