If you like to watch a video, watch the video. If you like to read, here’s the same information**: 1. Learning is a change to your long-term memory (LTM)1. This is key, and this is how learni…

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Forming a cornerstone of electromagnetism as one of the four Maxwell’s equations, Gauss’s law is typically introduced early in the second-semester introductory

Effort Feels Costly When the Brain Can't Detect Progress

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Helping students fuel their own motivation

If you would like to find out what cognitive science has to say about the best learning strategies to help your child learn, then here are some excellent places to start: 🧠 How do we learnAn introd…

I asked my students how they’d found the APC exam a few years ago and one student said: “It was fine. Question 1 was Billy squared and Question 3 was an easy Charlie”. What? Well,…

” Ok, fine. But what do you actually DO?” I get asked this a lot, so this page is for ‘THIS is what I do*’. I’ll put it in phases, where a ‘phase’ was abou…

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The development of intelligent tutoring systems and other educational technology necessitated the implementation and development of computational models of student learning. At the foundation of these...

When students are asked to reflect on their learning experiences, they often offer candid and thoughtful feedback. In a recent Study.com survey, we asked 100 students what they wish their teachers understood about their needs, challenges, and learning preferences.

The cognitive muscles we no longer exercise

Borges, Bjork, and the science of memory, forgetting and learning

Borges, Bjork, and the science of memory, forgetting and learning

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What are you doing? Let’s step back a moment. What’s the point?What are you trying to do?What is the goal that you want for your students? My goal is that the students ‘see it lik…

What are you doing? Let’s step back a moment. What’s the point?What are you trying to do?What is the goal that you want for your students? My goal is that the students ‘see it lik…