Didask Blog: Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

To fight against forgetting, put your memory to the test

A little bit of forgetting can be beneficial for learning: it is by making the effort to find what you have learned from memory that you will consolidate your progress in the long term.

Svetlana Meyer

September 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

The testing effect: training by testing yourself to learn sustainably

We learn better with tests rather than with simple rereads: this is what we call the testing effect, and cognitive sciences have shown it!

Ava Guez

September 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

21st century skills: working on them better thanks to cognitive science

Discover the most effective methods to train your employees in 21st century skills through cognitive science.

Svetlana Meyer

November 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Let learning breathe: to progress, time is your best ally!

Research recommends spacing out our learning over time to obtain better results in the long term.

Svetlana Meyer

September 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

eLearning platforms: what if we went towards more educational simplicity?

Artificial intelligence, serious game, videos, social learning, social learning, chatbot, virtual and augmented reality personal learning assistant... Technological innovations compete in ingenuity to keep learners in front of their screens. Except that being committed does not always mean learning and the race for functionalities shows its limits. What if educational simplicity was the solution?

Svetlana Meyer

December 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Pedagogy for “good students”, too present in digital training!

Without us necessarily being aware of it, many of the pedagogical practices used in digital learning are adapted to good students... to the detriment of those who have a more complicated relationship with training, and who nevertheless are sometimes the very ones who would need it the most. However, we can correct the situation and here are our tips!

Svetlana Meyer

October 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Micro learning and adaptive learning: what is the difference between these 2 e-learning practices?

Microlearning and adaptive learning are approaches that have become common in digital learning. But what do these practices consist of? What are their advantages? Are they competing or complementary? Didask decrypts!

Svetlana Meyer

November 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Desirable difficulties for sustainable learning

One does not learn sustainably without difficulty... provided that it is a “desirable difficulty”!

Alice Latimier

September 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Learning to learn in order to be better trained

Learning to learn is an essential skill for learners. Understanding your cognitive functioning better is one of the essential ingredients for sustainable learning.

Léa Combette

November 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

Motivation, concentration, attention : 3 leviers indispensables pour un apprentissage réussi

Trois notions souvent confondues les unes avec les autres ! Apprenez à les distinguer pour identifier les freins à l'apprentissage et mieux vous mobiliser.

Léa Combette

November 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

The spacing effect or how to ensure sustainable learning

A training presented repeatedly and spaced out over time is better retained and better controlled than the same training presented in a massed manner.

Nawal Abboub

October 2024

Cognitive sciences & pedagogy

L’illusion de maîtrise, un danger pour l’apprentissage

Les sciences cognitives nous permettent de prendre conscience que juger de son propre niveau de maîtrise de compétences est très difficile. Nous vous expliquons pourquoi.

Laure Duchamp

November 2024