Science of Learning

Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences revisited: Are both Neuromyths?

Extended version adapted from BRAZ-TESOL’s Newsletter For decades the idea that people can be categorized according to how they...

Past and Future of Teaching: A Science of Learning Perspective

Disclaimer: This text was generated by ChatGPT. Well, not entirely. Let me explain it better. This text was rewritten by ChatGPT based on...

Is Digital the Solution? Accessibility, Learning, Addiction, and Crime

I have bad news. I’m addicted to screens. And you might be too. Maybe you don’t know it, and perhaps you’re even denying my accusation,...

Chandler Bing, Pain, Fear, and War

It starts like this: you are told that you'll play a game with two other participants. As you, these participants are inside an fMRI...

The Quantum Leap of Pseudoscience and its Relation to Education

My close encounter of the third kind It was in 2007, on a hot and sunny afternoon, that I had my first contact with the alien. Don’t...

5 Science of Learning Strategies to Boost Learning - No Magic Formulas

About 6 years ago I became obsessed with finding some sort of magic formula of what a successful lesson plan should look like. I got into...

The Four Pillars of Learning: Universal Principles Every Educator Should Know

How do we learn? When I started planning the webinars for EdYOUfest and realized I would have to deliver one myself, I thought really...

Neuroscience Applied to Education: Where are we now?

There has been quite a lot of buzz around the idea of joining neuroscience and education. Many would claim that neuroscientific...