Digest #180: Marking Rubrics in Education Delivering engaging and effective presentations is important when it comes
to teaching or when presenting work at conferences. As teachers, we may
want to help our students to develop their presentation skills…
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Imitation versus Retrieval Practice in Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning A couple of months ago I have started re-learning French with a language
learning app. I studied French in school for many years and was quite
fluent in it at the end of my schooling. Unfortunately, I then stopped
speaking or engaging in the language. Fast forward to today...
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The Science of Motivation Many educators struggle with student motivation and, often, it feels like
something that is out of our hands. But there are things that we can do to
support motivation in the classroom and to keep it going, even when Johnny
would rather be anywhere but here.
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2025/6/5-1

Dual Coding and Cognitive Load In today’s blog, I’m covering an older paper by Mousavi, Low, and Sweller
from 1995 (1) titled Reducing Cognitive Load by Mixing Auditory and Visual
Presentation Modes. The goal of their paper was to experimentally test
whether heavy cognitive overload could …
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