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It’s All in the Timing: Improving Study Skills with Just-Right Reminders
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Some research-based teaching advice requires complex rethinking of our work....

An Amazingly Simple Way to Help Struggling Students (with Potential Controversy)
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Imagine that you work at a school where these students consistently...

The Power of Us by Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

The broad use of social media, internet search engines, personalized...

“It’s Good for the Brain!”: The Perils of Pollution, the Benefits of Blueberries
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When I talk with teachers about psychology and neuroscience research,...

Getting the Order Just Right: When to “Generate,” When to “Retrieve”?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When teachers get advice from psychology and neuroscience, we start...

The Bruce Willis Method: Catching Up Post-Covid
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

In the third Die Hard movie, Brue Willis and his unexpected...

Does a Teacher’s Enthusiasm Improve Learning?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Sometimes research confirms our prior beliefs. Sometimes it contradicts those...

When Analogies Go Wrong: The Benefits of Stress?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

An amazing discovery becomes an inspiring analogy: Researchers at BioSphere...

Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education is...

Handwritten Notes or Laptop Notes: A Skeptic Converted?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Here’s a practical question: should our students take notes by...

Too Good to Be True? “Even Short Nature Walks Improve Cognition”?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Good news makes me nervous. More precisely: if I want to...

Working Memory: Make it Bigger, or Use it Better?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Cognitive science has LOTS of good news for teachers. Can...

Learning How to Learn: Do Video Games Help?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Long-time readers know: I like research that surprises me. If...

The Art of Insubordination by Todd Kashdan
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively,...

Don’t Hate on Comic Sans; It Helps Dyslexic Readers (Asterisk)
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

People have surprising passions. Some friends regularly announce that the...

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