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Collaborative Inhibition
This post originally appeared as written on learningscientists.org Things are going well for you as a college student. You like your...

Keri Blumer
May 24, 20185 min read


What are we learning?
After class a student told me, “I thought I had been taught how to learn in school but now you’ve ruined everything.” She asked me to...

Keri Blumer
Mar 5, 20183 min read


The Memory Diet?
Eggs, coffee, blueberries, dark chocolate, walnuts, avocados, kale…. No, this is not my shopping list. It is a list of foods touted by...

Keri Blumer
Jan 30, 20182 min read


Why you want to learn with Learning Styles but should use the LEARN method instead.
Personalized learning sounds great. The idea that you have one preferred way to learn best is appealing. But where you go wrong is...

Keri Blumer
Sep 25, 20172 min read


Photographic memory: Fact or falsehood?
I was giving a guest lecture to a high school psychology class on learning and memory. After getting through much of the content, the...

Keri Blumer
Aug 31, 20173 min read


Back to School and Memory: The Forever Student
I have gone back to school now for thirty-one years in a row. Every year since 1st grade, through 9 years of undergraduate and graduate...

Keri Blumer
Aug 23, 20173 min read


What DOES Google Know?
I have been teaching for seven years at a mid-sized university in the Midwest. The first few years of my teaching I didn’t feel that...

Keri Blumer
Aug 19, 20154 min read
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