Learning Scientists Blog — The Learning Scientists

Jul 25

Jul 25 GUEST POST: Acing my Dressage Test: Cognitive Psychology at the Barn

For Researchers, For Teachers, For Students, For Parents, Guest Posts

When I’m not busy being a professor, I can be found at the barn with my nine year old Thoroughbred horse (Chance). Chance was bred to be a racehorse but he was too slow, so he opted for a career change.

Jul 17

Jul 17 GUEST POST: Transforming Students to Learners

Learning Scientists

Guest Posts, For Teachers, For Researchers

I think a lot about how to transform students to lifelong learners. It is not only a matter of being an effective educator; it is the right thing to do morally. The drive to help students become learners goes beyond the students enrolled in my classes.

Jul 11

Jul 11 GUEST POST: Using Knowledge Organizers as Effective Study Tools

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Guest Posts

I read with interest this blog post on six strategies for effective learning and immediately began to think about how knowledge organizers could be best utilized to encourage and explicitly model habitual use of these strategies in students’ revision.

Jul 3

Jul 3 GUEST POST: Phone Use

Learning Scientists

For Teachers, Guest Posts

You are in high school sitting in a school desk. Flimsy metal feet of the chair, which are connected to the desk, squeak on the floor. Your run your palms along a particleboard desktop.