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CHATTER BY ETHAN CROSS
The founder and director of the Emotional and Self-Control Laboratory at the University of Michigan, Ethan Cross has been a leading voice in a field that is helping us understand the workings of the conscious mind and how understanding its
The Hidden Lives of Learners
Many times over the last several years, I’ve heard enthusiastic reviews of a seemingly-magical book called The Hidden Lives of Learners, by Graham Nuthall. Here’s the magic: Nuthall’s frankly astonishing research method. Working in New Zealand classrooms in the 1980s, he
To 600, and Beyond…
WordPress informs me that this is the 601st article I’ve posted on this blog. That’s a few hundred thousand words since 2015 or so. I’ve been honored over the years to meet so many of you who read this blog,
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My Detective Adventure: “VR Will Transform Education”
A friend recently sent me a link to an article with a click-baity headline: something like “Virtual Reality Will Change Education Forever.” Her pithy comment: “This is obviously nonsense.” (It’s possible she used a spicier word that ‘nonsense.’) On the
How Teachers Can Use Neuroscience in Education
I recently saw two very different looks at neuroscience and learning, and I thought they made a useful pairing for this blog. Here goes… Regular readers know that I’ve recently been exploring research into movement and learning. That is: