The Power of Storytelling: Why Stories Stick
Why Do Stories Stick? You may remember sitting through training sessions, lectures, or presentations packed with useful information only to forget most of it by the next day. But tell us a story and something different happens. We do not just remember information, we remember experiences. Like the overwhelmed first-year teacher trying to manage a […]
Instructional Illusions
In classrooms worldwide, we often confuse busyness with learning, novelty with effectiveness, and engagement with deep understanding. In Instructional Illusions, Kirschner, Hendrick and Heal (2025) pull back the curtain on ten pervasive but misleading assumptions about teaching and learning—what look like good practices on the surface, but which cognitive science shows are often counterproductive. This […]
Rewiring Education: How Neuroscience Is Transforming University Teaching (Part 1)
This is the first in a 5-part series exploring how insights from brain science can revolutionize teaching and learning in higher education. The Century-Old Classroom vs. The Modern Brain Picture two university classrooms. In the first, a professor stands at the front, delivering a meticulously prepared 90-minute lecture. Students dutifully transcribe notes, occasionally glancing at […]
