Yearly Archives: 2017

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Chocolate and Cocoa Help You Learn, Right?

What’s not to love? The photo shows a mug of cocoa, with an already-nibbled chocolate bar…



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Memory Training That Really (Sort of) Works

Imagine yourself following a route that you know quite well: perhaps your morning commute. You…



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Bold Moves for Schools: How We Create Remarkable Learning Environments...

Today’s learners have different needs than those of yesterday. Educators and policy makers, therefore, need…



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Interrupting Skilled Students

Here’s a sentence that won’t surprise you: practice typically makes us more skilled at the…



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A Tale of Two Analyses

For researchers and research-readers alike, the data analysis portion of a study is many things:…



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Dangerous Authenticity?

Here’s an odd question: is it ever a bad idea for teachers to be authentic?…



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Regions or Networks, Take 2

Just yesterday, I posted some thoughts about “thinking both-ily”; that is, understanding that brain processing…



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Brain Regions or Brain Networks?

Here’s an odd brain theory to start off your day: Let’s assume that particular regions…



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Video Games and Empathy

Do violent video games reduce empathy? If people spend lots of time pretending to beat…



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This is Your Chess on Ritalin

In movies and on television, chess skill symbolizes “pure intelligence.” Characters who can outwit others…



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