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How reasoning, judgment, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach.

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Corbin, J. C., Reyna, V. F., Weldon, R. B., & Brainerd, C. J. (2015). “How reasoning, judgment, and decision making are colored by gist-based intuition: A fuzzy-trace theory approach.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 344–355...

The relative benefits of learning by teaching and teaching expectancy

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Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer (2013) found that students who prepare to teach a concept outperform those who just study the material, and those who actually teach the lesson develop a deeper and more persistent understanding of the material as...

Leveraging asymmetry in student's prior knowledge through peer learning exercises

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Salil Vadhan, Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Lead PI on Harvard’s Privacy Tools Project, teaches COMPSCI 120: Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations, a new introductory course in theoretical computer science...

Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH)

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See more of Bottino’s work at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH), which also hosts a summit and the i3 Innovation Challenge to further encourage students’ creative entrepreneurship.

Social Learning and Social Entrepreneurship Education

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This program study using social theories of learning to develop best practices for entrepreneurship education found that respecting learners’ identities and making them feel safe in the community of practices is critical to program success.

Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

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Bottino bases some of his pedagogical approach in Pentland’s Social Physics, which discusses how people learn more from being exposed to a greater variety in actions, not simply a greater variety in how people claim they will act.

Encouraging learning by creating alongside diverse feedback

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Paul B. Bottino, Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Lecturer at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, offers Start-up R&D to undergraduate students across disciplines who are interested in the field and have a particular project idea in...

Establishing a rigorous and invigorating classroom

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Robert Reid-Pharr, Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of African American Studies strives to create a “rigorous but not frightening” classroom experience

Using a student cohort to test and innovate new training materials

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Tyler Giannini and Susan Farbstein, Clinical Professors of Law, pull back the curtain on pedagogy for students in the seminar Advanced Skills Training in Strategic Human Rights Advocacy by making them part of a learning community and giving them ownership...

Enriching learning through student-led provocation

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Though Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Lecturer on History and Literature, Public Policy, and Education, plays an integral role in class discussions for his course Stories of Slavery and Freedom, students are responsible for leading the majority of classes...