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Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Congratulations to one-time Learning and the Brain blogger, Dr. Kate...

How Best to Achieve our New Year’s Resolutions
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Psychology research can help us accomplish our New Year's resolutions,...

The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux
Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

New York University Professor and National Academy of Sciences member...

“Educating Anxious Brains”: Digging Deeper
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

I wrote two weeks ago about our first 2020 education...

Battles Worth Fighting: “What the Academy Taught Us”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

A recent book on changing school systems offers valuable advice...

How to Find Happiness
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

At this time of year, we can easily get distracted...

A Holiday Present for the Teacher/Skeptic (in Beta)
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

A new website helps us confirm -- or disconfirm --...

Understanding (False) Learning Styles Beliefs
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When people say they "believe in learning styles," what exactly...

Introducing Our 2020 Education Conferences
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The first of our 2020 education conferences will focus on...

Balancing Direct Instruction with Project-Based Pedagogies
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Tom Sherrington's essay on direct instruction and project-based pedagogies is...

Dangerous Fluency: Performance Isn’t Always Learning
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Cognitive science research helps teachers understand learning better than our...

A Hidden Strength of “Concreteness Fading”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Upbeat, perky brand names for teaching methods distract from sensible...

Concrete + Abstract = Math Learning
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Should math instruction focus on concrete examples (frog puppets and...

When Good Classroom Assignments Go Bad
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Classroom assignments often sound like great ideas, until they crash...

Can Multiple-Choice Tests Really Help Students?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Surprise: a well-designed multiple choice question might in fact help...

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