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Althea Need Kaminske (née Bauernschmidt) is the senior director for student academic achievement and success at Indiana University School of Medicine. She joined the Learning Scientists team in 2018.
Althea received her PhD from Purdue University, and her BS in Psychology and BA in Linguistics from Indiana University. A common theme throughout her research is the application of cognitive psychology to education. Althea’s research is guided by questions such as: What is the most effective and realistic way for students and teachers to apply retrieval practice in the classroom? How do cell phones and other media affect attention and memory? When she is not thinking about learning, Althea enjoys cooking, hiking, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.
Notetaking Formats
One of the most common metaphors to describe what the first few years of medical school is like is that it is like drinking water from a fire hose. There is an overwhelming amount of information that students need to learn, and need to learn fast. One of the areas that I help medical students with is in improving their notetaking to help them manage the “fire hose” of information.
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Thinking is hard. As someone whose career is more or less based on thinking thoughts, and communicating those thoughts effectively, I have a love-hate relationship with thinking.
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Time Management: What is it, who has it, and can you improve it?
COVID-19 has produced a number of challenges for teachers, students, and parents. We have collected a number of resources to help with at home and distance learning. In today’s post I want to talk about another challenge that results from having our daily routines and work/study environments upended: time management.
A Brief Overview of Working Memory
Working memory is an important concept that we’ve referred to in passing in several other Learning Scientist posts. This relatively simple concept influences how we think about learning and memory, so I wanted to give a brief overview of what working memory is, how it works, and why it’s important.