Study challenges long-held theory that language is built on grammar trees

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...
New Scientist

How play builds creative minds

A growing body of evidence suggests play is a deep-seated biological mechanism that allows young brains to practice curiosity, manage uncertainty and build critical thinking skills ...
Edutopia

Helping Students Become Active Participants in Science

High school science teachers can design tasks that not only develop students’ science skills but also change how they see ...
Psychology Today

5 Attachment Lessons You Need to Learn for Love

We all want an easy love, or at least one that doesn’t make us panic, bolt, or force us to become a detective. Of course, ...

Not all memories are created equal: How motivation shapes memory

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Duke University ...
Scientific Research Publishing

On the Theory of Human Nature in the Confucian Tradition: Focusing on Zhang Huang’s Theory of Nature and Qi ()

On the Theory of Human Nature in the Confucian Tradition: Focusing on Zhang Huang’s Theory of Nature and Qi. Open Journal of ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Inquiry-based Learning Simply Explained

Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...
Edutopia

Propelling Students Beyond ‘Doing School’

Many students aren’t very engaged in their learning, according to a recent survey of nearly 300,000 high schoolers—and close to half say they’re merely “doing school,” but not finding it particularly ...
The Conversation

Chalk and talk vs. active learning: what’s holding South African teachers back from using proven methods?

Lizélle Pretorius received funding from UNISA as part of a bursary when completing her PhD. She is currently a member of ISATT (International Study Association of Teachers and Teaching) and the Junior ...
C&EN

Reactive Active Learning: An Efficient Approach for Training Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Reacting Systems

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Discovering chemical reaction pathways using quantum mechanics is impractical for many ...
Case Western Reserve University

Experiential Learning

Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing what the student does to learn. (Lovett et ...