Digest #178: Boosting Presentation Skills
Cover image by Pavel Danilyuk from PexelsDelivering 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 and prepare them to become confident speakers. Today’s digest offers resources on boosting presentation skills. 10 Tips for…
Digest #184: Arts for Learning and Wellbeing in Education
Cover image by Kampus Production on PexelsBy Carolina Kuepper-TetzelRecently, I have become interested in the impact of engaging in art on learning and wellbeing. This interest has sent me into a rabbit hole of fascinating research and has sparked new ideas for my own teaching practice. In today’s digest, I’m sharing resources around this topic.…
Digest #175: Authentic Assessments
cover image by Skitterphoto on PexelsThe idea of authentic assessments has been around for over 30 years now. In 1990, Grant Wiggins coined the term ‘authentic assessment’ (1) and in recent years this assessment approach has received a considerable boost. The pandemic as well as the rise of AI in education have required educators to…
Digest #140: There’s an App for That
These days we are all extremely busy! So, we’ll keep it brief. Check out these resources to help you manage your workflow and stay productive. Since we know you’re busy, we’ll keep the descriptions to a minimum today and let the descriptive titles speak do most of the talking!
Digest #176: For When You’re Feeling the Pressure!
2) Yerkes-Dodson: Lore, not Law by Cindy Nebel and Stress and Memory by Althea Need KaminskeThis pair of posts is one of my favorites. We were taught that Yerkes-Dodson Law was, well, a law. When stress is too low or too high, performance suffers. Then Cindy discovered, not necessarily so. Friends, we were all blown…
Digest #180: Marking Rubrics in Education
Cover image by Tara Winstead from PexelsBy Carolina Kuepper-TetzelMarking rubrics for assessments can be a powerful tool to set marking expectations and criteria for an assessment and support students in understanding the feedback they receive. Rubrics are most effective if introduced to students from the start and integrated in activities focused on the assessment. I…
Digest #137: Lessons Learned From Learning Scientists Teacher Workshops
In the beginning of January, we were on tour in England to provide workshops to teachers. We enjoyed this opportunity tremendously because it gave us not only an opportunity to reach out to teachers and to disseminate knowledge about learning and teaching strategies from Cognitive Psychology, but also allowed us to learn what strategies teachers…
Digest #162: Teaching Water Safety
By Megan SumerackiWelcome to May! In many parts of the world, the pools have been open for a while, and in New England where I live, many neighbors will start opening their pools over Memorial Day Weekend at the end of the month. Water safety is not just about summer months (lakes even when frozen…
Digest #153: Neurodiversity in Education
By Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel and Chiara HorlinFor today’s digest I teamed up with Dr Chiara Horlin who is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Psychology at the University of Glasgow and an expert in neurodiversity and what role it plays in education. She has co-founded The Neurodiversity Network (see below) as a resource to support and represent…
Digest #147: Making Your Material Digitally Accessible
Dr Helena Paterson is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Glasgow. She is the Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Lead for the School of Psychology. Her expertise lies in digital education and her research is about children and adults’ perception of difference as it pertains so first impressions and person perception. Dr Paterson was…
