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How To Get Students To Stop Using Their Cellphones In Class
NPR: Our Ideas series is exploring how innovation happens in education. Almost all college students have a cellphone. They use them an average of eight to 10 hours a day and check them an average
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Scientists say this ridiculously simple strategy can help you learn anything
Business Insider: Testing yourself on the material you’re trying to learn is more effective than studying and re-studying that material. In his book “Fluent Forever,” opera singer Gabriel Wyner suggests that one of the best
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Math Anxiety Doesn’t Equal Poor Math Performance
Experiencing math anxiety — nervousness and discomfort in relation to math — impairs math performance for some students, but new research shows that it’s linked with improved performance for others, at least to a degree.
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Can You Get Smarter?
The New York Times: YOU can increase the size of your muscles by pumping iron and improve your stamina with aerobic training. Can you get smarter by exercising — or altering — your brain? This
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Anxious About Math? Count an Elephant’s Toenails
Science Friday: A new study in the journal Science finds that an iPad app that prompts parents and kids to solve nightly number problems together greatly improves student achievement in math. The app, Bedtime Math (featured
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Homework: A New User’s Guide
NPR: If you made it past the headline, you’re likely a student, concerned parent, teacher or, like me, a nerd nostalgist who enjoys basking in the distant glow of Homework Triumphs Past (second-grade report on
