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Time Management & Study Skills For Students One of the biggest challenges with learning is to get organised and to stick with a healthy study routine. It is easy to feel overwhelmed. In Level 2 Psychology we introduced Time Management & Study S

I have recently updated my "Time Management and Study Skills For Students" resource. It comes with slides for teaching and activities for students. Feel free to browse and use: sway.cloud.microsoft/BysO9ChOrHMQ...

Time Management & Study Skills For Students One of the biggest challenges with learning is to get organised and to stick with a healthy study routine. It is easy to feel overwhelmed. In Level 2 Psychology we introduced Time Management & Study S

sway.cloud.microsoft/BysO9ChOrHMQ... - this from @drckt.bsky.social might help #AcademicSky folks. Some great resources. As Caroline says, it's easy to be overwhelmed and links to tonight's #LTHEChat

Episode 93: Compassion Fatigue in Educators with Dr Chiara Horlin — The Learning Scientists This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page . Show Notes: In Episode...

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! Episode 93: Compassion Fatigue in Educators with Dr Chiara Horlin

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I wrote about ADHD in adults this week for The Learning Scientists! I've been thinking about this a lot lately as the standard advice we give to medical students is often counterproductive for ADHD.

PAPER PUBLISHED: I worked on this project during my postdoc at WashU St. Louis in 2014. Our lab contributed to this Memrise competition to test the best way to study foreign vocabulary and we were one of the finalists. Kudos to Rosalind Potts for leading on this.
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Adult Learners with ADHD — The Learning Scientists As of last October, the CDC estimates that approximately 1 in 16 adults in the United States have been diagnosed with ADHD (1). Despite the high prevalence of ADHD in adults, there are few resources f...

NEW BLOG: "Adult Learners with ADHD" by @drkaminske.bsky.social
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Wondering about the application in math…

GUEST POST: The Motivation Cheat Code: Sidestep Willpower Using Science — The Learning Scientists Got a million things to do but, zero motivation to start? We’ve all been there, one task turns into ten and suddenly things become overwhelming very quickly. In this blog, I use the latest science to ...

NEW GUEST POST: "The Motivation Cheat Code: Sidestep Willpower Using Science" by Annabel Noble
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GUEST POST: What 130,000 Student Questions to AI Reveal About Critical Thinking — The Learning Scientists The conversation around generative AI in education is often dominated by a sense of apprehension. Will these powerful new tools encourage students to take shortcuts, offload their thinking, and sidest...

NEW GUEST POST: "What 130,000 Student Questions to AI Reveal About Critical Thinking" by Dr Muireann Hendriksen
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Interleaving Is Less Effective When Taking Notes — The Learning Scientists The study I’m reviewing today took place in the laboratory, but examined a common situation in the classroom that might matter: note-taking. If students are able to take notes while learning, does tha...

BLOG: "Interleaving Is Less Effective When Taking Notes" by @drcindynebel.bsky.social
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Cognitive Networks: Exposure Matters — The Learning Scientists In my last blog, I wrote about cognitive networks and implicit bias . The gist of the post was that our systems allow us to categorize and generalize, flexibly and automatically, and that this genera...

BLOG: "Cognitive Networks: Exposure Matters" by @drsumeracki.bsky.social
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Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions — The Learning Scientists Cover image by u_9p7tw4noz0 from Pixabay By Althea Need Kaminske Note: The following describes Health Professions Education within the U.S. As a learning scientist interested in how ...

BLOG: "Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions" by @drkaminske.bsky.social
www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/8/7

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For all that there are effective ways to study, many students would rather stick to what they’ve always done. From @learningscientists.bsky.social, how can they be convinced to used evidenced-based strategies? buff.ly/CChVpfb #AmademicSky

Digest #181: Popular Learning Scientists Posts — The Learning Scientists If you, like me, have wondered, “What are people reading on our blog this summer?” then wonder no more! I looked through our most visited pages from the beginning of June until now to see what people ...

Si, comme @drkaminske.bsky.social, vous vous êtes demandé : « Que liront les gens sur le #blog @learningscientists.bsky.social cet été ? », ne vous posez plus la question ! Voici les 5 meilleures #lectures !
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Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies? — The Learning Scientists I’m currently preparing teaching for the upcoming academic year. One focus for me has been student self-regulated learning and time management skills. So, as I’m developing resources for students and...

Comment enseigner et convaincre les #étudiants d'utiliser des #stratégies plus efficaces. Une étude de Maurer et Cabay a examiné cette question en utilisant une intervention en classe et une combinaison de méthodes.
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Retrieval Practice in the Health Professions — The Learning Scientists Cover image by u_9p7tw4noz0 from Pixabay By Althea Need Kaminske Note: The following describes Health Professions Education within the U.S. As a learning scientist interested in how ...

La pratique de la récupération offre un bénéfice si évident en termes d' #apprentissage et de rétention qu'il est logique que les professions de #santé la trouvent extrêmement utile.
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Great suggestions from others - some additional favs

For students:
Ace That Test: A Student’s Guide to Learning Better and Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide both @learningscientists.bsky.social
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Brown, Roediger & McDaniel 1/

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“What truly excited us, however, was the proportion of questions that went deeper.” On @learningscientists.bsky.social, read an analysis of how students interacted with AI to not only define, but examine ideas from introductory biology through a textbook chatbot. buff.ly/TWSDT3t #AcademicSky

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Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies? — The Learning Scientists I’m currently preparing teaching for the upcoming academic year. One focus for me has been student self-regulated learning and time management skills. So, as I’m developing resources for students and...

NEW POST: "Reblog: How To Convince Students To Use Effective Study Strategies?" by @drckt.bsky.social

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Digest #181: Popular Learning Scientists Posts — The Learning Scientists If you, like me, have wondered, “What are people reading on our blog this summer?” then wonder no more! I looked through our most visited pages from the beginning of June until now to see what people ...

NEW POST: "Digest #181: Popular Learning Scientists Posts" by @drkaminske.bsky.social

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Digest #181: Popular Learning Scientists Posts — The Learning Scientists If you, like me, have wondered, “What are people reading on our blog this summer?” then wonder no more! I looked through our most visited pages from the beginning of June until now to see what people ...

NEW POST: "Digest #181: Popular Learning Scientists Posts" by @drkaminske.bsky.social

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Flipped Classrooms: Can We Skip the Lecture? — The Learning Scientists While we have our own internal and correlational data that allows me to cautiously allow students to skip the lecture, here we have experimental data that actually says skipping the lecture might be ...

NEW POST: "Flipped Classrooms: Can We Skip the Lecture?" by @drcindynebel.bsky.social

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Cognitive Networks and Implicit Bias — The Learning Scientists As a cognitive psychology professor, I teach about cognitive networks and how we process, organize, and respond to the world around us. We are able to quickly and flexibly process and categorize items...

NEW POST: "Cognitive Networks and Implicit Bias" by @drsumeracki.bsky.social

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AI and Adolescent Well-Being: New APA Health Advisory — The Learning Scientists With Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications expanding rapidly into daily life, The American Psychological Association (APA) has issued a health advisory on the impacts of AI on adolescent well-bei...

NEW POST: "AI and Adolescent Well-Being: New APA Health Advisory" by @drkaminske.bsky.social

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Opinion piece for @evidencebased.education: "Implementing Improvement Initiatives: Evidence-based, learner-centred, and workload-aware". Take aways:

💡 make it complement current practice
💡 it serves a purpose & solves a problem
💡 obtain peer & student feedback

schoolimprovementhub.org/resources/

CALL FOR SPEAKERS!
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Digest #180: Marking Rubrics in Education — The Learning Scientists 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 presentati...

Pour ce guide, @drckt.bsky.social a rassemblé quelques #ressources qui peuvent faciliter l'utilisation des grilles d' #évaluation dans notre #enseignement.
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AI and Adolescent Well-Being: New APA Health Advisory — The Learning Scientists With Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications expanding rapidly into daily life, The American Psychological Association (APA) has issued a health advisory on the impacts of AI on adolescent well-bei...

Face à l'essor rapide des applications de l' #intelligenceartificielle ( #IA) dans la vie quotidienne, l'American Psychological Association ( #APA) a publié un avis de #santé sur les impacts de l'IA sur le #bienêtre des #adolescents.
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Cognitive Networks and Implicit Bias — The Learning Scientists As a cognitive psychology professor, I teach about cognitive networks and how we process, organize, and respond to the world around us. We are able to quickly and flexibly process and categorize items...

Il est inutile de nier que des #préjugés implicites existent en chacun de nous. Et ils ne disparaîtront pas ! La meilleure façon de les combattre est de les reconnaître et de prendre le temps de les corriger lorsqu'ils apparaissent.
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