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Seriously: What Motivates Teachers to Be Funny?
To start 2021 in the right spirit, let’s think about humor in the classroom. It…
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The Best Teaching Advice We’ve Got
You want to improve your teaching with psychology research? We’ve got good news, and bad…
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James Flynn Changed the Way We Think about Intelligence
In 1950, the average score on an IQ test was ~100. In 2020, the average score…
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December Book-a-Palooza
When I started in this field, back in 2008, teachers really didn’t have many helpful…
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How Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What...
Bridging the research-practice divide is a perennial issue in education. Fortunately, Paul A. Kirschner and…
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Possible Selves in STEM: Helping Students See Themselves as Scientists
Why don’t more students sign up for STEM classes, and enter STEM careers? Could we…
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Two New Ways of Thinking About Memory
In our classroom work, we teachers focus on learning; in their research, psychologists and neuroscientists often…