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Cell Phones in the Classroom: Expected (and Unexpected) Effects

Quick! Where’s your cell phone? Now that I’ve got your attention: what effect does the…



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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…



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Lightening the Cognitive Load

How should we manage working memory limitations in the classroom? Furtheredogogy has a handy post…



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Don’t Take the Bait

Some days I wonder if I have linked to too many articles debunking claims about…



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A Working Memory Intervention That “Really Works.” Really?

L&tB bloggers frequently write about working memory — and with good reason. This cognitive capacity, which…



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Skepticism Improves Innovation

Greg Ashman is enthusiastic about research, and yet skeptical about innovation. Ashman’s argument resonates with me…



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Classroom Note Taking: A Solution to the Technology Conundrum?

[Editor’s note: this guest blogger piece is by Cindy Gadziala, Chairperson of Theology at Fontbonne…



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It Ain’t What You Know, It’s…Oh, No, Sorry, It IS...

I sense that the tide is beginning to turn on the knowledge-versus-skills debate, ‘21st Century’…



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In the News

The controversy over famous patient Henry Molaison — a.k.a. H.M. — is #7 on the…



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