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The Best Length of Time for a Class [Repost]
Quite consistently, this post has been among the most searched for and most popular on the blog. Teachers and administrators REALLY want to know: What is the optimal amount of time for our students to meet? What’s the very best
Where Should Students Study?
My teachers told me to study in the library. What does today’s research say? Continue reading
“How We Learn”: Wise Teaching Guidance from a Really Brainy Guy
How We Learn, by Stanislas Dehaene, offers a rich and fascinating look at human brains, their ways of learning, and the best ways to teach them. Continue reading
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Should Students Exercise DURING Learning? A Twitter Debate Rages…
Does exercise DURING learning help students? Twitter knows the answer to the question quite confidently. Research on the topic, however, invites us to be both cautious and optimistic. Continue reading
Does Music Training Help Us Pay Attention?
We can’t improve our students working memory. But, recent research from Chile suggests that music training might benefit one part of our attention system. Continue reading
Today’s Neuro-Nonsense: Reading Brainwaves in the Classroom
Live EEGs in the classroom just don’t work this way. Continue reading
Decorating the Classroom: How Much Is Too Much?
Teachers decorate classrooms for many reasons — especially to make students feel at home. Recent research, however, suggests that too much decoration distracts students’ attention an interferes with their memory. When it comes to classroom decoration, there can indeed be too much of a good thing. Continue reading
Overcoming Potential Perils of Online Learning
Typical at-home distractions can indeed interfere with online learning. Happily, researchers have suggestions on how best to mitigate these problems. Continue reading
A Handy Summary of Memory Definitions, for Teachers and Students
Here‘s a quick summary of information about memory: sensory memory, working memory, long-term memory, and (crucially!) forgetting. Author Steven Turner presents this brisk overview to combat “buzzword wasteland.” He fears the education-world habit of coming up with fancy new terms
Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me
We often post about the unreliability of “brain training.” Heck, even though I live in Boston and am a Patriots fan, I made fun of Tom Brady’s website claiming to “increase brain speed” and other such nonsense. (I don’t even