by Dr. Charlotte Forrest | Aug 20, 2018 | Research, Teachers, Tutors, Users
Why you should follow the links…. For Students You’ve sat down to use Get My Grades to learn about a specific topic e.g. Hormones and so you decide to start with ‘adrenaline’, but then you see a link to learn more about ‘the brain’ so you follow it. And from there...
by John Nichols | Oct 24, 2017 | Research, Revision, Teachers, Tutors, Users
In the third installment of our ‘How Does Learning Work?’ blog series, the Get My Grades Team is going to take at look at the different types of memory and how they affect how we recall what we learn. There are 2 main types of memory that we need to consider: ‘Working...
by John Nichols | Oct 12, 2017 | Education, Research, Teachers, Tutors, Users
In the next instalment of our ‘How Does Learning Work?’ blog series, the Get My Grades Team is going to take a look at ‘Attention’ and how it plays a part in how we learn.Before looking at learning we should look at cognition – the process of thinking. Effective...
by John Nichols | Sep 8, 2017 | Education, Research, Teachers, Tutors, Users
In this blog series, the Get My Grades Team is going to take a look at look at Basic Psychology when it comes to How Learning Works. Some of the neuroscience around learning. Information or ideas that are often associated with each other become linked together in the...