Here at The Learning Scientists we talk a lot about how to improve learning, particularly in schools. But what happens after graduation? How do you take the first steps from school to career? In this digest we’ve gathered several resources to help students think about future careers in teaching, psychology, and how to gain relevant work experience.
My abysmal ability to recall things sparked my fascination with memory…. The memory palace technique is used pretty commonly by memory athletes, people who compete in memory competitions. The memory palace technique is simply a metaphor for any well-known place you are able to visualize clearly in your head.
Reading from screens instead of paper has become increasingly more popular in recent years. There are a lot of advantages to reading from screens. It’s convenient as your reading material is easily accessible from multiple electronic devices…
Humor can have a powerful effect on people; research shows that when people find something funny, they tend to pay more attention to it, and remember it better in the long term (1, 2). Furthermore, humor has an invigorating effect, and can make people feel more interested in what’s going on, and …
One possible way that an educator may choose to incorporate retrieval practice into their classroom is to simply stop and ask questions throughout a traditional lecture. By asking students questions, they will all be in engaging in retrieval practice…
One of the talks introduced me to an interesting research question that is potentially applicable to authentic studying situations for students: When studying a text, should students pretend to explain the main ideas to someone, engage in retrieval practice, or does it not make a difference?
