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- Understanding Test Anxiety on Test Anxiety: How and When Does It Harm Students?
- A Skeptic Converted? The Benefits of Narrative |Education & Teacher Conferences on Help Me Understand: Narrative Is Better than Exposition
- Debate #4- Cell phones be banned from the classroom. | Aradhana's blog – ECI830 on Cell Phones in the Classroom: Expected (and Unexpected) Effects
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Monthly Archives: March 2018
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STOP THE PRESSES: New Evidence Against Adult Neurogenesis
For years, neuroscientists believed that neural growth ended in childhood. In the 1960s, however, researchers found that adults could grow new neurons: an event called “adult neurogenesis.” As of this morning, this new orthodoxy might be switching back to the old one. Continue reading
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Omega 3 Fish Oil Doesn’t Help, but Research Does
Contrary to their previous research, this team in Britain finds that Omega 3 fish oil doesn’t help students’ behavior or academic performance. These results are disappointing, but their willingness to double check their work this way is admirable. Continue reading
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Despite the Skeptics, a Champion of Direct Instruction
In the debates between “progressive” and “traditional” educational theories, few arguments rage hotter than the…