A couple of months ago I have started re-learning French with a language learning app. I studied French in school for many years and was quite fluent in it at the end of my schooling. Unfortunately, I then stopped speaking or engaging in the language. Fast forward to today...
Delivering engaging and effective presentations is important when it comes to teaching or when presenting work at conferences. As teachers, we may want to help our students to develop their presentation skills…
Many educators struggle with student motivation and, often, it feels like something that is out of our hands. But there are things that we can do to support motivation in the classroom and to keep it going, even when Johnny would rather be anywhere but here.
In today’s blog, I’m covering an older paper by Mousavi, Low, and Sweller from 1995 (1) titled Reducing Cognitive Load by Mixing Auditory and Visual Presentation Modes. The goal of their paper was to experimentally test whether heavy cognitive overload could …
Our brains - that’s the part that does the thinking - are, for better or worse, part of our bodies .... As such there are a vast number of interconnected systems that affect us and our thinking and learning as we move throughout the day. Even your mood can affect your memory and your ability to perform well on an exam.
Stress significantly impacts university students, affecting their mental and physical health. There has been a constant rise of mental illnesses reports in UK Universities over the last decade (1) – linked to high academic demands, cost of living and other financial pressures, and social challenges…
