What video games get right about motivation, and how education can benefit
People who are extremely old like me, born at a time when a typical class would begin with the teacher saying, “All right, students. Everyone take out their cuneiform scroll and let’s practice writing the 12 letters of our alphabet,” tend to think of video games as a waste of time. We see children and teenagers playing on their consoles and can almost see their brains deteriorating. “Video games,” we say, pointing our index finger to the air, “are a distraction from studying and thinking! Now hand me the remote so I can watch Matlock.”
New doctorate on social-emotional learning, Learning styles and differentiated instruction…and more in this week’s news roundup!
The “good job” you want may not be “good for you”
Your Ability to Understand This Puzzling Statement Could Help You Maximize Your Future Occupational Success
A good way to decide if you should read this blog is to determine how well your beliefs about your future career and your current education agree with the following quotes from the results of a Gallup poll of more than 30,000 college graduates across the United States who rated both the importance of their future occupations and the importance of the role their college education will play in helping them to achieve their occupational aspirations.
Creativity in schools, P-hacking and more in this week’s news roundup
Communicating psychology: Becoming an undergraduate ambassador to share science
Last spring, I was an undergraduate student in an inaugural course called Communicating Psychological Science. At first, I was a little apprehensive about speaking out to my peers about psychological topics, but eventually, I became accustomed to the weekly routine of it and learned to enjoy it. My apprehension, perhaps like many undergraduates, was that I didn’t have enough experience speaking in front of others. While that is a valid fear, it is important to realize that most work in the field of psychology requires the ability to communicate effectively.
Emotional scientists, metacognition in education and more in this week’s roundup
What psychology majors should expect from your study abroad/international experience
Hey, psychology majors. Are you thinking about or planning on studying abroad, whether for a year, semester, winter term, summer sprint semester, or even just a few days or weeks on a faculty-led workshop? Or, are you an international student who is eager to begin your higher education in the United States? It is going to be awesome, right? Right?!? Yes — hopefully. Or maybe not. Or maybe it will even be great and yet stressful at the same time. The point here is: You cannot control the world or everything that happens in your life. However, some of what you will get out of your international experience is what you put into it. That starts all the way back at your expectations.
The mental health of PhD researchers, How parents can help their kids with studying and more in this week’s news roundup!
5 Challenges to Collecting Data on the Psychology Workforce
Seven years ago, when I first began working at the Center for Workforce Studies (CWS), my colleagues and I were given the task of collecting, mining, analyzing, and disseminating data that would be relevant to the psychology workforce and education pipeline. I naively asked myself, “how hard could this be?” After all, other disciplines seemed to be doing it just fine. At the time, I had no idea just how immensely difficult this task would prove to be.