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A Portal for On-line Memory Techniques by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health A reader of this blog, Bruce Hopkins, recently told me about his new web-site portal for web-sites on memorization techniques. This site ( bruce.hopkins@memorymethods ... Read on »

More on Jazz-band Teaching & Learning by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I probably need to explain a couple of learning principles mentioned in the original post on jazz-band teaching and learning. One principle is operant conditioning, w ... Read on »

What All Teachers Should Learn from Jazz-band Teachers by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I just came back from a jazz festival at Katy High School in Texas that show-cased student stage bands from ten schools mostly near Houston, but some as far away as ... Read on »

Children Still Not Reading Well by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health For the last 15 years, official data indicate there have been almost no increase in reading scores, despite the fact that the main purpose of No Child Left Behind. Look at ... Read on »

Training Working Memory by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Working memory refers to the memory you can consciously hold in your mind at any one instant — such as a phone number you just looked up. Most people can only hold about fo ... Read on »

Teaching as a Profession in Jeopardy by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Politicians and the stock market may give the impression that we are recovering from the recession. Teachers won’t buy it. A survey completed last November by ... Read on »

How Teacher Labor Market Affects Teaching Quality by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Turnover of U.S. teachers is a major reason for our educational problems. In 1987, the modal value of teacher experience has dropped from 15 years to just one year in 2007- ... Read on »

School Discipline and Learning Motivation by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health A major public flap seems to be occurring over the discipline policy of the Noble Street College Prep schools in Chicago. The news report that was called to my attention ... Read on »

The Role of Learning and Memory in "Free Will" by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health One common definition of “free will” is that a person can decide or choose among multiple alternatives without being forced by physical laws, luck, fate, or divine w ... Read on »

Evidence Matters by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Quite often, I suspect, readers of my memory columns wonder (complain?) about my emphasis on memory studies, what they show and do not show. Editors and publishers ha ... Read on »

How Memory Is Stored by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health When you look up a phone number, the digits are coded as patterns of nerve impulses flowing around in a group of neurons. As long as the encoded numbers are “on-line” lik ... Read on »

To Cram or Not to Cram? -- That Is the Question by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Most students, at one time or another, have crammed for an examination. Researchers refer to this as massed trials, where objects of learning are studied all at the same ... Read on »

Neat summary graphic on memory by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health One of the followers of this blog called my attention to a neat summary graphic on memory that her group at Online Colleges has posted. See http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2 ... Read on »

Improving Memory Involves Mo ... by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Improving Memory Involves More Than Gimmicks Two elderly couples were enjoying friendly conversation when one of the men asked the other, "Fred, how was the memo ... Read on »

Your Kid May Be Smart. Just Don’t Tell Him So Too Often by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Some people say that we learn best from our mistakes. But all of us know about people who never seem to learn from their mistakes. This failure to learn is most obvious w ... Read on »

My other blog activities by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I am delighted to have so many followers. However, it is not nearly as many as I apparently have at Psychology Today, where the reader views of my posts there now total ove ... Read on »

Save Us From the Education Experts by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health The New Framework for K-12 Science Education. What They Missed. The National Research Council of the National Academies recently released their landmark e ... Read on »

Fix Bad Federal Education Policy by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Fix Bad Federal Education Policy Congress is now going through the ritual of tweaking the No Child Left Behind law for the nation’s schools. The law is vigorously oppo ... Read on »

New e-book on Better Grades, Less Effort by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health Better Grades News Release, Sept. 20, 2011 From: Benecton Press Dr. Bill Klemm, "Memory Medic," has just released a new e-book, Better Grades, Less Effort. The book ... Read on »

Neuro-education: hot new area in education by Bill Klemm Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Brain Health I just returned from the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning conference that I attended in Aspen, Colorado. Neuro-education is a hot new education movement based on transi ... Read on »

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