The language of part two, on deploying lessons of deliberate practice in education, is striking and unusual. There are many sports analogies. For example, teachers should balance drill and ...

Science shows that practice improves learning. 6 Unfortunately, most students don’t get enough time to develop what they are learning.

Designing active learning strategies aligned with the science of human learning can help students overcome erroneous ideas about how learning works (e.g. re-reading class notes as a way to prepare for ...

Now Oakley and Sejnowski have teamed up with former middle school teacher Beth Rogowsky, currently a professor of education, to produce a MOOC and a book designed specifically for teachers. The ...

The “science of learning,” by contrast, most often describes the work of researchers in fields like cognitive psychology and ... “That transition to practice has to happen,” she says.

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Scientific American and Macmillan Education co-hosted a South by Southwest Edu panel and an evening event at the new Google Fiber space in Austin, Texas, on the "Science of Learning." ...

Watch this quick explanation of Spaced Practice by The Learning Scientists: Spaced Practice Video Clip As homeschoolers, we are usually MUCH LESS constrained by time and the crazy rushing around ...

If any of the following six terms — central to what cognitive scientists have discovered about learning — are unfamiliar, you probably had a teacher training program like mine: retrieval practice, ...