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Storytelling first, yes, but never to the exclusion of rationality
October 10, 2019This week, a reader comment showed me the need to clarify something I stated in a misleading manner. The...
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Why stories form our native language
September 30, 2019At the end of the last blog entry, I promised to discuss some of the evidence I found that...
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Science vs. story: which approach is the most useful for learning?
September 17, 2019In the past weeks, I have written about my students’ capacity to recall, with high levels of precision and...
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Why stories slide into our memories without effort
August 28, 2019We ended last time with the assertion that moving to narrative-based learning provoked significant, and truly positive, changes in...
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How stories make lessons come alive
August 13, 2019As we mentioned toward the end of the previous post, there were a number of reasons why my students...
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When reality beats theory: why we learn so much from real-life events
July 25, 2019At the end of the last post, I commented that my decision to use the case method – where...
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How teachers can have a lasting impact
July 12, 2019The previous post closed with a question I have been ruminating for many years, and in a variety of...
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Why “keeping it simple” is never easy
June 20, 2019Writing the previous post brought to mind an amusing—but also highly pertinent—tale I read some time ago in the...