A study in the new Best Evidence in Brief caught my eye because we also discussed this briefly in our second myth book: what is the effect of co-teaching? We concluded in our book that there is not much research on the effectiveness of the approach on learning in comparison to e.g. regular teaching. Do note:… Read More The effects of co-teaching for students with disabilities (Best Evidence in Brief)
This study only shows correlations, typical for screen time research. Paulich and colleagues show in their research that school-aged children who spend more time in front of screens are only slightly more likely to have attention disorders, disturbed sleep or lower grades and The good news is that they are no more likely to suffer… Read More The benefits of screen time for school-aged children?
On my Dutch blog, I posted this study by Pilegard and Fiorella on how gestures can help with learning. This study by Brian Mathias and colleagues also discusses gestures and their effect on learning, but within another topic as it shows that gestures can also help to translate foreign language words into one’s native language.… Read More Gestures can help when learning vocabulary in a foreign language
Having not enough free time can make you feel bad. That’s why as an individual’s free time increases, so does that person’s sense of well-being. But this is only the case up to a point. New research shows that too much free time can also be a bad thing… The study is interesting, but it’s… Read More Too much free time can also be a bad thing (well, maybe)
This study on our brain’s ‘prediction machine’ capabilities is both fascinating and fun. Ok, maybe I’m biased because it is about music. But bear with me as to whether listening to a concerto by Bach or the latest pop tunes on Spotify, the human brain does not wait passively for the song to unfold. Instead,… Read More How our brain predicts the future while listening to music
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Kate Rousmaniere is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University (Ohio). She wrote The Principals’ Office: A Social History of the American School Principal, (Albany: SUNY Press,2013). The following article appeared in Atlantic Online, November 8, 2013. A few…
This paper led by Penn State graduate Brenna Hassinger-Das and Jennifer Zosh explores the science-backed core pillars of learning and examples of play spaces that incorporate them. The good news is that a lot of the suggestions are easy and a lot of parents are already doing this. The six pillars which are taken from… Read More Six tips for maximizing play time with your children
This is maybe a less practical study for education, although in the long run it can maybe lead to new practical insights. This study investigated how we visualize things that we have already seen, discovering that many adults are resistant to imagining their own vision as if it were a flat image — seeing it… Read More New study shows differences in how we perceive images: We are all used to seeing the 3D world that we live in reduced to 2D, whether in art, photography, or film
