Wednesday, October 20, 2021

The Struggle Is Real: Productive Struggle

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Learning By Doing Let's get this party started with a fun little puzzle. You may have seen this on your favorite social media platform [...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Twenty Thousand Leagues: Depth of Processing

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Learning By Doing Without cheating, take a moment to scan the following matrix of pennies.  Which drawing represents the current design of a...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

How To Grow a Third Arm: Neuroplasticity, Synaptic Pruning, & Myelination

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Learning By Doing It's amazing —stunning, actually — how quickly the brain can adapt. A really wild example of the brain's adaptivit...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Making Tests (More) Fun Through Hints Increases Student Uptake Of Self-Testing

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LEARNING SCIENTISTS POSTS, FOR TEACHERS   Editorial Note:  I am extremely excited to share with you a cross-posting from a group of like-mi...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Minding the Gap: Connecting teachers and students to learning science

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Editorial Note. We are in for a real treat! We have a guest post by Josh Ling, the CEO and founder of Podsie. I'm a fan of  Podsie becau...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The Mind’s CEO: Executive Function

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Learning By Doing Let's play a game. It's super fun...I promise! Download and print  this file . Your goal is to cross out all of th...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Do or Do Not: The Doer Effect

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Learning By Doing Let's pretend you work for a software company, and your manager wants you to create a clickable prototype for an app y...