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The Best Ways to Use ‘One-Pagers’
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

In recent years, our field has seen a great increase...

Piece-by-Piece PowerPoint: Exploring the “Dynamic Drawing Principle”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

The plan for this blog post: First: I'll describe a...

Research Advice That’s New + Useful: Improve Learning by Reappraising Emotions?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Research benefits teachers if it gives us new, useful ideas....

Change My Mind, Please!
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

When was the last time you changed your mind about...

Getting Bossy about Jigsaws; “Don’t Fence Us In”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Back in February, I wrote about the "Jigsaw method" of...

Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

From the author of The Coddling of the American Mind,...

Updating the Great Cold-Call Debate: Does Gender Matter?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Edu-Twitter predictably cycles through a number of debates; in recent...

Can students “catch” attention? Introducing “Attention Contagion”
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Every teacher knows: students won't learn much if they don't...

Should Teachers Be Excited about “Neural Synchrony”?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

This blog -- and this company -- exist to give...

Improving Multiple-Choice Questions: A Thought-Provoking Pause
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Many teachers carry strong ambivalence about multiple-choice questions (handy abbreviation:...

Insight into a Bright Mind by Nicole Tetreault
Erik Jahner, PhD
Erik Jahner, PhD

Insight into a Bright Mind: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Stories of...

Just In Case: Improving Online Learning
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

We teachers benefit A LOT from research-based guidance, but we...

Graphic Disorganizers; or, When Should Teachers Decorate Handouts?
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Teachers regularly face competing goals. For instance: On the one...

To Insta or Not to Insta: That Is the Memory Question
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

Here in the US, we're having something of a national...

I Am a Doctrinaire Extremist; S/he Is a Thoughtful Moderate
Andrew Watson
Andrew Watson

I recently had an email exchange with an educational thinker...

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