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Learn more about research on student test anxiety and get quick lesson ideas to reduce anxiety with retrieval practice. The more students practice retrieval, the more comfortable they become with high-stakes tests.

New research shows that millions of us are "learning with AI" every week: what does this mean for how (and how well) humans learn?

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Flashcards are an effective learning tool, but flashcard apps can be even more powerful. Here are 5 flashcard apps to improve your studies.

Have you ever fallen asleep in school or during a work meeting? What's missing from these classrooms and conference rooms is engagement: A state of being absorbed, alert, and eager to learn.

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A new study has come out which basically finds that students will be more likely to use retrieval practice as a studying strategy if you explain the reasoning behind it and why it works. I&#…

Annotation can be a powerful way to improve comprehension and increase engagement, but its effectiveness can vary depending on how it's taught.

Pooja Agarwal shares about lessons in life and retrieval practice on episode 479 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

The struggle for our own attention led teaching and learning specialists to design a targeted workshop series using mindfulness and other strategies.

With the end of the semester within sight, we feature a small strategy that makes a big impact on student learning – based on decades of cognitive science research . In scientific lingo, we call it "free recall."

Teachers and students alike know that lectures can be boring. The following quip, widely attributed to Albert Camus, elegantly captures this sentiment; “Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” Yet we – and students – have also experienced situations in which we sat mesmerized as we listened to an exceptionally captivating lecturer. While few of ... Read More

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There are lots of tech tools that make retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback quick and easy. How can you sort through all of them? We've done the work for you. Check out our recommendations! Also, join the Powerful Teaching book tour in a city near you !

Hi, I’m David Handel, MD. I‘m the CEO and co-founder of iDoRecall.com. I’ve had the honor of writing previous guest posts on this blog in the past (see this post, for example ). In today’s guest post, I’ll be sharing more about iDoRecall, highlighting exciting new free resources that are avai

As the 2022-23 school year begins, Carolina students will line up at the Old Well, hoping a sip from it on the first day of classes will lead to a 4.0 GPA at the end of the semester. That sip from the Old Well can’t hurt, but we all know a 4.0 doesn’t happen with […]

There is a lot of talk about Active Learning and the importance of learning by doing, but isn’t reading a kind of doing? In my mind it is, but I am reminded too that research by Bartholomae, Petros…

Nothing cements long-term learning as powerfully as retrieval practice. Learn how to incorporate it into your classroom.

By: Babe Liberman. Digital Promise and the Institute for Applied Neuroscience teamed up to synthesize findings from the growing field of learning sciences research into 10 key insights about how people learn.

College students are reading on-screen more than ever. Yet in higher education, teaching strategies for reading are still largely paper-based and rarely account for the different types or how digital modalities can improve accessibility. In her new book, Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, Dr. Jenae Cohn seeks to recast the conversation as one that’s focused on how educators can …

You are not a visual learner — learning styles are a stubborn myth. Part of this video is sponsored by Google Search.Special thanks to Prof. Daniel Willingha...