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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!
We're planning our TILE Network speaker series for 25-26 and are looking for inspiring speakers from diverse disciplines to share their insights on pressing topics in education. We feature research and best practice talks. (Self-)nomination form here: forms.office.com/e/X6TC36HGR5

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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Interleaving — The Learning Scientists Here to help you learn more!

Need an example of interleaving? This page from @learningScientists.bsky.social provides several! buff.ly/2UMexOj #EduSky

Last year I was on the verge of burning out. This year I delivered a plenary at the IATEFL conference. The moment I stepped on that stage I knew this was special, this was what I love doing: communicate the science of learning to a large audience. The article captures my academic identity very well.

Imitation versus Retrieval Practice in Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning — The Learning Scientists 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...

NEW POST: "Imitation versus Retrieval Practice in Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning" by @drckt.bsky.social

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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...

NEW POST: "Digest #180: Marking Rubrics in Education" by @drckt.bsky.social

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The Science of Motivation — The Learning Scientists 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 i...

NEW POST: "The Science of Motivation" @drcindynebel.bsky.social

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Dual Coding and Cognitive Load — The Learning Scientists 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...

NEW POST: "Dual Coding and Cognitive Load" by @drsumeracki.bsky.social

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Episode 90: Dual Coding-Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing? — 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...

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Mood and Memory — The Learning Scientists 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 le...

NEW POST: "Mood and Memory" by @drkaminske.bsky.social

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Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice — The Learning Scientists Today I review a series of experiments that extends previous research by having students provide justifications for their MC answers. As in other techniques for retrieval, answer justification has the...

Il a été démontré que des #QCM bien rédigés peuvent offrir des avantages en termes de récupération, comparables à ceux des QCM à réponses courtes.
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We love a collaboration between our School and the Learning Scientist. Go have a read at an applied neuroscience perspective of stress and its impact on learning!

OpRaise: Opportunities and Potential Risks of AI in Supporting Evaluation As AI continues to advance, concerns are growing about its impact on traditional grading systems across the HE sector. AI models are now capable of writing essays and providing detailed feedback that ...

As part of the Advisory Board for "OpRaise: Opportunities and Potential Risks of AI in Supporting Evaluation", we had a thought-provoking meeting today. Looking forward to future meetings. Whether I'm looking forward to the world that awaits education: Not sure.
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GUEST POST: A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress — The Learning Scientists 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) –...

NEW GUEST POST: "A Neuroscientific Perspective on Understanding and Managing Stress" by Dr Julie-Myrtille Bourgognon @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social

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Digest #179: Combating Summer Learning Loss — The Learning Scientists For those of us in North America, summer is coming! Whether you have two weeks or almost two months left, the warmer weather and growing plants are a regular reminder that we’re getting closer every d...

Digest #179: Combating Summer Learning Loss

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While multiple-choice quizzes sometimes carry a “low-effort” reputation, this post suggests ways to improve multiple-choice assessment by connecting it with retrieval practice. (via @learningscientists.bsky.social) buff.ly/fLclNPQ #EduSky #AcademicSky

Notetaking Formats — The Learning Scientists One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that ...

L'une des métaphores les plus courantes pour décrire les premières années de #médecine est celle-ci : c'est comme boire de l'eau à la lance à incendie.
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Come and join our conversation on the science of learning on the Teachers Talk Radio (@ttradioofficial.bsky.social) tomorrow, Sunday 27 April.
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Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice — The Learning Scientists Today I review a series of experiments that extends previous research by having students provide justifications for their MC answers. As in other techniques for retrieval, answer justification has the...

New Post: "Improving Multiple-Choice Retrieval Practice" by @drcindynebel.bsky.social

www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/4/...

Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, But Will it Help ALL of My Students? More Experimental Evidence — The Learning Scientists In the first year that our blog was created—2016—I wrote a piece titled, Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, but Will it Help ALL of my Students? In this piece, I covered an experiment conducted...

NEW POST: "Retrieval Practice Improves Learning, But Will it Help ALL of My Students? More Experimental Evidence" by @drsumeracki.bsky.social

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#TheScienceOfLearning an #IATEFL25 plenary. #KnowledgeBuilding & #CPD in #TESOL #LanguageEducation #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageTeaching #LanguageLearning #ESL #EAL #EAP #ESOL #MFL