Ask people if they are good at multitasking and chances are they’ll say “yes”. Two things to note about this: Any time multiple demands compete for attention (interference) we have…
Category: myths
Poison, Razor Blades, Moral Panic, and Halloween
Growing up I was fortunate to have a father that would selflessly inspect and test my spoils from a long night of trick-or-treating. The common wisdom at the time was…
The Myth of Learning Styles
When I was in college (in the nineteen hundreds), one of my education classes explored Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. I was enamored with the idea. As a doe-eyed…
Myths of Multitasking
More news in the department of “People are Notoriously Wrong about Themselves”, this time under the subheading of distraction and multitasking. Distractions are not the same as multitasking, but they do…
Neuromyths – Part II
In 2018, Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa published Neuromyths: Debunking False Ideas About The Brain, a book that interrogates roughly sixty myths about learning and teaching. She frames each myth by explaining the…
Neuromyths – Part I
In 2018, Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa published Neuromyths: Debunking False Ideas About The Brain, a book that interrogates roughly sixty myths about learning and teaching. She frames each myth by explaining the myth, discussing the…