Luskin's Learning Psychology Series—No. 9. How Are You Smart? The Media Psychology Effect on Learning Encompasses Multiple Intelligences, Diverse Learning Styles, Personal Identity, Willing Motivation ...

Chances are you’ve heard someone say recently: “We only use 10 percent of our brains.” Or, “she’s so creative! She must be right-brained.” As it turns out, those are what cognitive scientists call ...

Since 1983, people have been talking about “multiple intelligences,” an idea proposed by Howard Gardner, a Harvard developmental psychologist, in his book Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple ...

When Associate Professor and Chemical Education Researcher Danaè Quirk Dorr noticed a correlation between student learning styles and achievement in her large organic chemistry course, she decided to ...

To be honest, I flirted with the idea of not writing this blog. What’s the old saying? “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” The reality is that I ...

Everyone has a different style of learning. Some people do well with reading the written word. Others learn better through audio. For some, sitting in a quiet library or home office space is key. For ...

Not all children learn in the same manner. A single classroom contains children with broadly differing learning styles, yet are taught in the same way. And even within the same family, siblings often ...

Each individual learns differently. What works for one person may not work for another. As any good educator knows, teaching one piece of content in different ways can have an instrumental impact on ...