This post was co-written by Dr. Thalia R. Goldstein (posted on her blog here), and Brittany Thompson. The post describes an academic paper recently published in Child Development. One possible ...

Reading feels like studying. You sit there, eyes moving across the page, maybe even nodding along. It feels calm. Responsible. Like you’re doing the right thing.But here’s the uncomfortable truth.

While it might be tempting to view “active learning” as another educational buzzword, a large body of research demonstrates that active and collaborative classrooms produce deeper and more ...

Active Learning has been referred to as many things, including “project-based learning” and “flipped classes.” The fundamental premise of active learning is the replacement of passive class time with ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...