In psychology and neuroscience, many scholars and students alike are familiar with the saying “neurons that fire together, wire together”. This catchphrase was popularized after the discovery of Hebb’s rule, in relation to long term potentiation and neural synaptic plasticity. However,... View Article
As the world becomes more reliant on technology, beginning as early as kindergarten and extending all the way to post-secondary school, it’s hard to escape the ubiquity of tech’s influence on one’s educational journey. This is even more pronounced as... View Article
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school lockdowns and the shift to learning in a remote virtual format led to increased uncertainty, burnout amongst teachers and setbacks for many, as education was seemingly put to a halt. Students with neurological learning challenges... View Article
Librarians play an important role in supporting individuals in learning how to access research databases and to become more literate in digital media. Yet according to recent statistics published by Antioch University Seattle in the School Librarian Investigation Decline of... View Article
The shift to online schooling during the pandemic highlighted inequity among students, some of whom lacked financial resources to secure a stable, high-speed, encrypted and protected internet connection. Additionally, a significant number of students also had challenges with online schooling... View Article
The term “real world” is often thrown around in classrooms. Many teachers will say the course they are teaching will apply in the real world, or that once students graduate they will be let loose in the real world. Yet,... View Article
The Star released an article by Nicole Thompson, listing some of the new fears of high school teachers regarding cheating on online tests. With tests no longer being written under direct teacher observation, students have found multiple ways to cheat.... View Article
In a recent McGovern Institute study described in an article by Anne Trafton, researchers have identified the brain circuit that is responsible for maintaining the motivation to learn new things or engage in daily activities. The circuit was specifically involved... View Article
A large focus of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) research is identifying early intervention strategies to decrease the risk and early onset of the disease. To test these strategies, the populations involved must benefit from the research. Many variables that are linked... View Article
The future of education, specifically post-secondary education, lies in online learning. A post-secondary institution that delivers content materials and teaches its students online just as successfully as it does in person will fare far better in the advancing digital world.... View Article
If you read a phone number and then do some other task afterwards, do you think you will still remember the phone number? John Sweller, a professor emeritus at the University of New South Wales, disagrees. He firmly believes that the... View Article
There is a popular belief that the left brain is the logical, rational and analytical side of the brain, while the right hemisphere is associated with emotion and creativity. Perhaps building on this idea of lateralization, some also hold that... View Article
