The Learning Hub Blog

Teachers regularly design learning experiences with the hope that students will think deeply about new ideas, make meaning, and extend their abilities. Yet students often disengage not because they ar...

Teachers and students often interpret their struggle with content as a sign that something isn’t working. Maybe the directions weren’t clear enough, the task was too complex, or the scaffolds were ins...

Teachers often equate a quiet, compliant, and industrious classroom with learning. Students appear attentive, complete their work, and respond when called on. These contribute to a well-managed classr...

“Most of what we learn meaningfully is not lost but transformed.” — David P. Ausubel, The Psychology of Meaningful Verbal Learning (1963)

When David Ausubel introduced his theory of meaningful ve...