This article provides the second half of ten pseudoscientific statements from the domain of cognitive sciences applied to learning and education

This article provides the first half of ten pseudoscientific statements from the domain of cognitive sciences applied to learning and education

Screens are omnipresent in our daily lives and are often declared to have a negative influence on a child’s learning and development. Brain specialist Grégoire Borst expresses a more nuanced point of view.

Professor Richard M. Felder is a scientist who pivoted toward education engineering. As he became more and more involved with educators and their scientific discoveries, he developed a more successful approach to his lectures.

Cognitive psychologist and neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has highlighted the main contributors to successful learning, which are attention, active engagement, feedback, and consolidation. He refers to these four fundamental elements as the « four pillars of learning ».

Participating in one’s learning rather than passively listening to the teacher speak, that is the idea behind active learning methods, which are steadily being introduced in education, from primary school to higher education and lifelong learning.

In this article, you will find: That education is more than transmission of information; That peer instruction, a form of active learning, can be experimented with in a university setting; And an easy recipe for peer instruction. What if I told you that this is not the best way to teach? That is what award-winning Prof. Eric Mazur from Harvard University has been advocating since the early nineties. Mazur started teaching physics at Harvard in a most traditional setting.

The learning method known as spaced practice has been around for a very long time and has been proven to work. What are you waiting for?

This month we will discover that quizzes are not only used to measure students' knowledge: they also help to strengthen it.

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When studying for a test, most students use a method called massed practice, or as it is commonly known, cramming. The issue teachers find…