GUEST POST: When the Body Enters the Classroom: Using Embodied Cognition to Teach Abstract...
Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez is a philosopher, cognitive scientist, and educator with extensive experience in teaching and educational development. He has taught philosophy, ethics, bioethics, critical writing, and philosophy of artificial intelligence at different educational levels, and has worked in educational leaderships, teacher training, and the design and implementation of educational programmes. His research lies at the…
Varying Retrieval Practice to Promote Transfer of Learning: A Set of Experiments
During the learning phase in Experiment 1, undergraduate students watched video clips about science topics and then answered application questions from their memories. The experiment had two simple conditions: In the “same” condition, for each concept the students answered questions requiring them to apply the concept to the same example three times. In the “variable”…
GUEST POST: Fostering Moxie at the Mic
Throughout high school, I attended a lock-in at my high school for “Snowball.” I’m not sure if this exists outside of my corner of the Midwest, but my best recollection was that it was an anti-drugs (and maybe alcohol?) organization that hosted events for students in 8th grade through high school to essentially show them…
Unwanted Ease
Similarly, when we discuss evidence for spaced practice compared to massed practice, we see the same pattern. The dirty secret that I share with students is that cramming works, but only in the short-term. Massed practice leads to higher performance on immediate tests of memory, but lower performance on delayed tests compared to spaced practice…
Call for Sharing Teaching Practice and Repost of Student Ability, Self-Regulated Spaced Practice, and...
By Carolina Kuepper-TetzelI’m in the middle of preparing for the fast-approaching academic year. Together with a colleague, I will be teaching a brand-new course (‘Life Lab: The Art and Science of Thriving‘) and I’m looking forward to it. As part of my preparation I tend to take stock of activities I’d like to keep, improve,…
Spacing for Professional Learning
[Cover image by ovariancancer1 on Pixabay]by Cindy NebelNaturally, we typically talk about classroom learning with student learners. But fundamentally, we are all learners and as professionals in education, we are expected to continue learning. This means that the same evidence-based strategies that you seek out for your students can apply to you as well.Today I’m…
Student Learning and Assessments in the Age of AI
By Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel In May I attended an all-day ‘AI in Assessment’ workshop with a focus on Psychology degrees in Higher Education in London. Researchers from the UK and Ireland shared insights on students’ attitudes on AI, rethinking assessment approaches, and general considerations on navigating technological progress. I left the workshop thinking: I need to…
Time Management: What is it, who has it, and can you improve it? (Repost)
Time management can refer to a wide range of behaviors and can look very different from person to person. There are lots of different systems and approaches to time management. Making a to-do list, keeping a planner, setting event reminders in your phone, setting goals, prioritizing tasks, and marking events on a calendar can all…
Flipped Classrooms and Academic Achievement
By Megan SumerackiCover image by Tung Lam from PixabayThis fall, I’ll be teaching a course in Social Cognition. This course will be pretty different from what I’ve been teaching lately; the content area is not one that I am used to teaching, so I am excited to learn new things in preparation to teach the…
Thinking is Hard (repost)
Cover Image by Tima Miroshnichenko from PexelsBy Althea Need KaminskeThis week I had the opportunity to teach a guest lecture for medical students interested in AI in Medicine. In preparing for the talk I was, once again, struck by how challenging learning, and especially learning in medicine, can be. Many of the most effective study…
