Is there any truism about cognitive capacity that is more familiar than “use it or lose it?” Of all the things we could talk about in applications of neuroscience, this is one that shows up surprisingly often, even in the…
Category: Cognitive Psychology and Learning
New article on the slowing of the ed tech revolution
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, Higher Education, and Technology
Hot off the virtual presses!
Learning Styles The Musical! And a few more thoughts on a sticky but wrong idea
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, Higher Education, and K-12
It’s making the rounds again: the not-really-new news that VAK* learning styles are a myth.
The (sometimes) magical world of active learning
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, Ideas and Resources, and Trends and Change
For the first time in a few years, I’ve been off contract for a good chunk of the summer with no looming book deadline.
On the amazing longevity of the learning styles notion, and what cognitive science has to say about it
Posted in Cognitive Psychology and Learning, and K-12
I had a conversation the other day with NAU colleague Larry Gallagher that inspired me to return to something I’d been thinking and writing about a while back: the astonishing persistence of the learning styles notion.