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Yearly Archives: 2019
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The Best (Counter-intuitive) Sleep Advice You’ll Get This Year
How to fall asleep faster? According to this research, take 5 minutes a write a to-do list for the upcoming days. This technique offloads stress, and promotes faster sleep onset. Continue reading
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Studying Wrong Answers Helps Learn the Right Ones
With teaching as with baking, sometimes you should follow steps in a very particular order….
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How Can We Encourage Girls to Pursue STEM Disciplines?
When we see alarming statistics about gender disparities in STEM disciplines, we quite naturally wonder…
PEERSĀ® for Young Adults: Social Skills Training for Adults With...
Young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) typically want social relationships but have trouble building…
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Can We Boost Our Students’ Self-Control?
You have, no doubt, heard about this research before. Walter Mischel tested preschoolers on self-control….
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A Handy Summary of Memory Definitions, for Teachers and Students
Here‘s a quick summary of information about memory: sensory memory, working memory, long-term memory, and…
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Does Music Promote Students’ Creativity?
Music played during a creative task distracts students…but, music played before the task might increase creativity. Continue reading
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Taking Notes with Graphic Organizers
Researchers office us concrete advice on the best form for handwritten notes: outlines vs. graphic organizers; incomplete vs. complete. Continue reading
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Do Collaborative Projects Reduce or Increase Working Memory Stress?
Should teachers ask students to work on projects in teams? This question generates a great…
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Praising Researchers, Despite Our Disagreements
This blog often critiques the hype around “brain training.” Whether Lumosity or Tom Brady‘s “brain…