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Helping Students Study Well: The Missing Plank in the Bridge?
Ok: you’ve taught your students a particular topic, and you’ve provided them with lots of…
How to Lie with Graphs
A handy video from Ted Education gives some pointers on spotting misleading graphs. Pay close…
“One Size Fits All” Rarely Fits
If you attend Learning and the Brain conferences, or read this blog regularly, you know…
Rates of ADHD Diagnosis: Age, Gender, and Race
Dr. David Rabiner offers a helpful summary of trends in ADHD diagnoses. The short version:…
Chocolate and Cocoa Help You Learn, Right?
What’s not to love? The photo shows a mug of cocoa, with an already-nibbled chocolate bar…
Memory Training That Really (Sort of) Works
Imagine yourself following a route that you know quite well: perhaps your morning commute. You…
Interrupting Skilled Students
Here’s a sentence that won’t surprise you: practice typically makes us more skilled at the…
A Tale of Two Analyses
For researchers and research-readers alike, the data analysis portion of a study is many things:…
Dangerous Authenticity?
Here’s an odd question: is it ever a bad idea for teachers to be authentic?…
Regions or Networks, Take 2
Just yesterday, I posted some thoughts about “thinking both-ily”; that is, understanding that brain processing…