Tags
ADHD adolescence attention autism book review boundary conditions classroom advice conference speakers constructivism/direct instruction creativity desirable difficulty development dual coding elementary school embodied cognition emotion evolution exercise experts and novices gender high school homework intelligence long-term memory math methodology middle school mind-wandering mindfulness Mindset motivation neuromyths neuroscience online learning parents psychology reading retrieval practice self-control skepticism sleep STEM stress technology working memoryRecent Comments
- Roberta on Seriously: What Motivates Teachers to Be Funny?
- Revisiting the "Handwriting vs. Laptops" Debate: More Moving Goalposts |Education & Teacher Conferences on Handwritten Notes or Laptop Notes: A Skeptic Converted?
- The Power Of A Growth Mindset: How Students Can Overcome Challenges - Sunshine Blessings on The Rise and Fall and Rise of Growth Mindset
- Goals, Failure, and Emotions: a Conceptual Framework |Education & Teacher Conferences on “Learning from Mistakes” vs. “Learning from Explanations”
- From Destruction to Rebuilding: Hope in Science’s Down Cycle on When Analogies Go Wrong: The Benefits of Stress?
ABOUT THE BLOG

Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
From the author of The Coddling of the American Mind, The Righteous Mind, and The…

Updating the Great Cold-Call Debate: Does Gender Matter?
Edu-Twitter predictably cycles through a number of debates; in recent weeks, the Great Cold-Call Debate…

Can students “catch” attention? Introducing “Attention Contagion”
Every teacher knows: students won’t learn much if they don’t pay attention. How can we…

Should Teachers Be Excited about “Neural Synchrony”?
This blog — and this company — exist to give good advice to everyone who…

Improving Multiple-Choice Questions: A Thought-Provoking Pause
Many teachers carry strong ambivalence about multiple-choice questions (handy abbreviation: MCQs). On the one hand,…

Insight into a Bright Mind by Nicole Tetreault
Insight into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Stories of Unique Thinking is a profoundly…

Just In Case: Improving Online Learning
We teachers benefit A LOT from research-based guidance, but we do have to acknowledge a few…

Graphic Disorganizers; or, When Should Teachers Decorate Handouts?
Teachers regularly face competing goals. For instance: On the one hand — obviously — we…

To Insta or Not to Insta: That Is the Memory...
Here in the US, we’re having something of a national debate about the benefits/harms of…

I Am a Doctrinaire Extremist; S/he Is a Thoughtful Moderate
I recently had an email exchange with an educational thinker and leader who has spent…
Posted in L&B Blog
Leave a comment