This framework helps teachers decide which behaviors to ignore and which ones need to be addressed—and how to best address ...

Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...

Teachers can foster a healthy classroom culture with these easy-to-plan activities that spark thinking, sharing, and ...

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...

Lloydia Anderson has listened to the common complaint among many students her age: a lack of time to get anything done. Between some juggling jobs and others prioritizing certain classes to get more ...

A new cognitive science major within Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences was approved earlier this year. Now, the major, coordinated by director Prof. Shaun Nichols, cognitive science, and program ...

Most classrooms that use AI in 2026 are teaching students how to use it. Fewer are teaching students how to question it.