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An interesting study on why misconceptions are so hard to correct in scientific thinking.

September 26, 2012 Students Think They Can Multitask. Here's Proof They Can't. By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog. With easy access to all sorts of technology, students multitask. So, do lots of us for that matter. But students are way too convinced that multitasking is a great way to work.

Seat time vs think time?

This is a perfect example of why we need to find out what our students are thinking or believing before we begin trying to teach them anything.

A blog post inspiring instructors to start thinking about "Best practices" for social media in the classroom

Useful for thinking about how to approach Powerpoint slides and other visual aides to teaching.

Teachers know-questions play a different role, depending on when they're used. Before a lesson: Questions are a way to motivate, set goals, stimulate thinking, convey purpose, and create a positive learning environment.

An article on efforts by Chinese high school and universities to incorporate the liberal arts into education, in an effort to "foster more nimble and adaptable" thinking and learning beyond rote education and success at test-taking.

What do you think of using students' grades in later sequential courses as a measure of instructors' success in previous courses? The research of an Ohio State professor is featured in this article!

This article is used in our Course Design Institutes and provides a creative look at critical thinking as related to Perry's cognitive development theory

This article discusses trying to think about students' excuses before dismissing them as being without basis.