‘Learning Science’ Is Critical to Understanding How Students Think, but a New Report Shows That Most Future Teachers Don’t Know It. Here Are 3 Top Takeaways

The 74 Million – Benjamin Riley

“Deans for Impact, the organization I helped found, believes that all teachers should understand basic principles of learning science. But what does that mean? We see learning science as the study of how humans think and learn — what others call cognitive science. The past several decades have deepened our scientific understanding of how our minds process and store new information and how we apply that knowledge to novel situations.” (more)