This post is by Christopher Dede, the Timothy E. Wirth professor of learning technologies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and Kim Frumin, a Harvard Innovation Lab Doctoral ...

Having spent some time teaching in the schools this past year, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about learning, the different ways we learn, and how our relationship to learning changes over time. As ...

Knowing and understanding are different. On the road to deeper learning, you sometimes find that you’ve gained knowledge while losing understanding. The nature of unlearning reshapes the “learning ...

We love to hail lifelong learners, those stouthearted souls who stay on their growing edges and never let go of their sense of curiosity and adventure, who stick with their passions and purposes come ...

Emotional learning can create strong memories and powerful emotional responses, but flexible behavior demands that these responses be inhibited when they are no longer appropriate. Scientists at the ...

When you study the best-of-the-best, they share a common trait across industries, age, geography, gender, and skill set. Top performers are lifetime learners. Instead of hanging up their studies upon ...

Reflecting on the importance and art of reskilling — learning and unlearning — comes at a timely moment. The Covid-19 pandemic has permitted us to learn how important soft skills are, and, more ...

David E. Lewis ’24 lives in Quincy House. His column “Unlearning Everything” appears on alternate Thursdays. As Harvard welcomes its largest-ever cohort of freshmen onto campus, more students than ...

We know that sleep helps us integrate knowledge acquired during the day. But can we learn new things while sleeping? By exposing subjects to repeated auditory stimuli, a team of researchers has just ...