Working memory allows a person to temporarily hold and manipulate a limited amount of information. Research shows significant differences in working memory between skilled and less skilled readers. This video highlights some research-based approaches that can help those with low working memory become proficient readers.
Guadalupe Valdés, the Bonnie Katz Tenenbaum Professor of Education at Stanford University, discusses how language is acquired and provides advice to ed-tech developers on how to design products that can support English Language Learners.
Retrieval practice is a learning strategy based on more than 100 years of cognitive science and neuroscience research. Dr. Pooja K. Agarwal, cognitive scientist and former K-12 teacher, studies this evidence-based approach, and has found that it works for diverse students in all grade levels.
How can educators motivate students? Three strategies from Edward Deci and Richard Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory help students get and stay motivated.
The first of four segments (“Characteristics”) in Understanding Autism: A Guide for Secondary Teachers, designed to provide general education teachers with strategies for supporting their middle and high school students with autism.At the end of this segment, viewers will be able to: (1) Describe how autism impacts learners; (2) Indicate how the characteristics of autism impacts individuals in a school setting; and (3) Understand that autism manifests itself differently in individual learners.
In this selection from his Floating University lecture, Professor Steven Pinker deduces the nature of language acquisition by examining the generative use of grammar in children.
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