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Do Collaborative Projects Reduce or Increase Working Memory Stress?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Should teachers ask students to work on projects in teams?...

Praising Researchers, Despite Our Disagreements
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

This blog often critiques the hype around "brain training." Whether...

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

Where is your mobile phone right now?  How much time...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Too often, teachers hear that our judgment about classroom applications...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

My friend Cindy Nebel has a thoughtful post about a...

Good News! Contradictory Research on Desirable Difficulties…
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

As we regularly emphasize here on the blog, attempts to...

Is Your Classroom Worth More Than $10,000?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Here's a remarkable story about potentially falsified research data. The...

Healthy Snacks After Exercise? Depends on the Timing…
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

We're likelier to make good snack choices before we exercise...

Welcome to San Francisco
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

If you're a regular blog reader, you just might be...

There’s No Polite Way to Say “I Told You So”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Back in 2014, Pam Mueller and Dan Oppenheimer made headlines...

Can Creativity Be Taught? What’s the Formula?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

My edutwitter feed has a lively debate about this question:...

Why Do Teachers Resist Research? And, Why Should We?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Let’s imagine that you show me research suggesting that students...

Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

We often post about the unreliability of "brain training." Heck,...

The Joys (and Stresses) of Teacher/Neuroscientist Collaboration
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

In an ideal world, teachers and researchers collaborate to bring...

Two Swings, Two Misses: The New York Times on Education
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Two recent articles in the New York Times have gotten...

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