10 Versatile College Majors That Eliminate The Need To Decide Early On A Career Path
(MarketWatch)
“What’s surprising and important to note is that your major no longer dictates your career trajectory and we are seeing that liberal arts majors like psychology, sociology and economics propel grads to take on roles ranging from behavioral therapist to marketing specialists,” says LinkedIn career expert Blair Decembrele.
PhD Goggles: Very Few Of Your Students Are Getting Their Phds. Stop Teaching Stats Like They Are.
(Society for the Teaching of Psychology)
Most of your students are not going to graduate school and will probably never see SPSS again if you do use SPSS. I would wager that the small proportion of students you are teaching who do go on to graduate school likely won’t see SPSS again, either.
Would You Rather? Education Edition #1
(Effortful Educator)
I’m starting a new series on the blog called ‘Would You Rather?’ where a question is posed and I ask teachers/professors/researchers their viewpoint and try to make them choose a side…sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.
10 Most Fantastic TED Talks on Psychology
(Psych Reg)
Human behaviour is indeed complex and intriguing. And it is for this very reason that the field of psychology is totally captivating. I’ve gathered some of the most fascinating TED Talks from psychology’s leading lights.
Positioning Your Research as a Graduate Student to Address Social Injustices
(Grad Psych Blog)
Social injustices involve power relations and unequal access to privileges based on domination and subordination (Miller, 1999; Prilleltensky & Gonick, 1996). Examples abound across the globe, and given their prevalence and impact on human suffering, conducting research to address social injustices are particularly important.
Taking Tiny Breaks Is the Key to Learning New Skills
(The British Psychological Society)
Now it seems that even miniscule breaks, just seconds long, are also vital for learning new skills. A study published recently in Current Biology has found that most of the improvement while learning a motor task comes not while actually practicing, but instead during the breaks between practice sessions.
Is ‘Digital Addiction’ a Real Threat to Kids?
(New York Times)
Think of screens as something to handle in moderation, like food, rather than something without any healthy place in our lives, like heroin, experts say.
How Movement and Exercise Help Kids Learn
(Mind/Shift)
“About a year and a half into that regular exercise routine, I was sitting at my desk writing a grant and this thought went through my mind, ‘Writing is going well!’ I had never had that thought before. Then I realized that all of my work had been going better recently, and the only major change I had made to my life was regularly working out.”
What’s Harder Than Learning? Unlearning
(Education Week)
The biggest impediment to professional change might just be what you already know
