Category Archives: Cognitive Science and Psychology

Daniel Willingham

Posted on May 27, 2013 by

If you look to the right, you’ll see some new links in the blogroll — “Ask the Cognitive Scientist” and “Science and Education.” The links will take you to two incredibly informative resources on learning and teaching by Daniel Willingham, … Continue reading →

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The Mind as a Muscle

Posted on May 25, 2013 by

Some further thoughts on the mind as a muscle and training it to perform more effectively: I recently gave a presentation to colleagues that began with a different sports analogy — a baseball player who wants to improve his (I’ll stick … Continue reading →

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Posted on April 14, 2013 by

I view sharing my hard-earned wisdom on the world with students as part my responsibility as an educator, and every semester I encounter students with ill-formed plans to attend graduate school in the social sciences, humanities, or law. When I … Continue reading →

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Feeling Motivated?

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

My least favorite questions from my minions: 1. Will this be on the test? 2. What do I have to do to get an A in this class? 3. Do I have to read the whole thing? 4. How many … Continue reading →

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Heuristics In The Snow

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

I’m a big fan of heuristics. Heuristics are essentially checklists or other procedures that can efficiently guide one’s thinking when making decisions in environments of stress and uncertainty. The Apgar score is a heuristic that gets applied to many of … Continue reading →

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How Many Ways To Skinner A Cat?

Posted on January 5, 2013 by

As promised in my last post, it’s time to briefly discuss some changes that are still needed in  teaching. A colleague recently loaned me a copy of B. F. Skinner’s Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1978). Skinner … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 25, 2012 by

The Word Problem Problem Recently I was faced with the question of whether to use some of the same books in two different courses. Isn’t each course supposed to have distinctive content? But what about the unity of knowledge? My internal … Continue reading →

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Curiouser and curiouser

Posted on July 21, 2012 by

What do we, university professors who are employed to teach others, know about learning? If your graduate training was like mine, it’s very little. We are a self-selected group of people, good at memorizing and synthesizing information from a very … Continue reading →

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