I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

When children are learning, things can sometimes get a little messy. Like on a sunny spring morning in the preschool classrooms at the Early Learning Center, located on the University of Delaware’s ...

Tactile learning experiences—a strategy borrowed from museum education—can help students of all ages retain new information.

AI is changing the rules -- at least, that seems to be the warning behind Anthropic's latest unsettling study about the current state of AI. According to the study, which was published this month, ...

Learning never stops. Oh, and we mean that quite literally. You can learn something intriguing every single day.

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

Sometimes we remember things that we did not even know we had memorised and sometimes the opposite happens – we want to remember something that we know we’ve learned but are not able to recall it.

Teachers often graduate from their preparation programs without a firm grounding in common learning differences like dyslexia, which affects the ability to read. This is the case even though teachers ...

In the Karate Kid movies from the 1980s, main character Daniel LaRusso has a karate teacher (or sensei) named Mr. Miyagi, who has him paint fences and wax cars. When LaRusso trains students in the ...

You've probably heard the saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks." Some people think that once you reach a certain age, you're too old to learn many things. But new research is showing that's ...