At an event last week at the National Press Club, the group unveiled a new report, «The Science of Learning,» which summarizes existing
research from cognitive science and applies it to classroom practice.
While not directly addressing Core Knowledge, the study provides a helpful summary of major
findings from cognitive science relevant to the Core Knowledge approach.
Although
principles from cognitive science such as «Know your students» sometimes sound like bubbe psychology — that is, commonsense wisdom that your grandmother has always known — that doesn't make these principles easy to master, he writes.
Cerego, a company that has operated out of Tokyo since 2000, has opened an office stateside and is launching a new memory management tool based on principles
drawn from cognitive science.
«Atheism: The
View from Cognitive Science» Cognitive Science is the interdisciplinary study of the mind and is in principle and in practice relevant to our understanding of atheism.
«Gathering
information from cognitive science can help refine the ways that we present data to humans and help them form better representations of the information contained in the data.
We know about the skillful application of the hundreds of teaching strategies
derived from cognitive science, applied knowledge of motivation, relationship building, confidence building, and the capacity to explicitly teach students, especially disadvantaged students.
The James S. McDonnell Foundation last month awarded $ 4.3 million to nine teams of researchers to apply
knowledge from cognitive science to classroom settings.
The core members of the L&T faculty bring the latest
research from cognitive science, the social sciences, developmental psychology, and pedagogy to bear on the study and practice of effective teaching.
At the University of Cambridge, cognitive researcher Michelle Ellefson is making her own bid to improve teaching by applying
lessons from cognitive science.
Reif discusses how
findings from cognitive science can help improve teaching and learning, especially science education (and, within that, physics education).
What will it take for MCPS and other districts to grasp this fundamental lesson
from cognitive science?
The past few decades have seen a deep body of research
from cognitive science that underscores her common sense: We smother learning when we sequester it from the community.
E. D. Hirsch has spent twenty - five tireless years bringing these findings
from cognitive science to education policy and practice, but the reaction he has evoked indicates that the curriculum debates Loveless recounts may be shaped by a more fundamental opposition than whole language vs. phonics and multicultural vs. traditionalist.