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This Is Your Amygdala on a Cliff…
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

If you've seen the documentary Free Solo, you know about Alex...

Ask a Simple Question, Get an Oversimplified Answer
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Handwritten notes might help students who review them, but laptop...

Evaluating the Best Classroom Practices for Teaching Math
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Analyzing TIMSS data, researchers draw tentative conclusions about math teaching:...

Does Media Multitasking Really Interfere with Student Thinking?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

To many teachers, it just seems obvious: all that screen...

Avoiding Extremes: Common Sense in the Middle
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Teachers feel passionate about our work. As a result, we...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Here on the blog, I write A LOT about the...

Life Without Memory: Your Hippocampus and You
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Who are you without your memory? In neurobiological lingo: who...

Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Neil Selwin argues, dramatically, that "EdTech is Killing Us All."...

Can Quiet Cognitive Breaks Help You Learn?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

A 10-minute cognitive break improves our memory for story details....

T/F: Timed Tests Cause Math Anxiety?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Questions about math and anxiety have been on the uptick...

How to Stop Cheating: An Awkward Debate
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Despite promising early research, current findings suggest that "moral reminders"...

The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-between by Abigail Marsh
Rebecca Gotlieb
Rebecca Gotlieb

Abigail Marsh’s 2017 book , reviews research by her and...

Using and Misusing Averages: The Benefits of Music?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The "10 Minute Rule" tells us that people can't pay...

Live Theater Boosts Student Knowledge and Tolerance
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Question: What's the most potentially misleading kind of research? Answer:...

Teenagers, Hormones, and Other Stubborn Myths
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

There's a short video about adolescence making the rounds on...

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