Wait, I will look it up! And you see the other person grabbing for his or her cell phone. Lately, there has been a lot of buzz on the extended mind, in part because of the book by Annie Murphy Paul. This study by Siler et al. published in May, examines the effect of cell… Read More How retrieving from smartphones affects memory for source
It’s the last day of June. I still have a lot of work left to do, but it’s also getting high time to take a break. Therefore I won’t be posting anything on this blog until August. Have a great July and hope to see you all again. Btw, our new book will be published… Read More See you on the other side of summer!
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
School reformers’ names are often forgotten. Except for John Dewey who died in 1952. His name continues to resonate among supporters and opponents of his ideas about school, society, curriculum, and teaching. But Dewey is an exception, not the rule. Save for historians of…
Over the past few years, I have posted quite some studies about the negative effect of noise on learning (check e.g. here and here). This new study suggests that traffic noise at schools has a detrimental effect on the development of working memory and attention in primary-school students. From the press release: Road traffic noise is… Read More The negative effect of traffic noise on cognitive development
Originally posted on Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
Jeffrey Young produces and hosts Ed Surge podcasts and is managing editor of EdSurge. He interviewed me in January 2022. Here is an edited version of that interview. It turns out emergency remote instruction is far from new. Back in 1937, when a polio…
Originally posted on 3-Star learning experiences:
Guest blog by Sofie Willox This article was originally published in Dutch in HR Magazine, March 2022. It discusses five dimensions that promote learning transfer based on our (Mirjam & Paul) book “Evidence-Informed Learning Design – Creating Training to improve Learning Design”. To what extent do people actually apply…
I can imagine this study will stir some discussion, as it relates to brain games and transfer. There was the open letter years ago, that all you practice while doing such games is… such games. This new study examines the claim of far transfer again, but with looking at near transfer as a kind of… Read More Does ‘near transfer’ predict ‘far transfer’?
There is a new Best Evidence in Brief and this time I picked this study from this biweekly newsletter written up by Amanda Neitzel: Summer slide, or the loss of student learning progress over the summer months, is of concern to parents and educators. While summer school has been offered as a possible solution, it can be expensive… Read More Preventing summer slide through the mail (Best Evidence in Brief)
During the writing of our upcoming book, I started to be amazed by with very young children are capable of. This new study adds to this amazement as the researchers found that preverbal infants can make and act on moral judgments about antisocial behaviour in a third party. From the press release: For millennia, philosophers… Read More Don’t underestimate young children part 212: Infants can make moral judgments on behalf of others
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