Took a little winter road trip and listened to @Grandaddy's terrific new album, Blu Wav, on repeat. @jasonlytle and crew have done it again! Cheers from Bozeman

RT @BradleyKBusch: ⭐️⭐️ Early contender for most useful study of the year⭐️⭐️. 15 ways to use PowerPoint more effectively for learning. Ver….

What do you want to know?.

“…the ability to inquire and create constructively and independently without external controls.”.Noam Chomsky - On Being Truly Educated via @YouTube.

RT @ollie_lovell: Highly impactful advice from @DTWillingham on how to be an effective student. A podcast to share with your students: http….

Sad to hear of the passing of Endel Tulving. He had a MASSIVE impact on the scientific study of human memory and paved the way for so many in the field, including myself.

RT @effortfuleduktr: New Today. Article Review: Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom..An article review of a study looking at the….

To all my fellow educators: Elizabeth Bjork and I just published a CLASSROOM STUDY showing that students' learning can profit *significantly* from short, low-stakes pretests (given right before lectures). Questions/comments are always welcome!

When will this madness end?!.

. if the kid is a visual learner, the teacher should use hand signals or give the kid a picture of a chair.

. if the kid is a kinesthetic learner, the teacher should physically guide the student back to place. Or. .

I just heard someone say that if a child is running around the classroom and not listening to the teacher, perhaps the kid isn't an auditory learner. And. .

RT @adamboxer1: HUGELY excited that we can finally reveal this gamechanging resource for KS3 science. Every week, a different head of sci….

Hi all! I've started a PARENT SERIES collection to provide parents with general advice (based on cog psych) to help their children succeed in school and beyond. My first installment: Teach Your Child to See Challenges and Failures as Opportunities

RT @StevenCPan: New publication in Memory & Cognition: Can learners become aware, or be helped to become aware, of the learning benefits of….

RT @ReganARGurung: Thrilled to unveil John Dunlosky and my take on a digestible cog science. Not just WHAT to do but HOW and Why. Pragmatic….

Congratulations to Robert Bjork for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences! An incredible achievement by an incredible person.

I present to you Jon Bon Beetlejuice 😂 (because someone had to do it!)

This is really nice! One thing I'd add is that interleaving--when in the form of math problems, for example--gets students to CHOOSE the appropriate strategy, rather than simply execute it. BLOCKING = executing; INTERLEAVING = choosing + executing.

Norway’s radically different approach to sports helped it climb to the top of the Olympic podium /via @globeandmail

When watching American sporting events, it's not uncommon to hear a commentator react to a well-executed skill by saying, "You can't teach that." This is, of course, an argument for innate talent. It's also so wrong that it doesn't even rise to the level of being false.