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Physics and Engineering: My New Year’s Resolution

  Over on Twitter, @DylanWilliam wrote: “[P]hysics tells you about the properties of materials but…

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New Research: Personal Best Goals (Might) Boost Learning

Some research-based suggestions for teaching require a lot of complex changes. (If you want to…

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Bit by Bit, Putting It Together

Over at Teacherhead, Tom Sherrington has posted a form that teachers can use for lesson plans….

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New Year, New Habits: More Learning!

When the school year starts back up in January, teachers would LOVE to use this…

A Festive Holiday Present for You

We don’t focus a lot on seasonal cues here at the blog, but… Given that…

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Escaping the “Inquiry vs. Direct Instruction” Debate

If you’d like to stir up a feisty argument at your next faculty meeting, lob…

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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World...

How often do you read in a deep and sustained way fully immersed, even transformed,…

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Unambiguously Good News about Teens and Sleep

You read that right. I mean: it’s really good news about teens and sleep. We all…

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When Multitasking Helps (And Why Teachers Should Discourage It Anyway)

We all know that multitasking is baaaaad. In fact, we all know that multitasking doesn’t…