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Study Skills Activities to Promote Independent Learning

by Winston Sieck 2 Comments updated July 14, 2020

Study skills activities for lifelong learning

Your school year is going fairly smoothly. With your carefully crafted lessons and strong scaffolds, students seem to be getting the material reasonably well. Then you start to wonder… Would they be able to learn more about the topic on their own? Or in college, where the instructors leave … [Read more...] about Study Skills Activities to Promote Independent Learning

Filed Under: Learning Science

Teaching Study Skills to Empower Your Students

by Winston Sieck 2 Comments updated July 14, 2020

Teaching study skills for independent learning

Too often, conscientious students show up to class thinking that your job is to lay out the perfect plan for them to learn. And theirs is simply to glide through it. It’s frustrating because you do try to design lessons that will help all of your students to master the material. But the … [Read more...] about Teaching Study Skills to Empower Your Students

Filed Under: Learning Science, Popular

How to Study Efficiently and Remember What You Study

by Winston Sieck Leave a Comment updated July 14, 2020

Get concrete to study efficiently

School is unreal. Imagine you’re suffering through an algebra class. Graph this weird function. Can you solve for Y? You move on to physics. The teacher discusses electrons spinning around neutrons and protons. You shake your head. None of this is real. Pure fantasy land. What can you … [Read more...] about How to Study Efficiently and Remember What You Study

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Teaching Kids to Program Computers

by Winston Sieck 3 Comments updated July 30, 2020

teaching kids to program computers

As we propel headlong into the 21st century, there is increasing interest in teaching kids to program computers. A few schools have been teaching kids to program for decades. Others are seeking ways to include it now. Yet, programming has often been treated as a specialized technical skill. It … [Read more...] about Teaching Kids to Program Computers

Filed Under: Learning Science, Thinking & Deciding Tagged With: Parenting Teens

Tiger Moms Eat Their Young: A Parenting Style to Avoid

by Winston Sieck 4 Comments updated July 30, 2020

Tiger Mom Parenting Style

A common stereotype holds Chinese mothers to be strict authoritarians, mercilessly ruling over the children with iron fists. The thought of adopting a parenting style that exerts such extreme control may be hard to think about for many European-American parents. Yet, there is the nagging … [Read more...] about Tiger Moms Eat Their Young: A Parenting Style to Avoid

Filed Under: Culture & Communication, Learning Science Tagged With: Parenting Teens

21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart

by Winston Sieck updated July 14, 2020

Study tips to get to the top

It’s annoying, isn’t it? You see them in every class. The students who seem to breeze on through. Coolly killing one test after another. How do they do it? Is it something you can master? Yep, it is. You see, scientists have been snooping on these top students for decades. It’s not … [Read more...] about 21 Study Tips: Learn the Strategies that Set Top Students Apart

Filed Under: Learning Skills, Popular

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