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Natural Selection: The Mentoring Edition
In today’s society they may be hidden, but good shepherds do exist. They nurture. They guide. They use their foresight to keep their flock safe and ensure its survival. As graduate students, we often find
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You Probably Believe Some Learning Myths: Take Our Quiz To Find Out
NPR: This blog post has some pretty useful information. So print it out; get out your highlighter and take off the cap. Ready? Now throw it away, because highlighters don’t really help people learn. We
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Thinking Strategically About Study Resources Boosts Students’ Final Grades
College students who reflected about how to best use classroom resources had higher final grades relative to their peers.
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Perception and Play: How Children View the World
The interactions among children’s brains, bodies, and surrounding environments have tremendous effects on how they learn to speak and identify specific items in their field of view. APS Fellow Linda B. Smith shares her groundbreaking methods for examining these processes.
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Radboud University Researchers Win First Memrise Prize
The online learning community Memrise, in collaboration with researchers at the University College London, announced a $10,000 prize to be awarded to the research team that developed the best system for quickly learning, and retaining, foreign language vocabulary words.
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How Attention ‘Deficits’ May Actually Benefit Kids
Forbes: Children’s attention has been the subject of a lot of discussion in the last few decades, and its “deficits” the cause of much frustration, contention and, in many cases, medication. A new study from
