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September 7, 2011 Daniel T. Willingham is a cognitive pyshcology professor at the University of Virgina who writes an interesting article in his series, «Ask the Cognitive Scientist» which addresses self - regulation.

Note: Story is such an excellent way to communicate that Daniel Willingham devotes several pages to it in his book Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom.

An interesting post by lawyer and cognitive scientist Peter Macmillan, was captured in part by comments in the LinkedIn Legal Innovation and Technology group, caught my attention last week.

An ocean away, Stephan Lewandowsky, an Australian cognitive scientist, also fails to condemn Gleick's actions.

In 2012, cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky and his colleagues surveyed more than 1,000 climate blog readers and observed a link between science denial and conspiracy theorizing.

I am a cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol.

«Professor Stephan Lewandowsky is an Australian Professorial Fellow and cognitive scientist in the School of Psychology at UWA.

The American philosopher and cognitive scientist Dan Dennett once offered the following advice to those seeking to experience happiness: «Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.»

This video and sound installation were created by an artist and cognitive scientist to explore the communication of dolphins, featuring spoken - word interpretations of dolphins» interactions with each other.

In collaboration with cognitive scientist Michael Cole and programmer Joshie Fishbein, the Reverse Color Organ is being developed into a web based app that places this synaesthetic tool into peoples» hands to be used not only to expand the language of color, but also as a crowd - sourced musical instrument.

In collaboration with cognitive scientist Michael Cole, the Reverse Color Organ is being developed into an app and website to put this synaesthetic tool into peoples» hands to be used not only to expand the language of color, but also as a crowd - sourced musical instrument.

New research, led by cognitive scientist Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could shed light onto the dubious effects of advertising on the human psyche.

Cognitive scientist David Rubin conducted an experiment with college students and found that they remembered rhyming words in a ballad more than non-rhyming words.

Ask the Cognitive Scientist.

In a 2012 speech, he cited the cognitive scientist as «one of the biggest influences on my thinking about education reform.»

In a recent speech on anti-poverty initiatives, British Prime Minister David Cameron cited the work of University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, who argues that expanding the knowledge base of disadvantaged students is key to improving their reading... [Read more...]

I was first introduced to Dan Willinghama's writing through the «Ask the Cognitive Scientist» column sponsored by the American Federation of Teachers.

My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

My guest is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a pyschology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about why parents should listen to their child's teachers — especially when they don't like what they hear.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about something that he says may come as close to being a magic bullet in education as anything.

Every week University of Virginia Professor Daniel Willingham writes for this blog about education through his eyes as a cognitive scientist and researcher.

Here's the second part of cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham's article on how students end up thinking they know something when they don't.

My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes, «Most of what you see advertised as educational advice rooted in neuroscience is bunkum.»

My guest is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham writes about «mind - wandering» — or zoning out of what you are doing — and how it affects students at school.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham asks and answers: «Is there a social cost to academic achievement?»

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham critiques a popular video that insists that we «do not simply need to fix or improve our schools but to completely rethink how they operate.»

(Jossey - Bass, 2008), cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham also upholds the complexity of teaching, explaining that teaching must be an «act of persuasion» if teachers are to convince students that learning is worth the effort.

University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham calls that «a terrible idea» here and he is exactly right.

We were pleased to host cognitive scientist Carmen Simon in a webinar last week.

Ask the cognitive scientist: Math anxiety: Can teachers help students reduce it?

http://ldx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/80 HOW WE LEARN - ASK THE COGNITIVE SCIENTIST The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading Comprehension Strategies Author: Daniel T. Willingham American Educator (American Federation of Teachers), Winter 2006 - 07 Results from 481 studies on 16 different categories of strategies conclude that; «Teaching children strategies is definitely a good idea.»

Memory is the residue of thought — Daniel Willingham, Cognitive Scientist and author of «Why Don't Students Like School?»

That may be fine with postmodernist professors but it contradicts the work of every respectable cognitive scientist.

That prompted Dan Willingham, a University of Virginia cognitive scientist, to observe, «Rarely does a policymaker as much as say, «Screw the data, I'm doing what I want.

Huynh explained that he and his colleagues at We Want To Know, the Norwegian game company he'd co-founded with French cognitive scientist Patrick Marchal, had been trying to decide whether to sell the game to schools, which were beginning to buy iPads at a steady clip.

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning.

For the uninitiated, University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in a recent blog post offered an economical summary of the Hirschean oeuvre:

A cognitive scientist and educational psychologist by training, Emiliano has pioneered and influenced the convergence of technology and education.

For the moment, though, these findings serve as a reminder that there is no such thing as a dumb question, because as cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham notes in his book Why Don't Students Like School?

These Games Will Do it for You Smithsonian.com, 7/21/14 «I was initially not sold on the idea of augmented reality,» said cognitive scientist Tina Grotzer, a professor in Harvard's graduate school of education and the co-principal investigator for both the EcoMUVE and EcoMobile projects.

That is because, as cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham wrote, «Every passage that you read omits information.

Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, an expert in the field, explains that it is not catering to the individual child's learning style that affects achievement, but rather the utilising of the modality that best supports specific content that determines whether it is mastered.

University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has repeatedly cautioned against invoking the idea of developmental stages to draw strong conclusions about what children are ready for.

Similarly, instead of quoting a single cognitive scientist about the deficiencies of project - based learning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences.

Tina Grotzer is a cognitive scientist whose research identifies ways in which understandings about the nature of causality impact our ability to deal with complexity in our world.

In a recent piece on RealClearEducation, University of Virginia cognitive scientist Dan Willingham rightly takes exception to a common interpretation of close reading.

Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The Classroom.