Over the past few years we’ve written a lot about creativity and how to spark divergent thinking, from physical activities like taking a walk or doodling to using technology more effectively. But the idea that creativity is something we can actually learn and develop is a still relatively new one. Creativity is often viewed as… Read More

Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better when it’s presented in an immersive Virtual Reality (VR) setting. Drawing on a spatial mnemonic encoding technique called the Memory Palace (or Method of Loci), the researchers had 40 participants memorize the positions of images in a virtual setting. The images were… Read More

While high school students are often maligned for wasting their time on Instagram or partying with friends, the stereotype is not true for two recent New Jersey high school graduates. Instead of hanging out with their friends or worrying about college admissions test, they decided to take on the slightly bigger problem of racial literacy…. Read More

The production effect, coined by researchers at the University of Waterloo in 2010, was first observed in language learners who improved recall for new words by speaking them aloud. It was first documented in a series of experiments in which “the mere act of reading words aloud resulted in substantially better memory than reading them… Read More

“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” –Augusta F. Kantra I find that most time management strategies don’t work for me because they are designed around time rather than the way the brain actually works. For example, it doesn’t help me to break my day into a series of… Read More

What is it about having an important task to complete that makes us want to focus on anything but that one task? Procrastinate, postpone, delay—call it what you like, but there’s no denying that our tendency to put things off until the last minute can be problematic. Procrastination is particularly troublesome for students, and according… Read More