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“Students Switch Their Screens Every 19 Seconds.” Sort Of…

I recently read an arresting claim: when students have web browsers open, they switch their…

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EduTwitter Can Be Great. No, Really…

Twitter has a terrible reputation, and EduTwitter isn’t an exception. The misinformation. The name-calling. The…

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How Can We Help Students Study Better?

This story might sound familiar: You attend a Learning and the Brain conference (like, say,…

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Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come...

The COVID-19 global pandemic has spurred a massive and rapid increase in online education. Although…

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Does Online Learning Work? Framing the Debate to Come…

With news that several very effective vaccines will be increasingly available over the upcoming months,…

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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…