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My Detective Adventure: “VR Will Transform Education” [Reposted]

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: August 8, 2023

Our blogger is off this week. He asked us to repost this piece, because he’ll…

Learning Styles Vector

The Unexpected Problem with Learning Styles Theory [Reposted]

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: August 1, 2023

Our blogger will be taking the first two weeks of August off. This post generated…

Open Classroom Plans: The Effects on Reading

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: July 23, 2023

I’ve written frequently over the years about the effects of classroom decoration on learning. The…

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Psych by Paul Bloom

Erik Jahner, PhD
by: Erik Jahner, PhD
Posted on: July 19, 2023

I should have known better! I was expecting just another in a long line of…

Group of middle-school children working with electrical equipment and an ipad

Learning How to Learn: Optimists and Realists

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: July 14, 2023

In schools, optimism helps teachers a lot. At the beginning of the year, my students…

Introducing “Schema Theory”

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: July 9, 2023

In the last few years, I’ve increasingly wondered if “schema theory” just might work a…

Students talking with each other around a table

Should students “teach” other students?

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: July 1, 2023

You will often hear about an exciting strategy to help students learn: they should teach one another….

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How Teaching Happens by Paul Paul Kirschner, Carl Hendrick, and...

Erik Jahner, PhD
by: Erik Jahner, PhD
Posted on: June 26, 2023

Who would have thought that a book about teaching could begin with a discussion of…

Child sitting on a stool creates fantastic color patterns in the air

Oops, Twitter Did It Again: Creativity and the “Positive Manifold”

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 20, 2023

I’ve written before that edu-Twitter can be a great help to teachers. I myself regularly…

Middle aged preschool teacher having vocabulary lesson at kindergarten

Have I Been Spectacularly Wrong for Years, Part 2 [Removed...

Andrew Watson
by: Andrew Watson
Posted on: June 14, 2023

On Sunday of this week, I published my response to my interview with Dr. Morgan…