That listening to music while studying (specifically, reading assigned content for comprehension) is good for you, is one of those myths that persist, despite irrefutable evidence to the contrary...
Does listening to music help learning?
Category: Readings
Blinkist-style book-club activity: manageable book-reading
What's the best approach to get grad students to read complete books, without overwhelming them with work? Here I explore a solution inspired in one of my favorite phone apps, Blinkist, and merging it with an old-fashioned book-club idea...
Helping students read (aka “Magic ink” activity)
Reading complex, information-packed content that includes many completely new concepts is challenging: students may be tempted to breeze-through the text too fast, half an hour before class for which it was assigned, or late at night, twenty minutes before the submission deadline...
