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Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students

Cult of Pedagogy

Blake is an AP psychology teacher, but he has also studied cognitive science on his own for close to a decade now and has turned a lot of that study into helpful resources about how to better align our teaching with how students learn. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joinedcome on in.

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Why Students Give You the Blank Stare, and What to Do About It

Cult of Pedagogy

Below are four possible explanations from cognitive psychology to explain this occurrence, followed by some possible solutions. In cognitive psychology, this is a kind of dual coding of information. Why don’t they know this stuff I just taught? Dual coding adds to the context of the material. Come back for more.

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OPINION: Months without play dates, hugs from grandma and trips to the library

The Hechinger Report

Many young children have been away from peers, caregivers, extended family members and other adults, as well as all manner of stimulating activities outside the home, from playgrounds to grocery stores to story time at the library, for nearly half a year now. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Dewey Decimal: The sorting system that revolutionized libraries

Strange Maps

Know thy shelf Bookish types will have guessed what’s going on here even without looking at the title of the map: They are Dewey numbers, indicating where on the shelves of your local library you can find the topics they denote. Dewey revolutionized library sciences by introducing two key concepts: relative location and relative index.

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Psychology Film Club

ShortCutsTV

Designed to enhance the teaching of A-level and AP Psychology, the Film Club is a subscription-only site that gives you unlimited access to all of our Psychology films. Membership costs just £25+VAT per year and our free 30-day trial gives you complete access to all the films in the library. So you can judge the […]

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How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

Helping us do that is Megan Sumeracki, a professor of cognitive psychology at Rhode Island College. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more.

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Sociology Film Club

ShortCutsTV

A couple of years ago – November 2022 to be precise – we launched the Psychology Film Club as a way of offering our complete Psychology library of films to schools and colleges at a reasonable and affordable subscription rate (£25 a year or roughly 50p a week for access to what is currently 50+ […]