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Monthly Archives: September 2017
Neuroscience and Neuromyths
Does neuroscience education help reduce a teacher’s belief in neuromyths? According to this recent study:…
Parents, High School Start Times, and Sleepy Teens
Research findings that support later high-school start times have been more and more common in…
More Thoughts on Gender Differences
Regular readers of this blog know that I’m a skeptic about gender differences in learning….
Decisions, Decisions: Helping Students with Complex Reasoning
Most of us have heard the adage about the two ways that someone can get…
The Effect of Alcohol on Learning…
…might not be what you’d expect. My prediction would have been that if I have…
Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change by Wilma Koutstaal...
How can creativity and innovation give rise to positive changes in ourselves and the world…
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Criticizing Critical Thinking
Over at Newsweek, Alexander Nazaryan wants to vex you. Here’s a sample: Only someone who…
Lighten the Load
You’d like an 8 page summary of Cognitive Load Theory, written in plain English for…
How Best to Count
Should young children count on their fingers when learning math? You can find strong opinions…
Resources for “Desirable Difficulties”
Here on the blog, we write a lot about desirable difficulties: that elusive middle ground…