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The Best Teaching Advice We’ve Got
I’m on my annual vacation during this month, so I’ll be posting some articles that…
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It’s All in the Timing: Improving Study Skills with Just-Right...
Some research-based teaching advice requires complex rethinking of our work. For instance: We know that…
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An Amazingly Simple Way to Help Struggling Students (with Potential...
Imagine that you work at a school where these students consistently struggle compared to those students. As…
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The Power of Us by Dominic Packer and Jay Van...
The broad use of social media, internet search engines, personalized news feeds, and other emerging…
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“It’s Good for the Brain!”: The Perils of Pollution, the...
When I talk with teachers about psychology and neuroscience research, I frequently get a question…
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Getting the Order Just Right: When to “Generate,” When to...
When teachers get advice from psychology and neuroscience, we start by getting individual bits of…
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The Bruce Willis Method: Catching Up Post-Covid
In the third Die Hard movie, Brue Willis and his unexpected partner Samuel L. Jackson need…
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Does a Teacher’s Enthusiasm Improve Learning?
Sometimes research confirms our prior beliefs. Sometimes it contradicts those beliefs. And sometimes, research adds…
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When Analogies Go Wrong: The Benefits of Stress?
An amazing discovery becomes an inspiring analogy: Researchers at BioSphere 2 noticed a bizarre series…
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Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education is a well-written critical synthesis of…