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The Best Kind of Practice for Students Depends on the...

In some ways, teaching ought to be straightforward. Teachers introduce new material (by some method…

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When Does Technology Distract Students? The Benefits of Research that...

I spoke with several hundred students last week about research-based study strategies. As always, students…

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Learning Science for Instructional Designers by Clark Quinn

Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application is a wonderful synthesis of the…

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Why I Still Love Learning and the Brain Conferences

I attended my first Learning and the Brain in 2008; I believe the topic was…

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Is “Cell Phone Addiction” Really a Thing?

I recently read a tweet asserting “the fact that cell phones are proven to be…

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Learning Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for all Students by...

In Learning Without Borders: New Learning Pathways for all Students, Yong Zhao outlines an ongoing…

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The Best Way to Take Class Notes

Teachers often ask me: “how should my students take notes?” That question typically springs from…

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What is “Mind, Brain, Education”? Defining the Undefinable…

Here at Learning and the Brain, we bring together psychology (the study of the MIND),…

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Changing the System: Where Do We Start?

I recently spent two hours talking with a group of splendid teachers from Singapore about…

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Understanding Adolescents: Emotion, Reason, and the Brain

Kurt Fischer — who helped create Learning and the Brain, and the entire field of…