Learning and the Brain Blog
A guest post, by Rob McEntarffer I didn’t get to...
Why don’t students like school? Daniel T. Willingham, Professor of...
Once you say it out loud, it's so obvious: Teachers...
When teachers turn to brain research, we want to know: which...
Teachers have long gotten guidance that we should make our...
Cambridge University professor of psychology and psychiatry, Simon Baron-Cohen, recently...
Have you heard of "interteaching" before? Me neither. The headlines...
Few theories in education have had a more dramatic story...
Should teachers welcome students to the classroom with elaborate individual...
The "10-minute rule" offers teachers practical guidance. It typically sounds...
We've seen enough research on retrieval practice to know: it...
In our profession, memorization has gotten a bad name. The word...
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Researchers can demonstrate that some core knowledge is essential for...
Game on? Brain On!: The Surprising Relationship between Play and...