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(How) Do Emotions Affect Learning?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When a conference speaker announces that "a student's emotions matter...

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI by Ethan Mollick
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

The first time I caught a student using ChatGPT to...

Book Review: Primary Reading Simplified, by Christopher Such
Guest Post

Today's guest book review is by Kim Lockhart. Finding a...

How to Present at a Conference…
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

I spend most of my professional life talking in front...

Do *Goals* Motivate Students? How about *Feedback*?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Motivation has been a HOT TOPIC this year in all...

Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching by Zach Groshell
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

The sage-on-the-stage is not the enemy. For years, educators have...

Attention Must Be Paid
Guest Blogger

This guest review of Blake Harvard's Do I Have Your Attention...

Enjoyment or Skill? The Case of Reading
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Do we want our students to ENJOY math, or to...

Still Doubting My Doubts: The Case of PBL
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Last week, I described my enduring concerns about "embodied cognition." I'm...

Doubting My Doubts; The Case of Gesture and Embodied Cognition
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The more time I spend hearing "research-informed educational advice," the...

Teaching & Learning Illuminated by Bradley Busch, Edward Watson, & Ludmila Bogatchek
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

From The Science of Learning, Bradley Busch, Edward Watson, and...

Revisiting the “Handwriting vs. Laptops” Debate: More Moving Goalposts
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

I don't often repost articles, but I think this one...

Goals, Failure, and Emotions: a Conceptual Framework
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Researchers can provide guidance to teachers by looking at specific...

“Learning from Mistakes” vs. “Learning from Explanations”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

As I wrote last week, thinkers in edu-world often make...

“All People Learn the Same Way”: Exploring a Debate
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Over on eX/Twitter, a debate has been raging -- with...

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