Digest #182: How To Increase (Self-)Motivation No matter whether you are a student or a teacher, sometimes it can be
difficult to find motivation to start or complete a task. Instead, you may
spend hours procrastinating with other activities and that opens an
unhelpful cycle of stress and unhappiness…
https://www.learningscientists.....org/blog/2025/10/22

How Do You Like Them Apples? On the Importance of Teaching in the Time of AI … I think of those conversations with my dad often. About the enthusiasm
and curiosity they inspired in me. And the stark contrast in how I felt
about technology and the future then to how I feel about technology and the
future now. All of which was highlighted for me recently when I tapped my
phone - my little doom machine - awake to send a message, only to receive a
Google News recommendation about an article in Forbes magazine entitled,
“When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?”
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/10/30

A Framework for Training Students to Better Use Evidence-Based Learning Strategies If you read our blog, even sporadically, you are almost certainly aware
that investigations into evidence-based learning strategies have been
ongoing for quite some time. In fact, as we near the end of 2025, I’m
realizing that Ebbinghaus’ work on spaced practice …
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/11/13

The Box Metaphor for Working Memory How many boxes can you hold? It is clearly a trick question. The answer,
like so many things in our complex world of education is, of course, it
depends. It depends on several factors that match up quite nicely with the
same questions of what we can hold in working memory.
https://www.learningscientists.....org/blog/2025/11/21

Thank You To Our 2025 Community! Today is (American) Thanksgiving so we wanted to take the opportunity to
thank our community! We are so grateful for the continued support,
encouragement, and contributions of our community…
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/11/27