Sabine Gysi

Editor in Chief, BOLD blog

Sabine Gysi created her first blog in 2006. Developing and implementing strategies for digital communication soon became the centerpiece of her work as a communications professional. After varied work experiences with a multinational company, an agency startup, and cultural institutions, she joined the Jacobs Foundation in March 2016. Intrigued by the world of science communication and the profound transformation it is currently undergoing, Sabine Gysi is dedicated to conceptualizing, operating and developing this blog on Learning and Development.

Sabine Gysi

44 Posts by Sabine Gysi

How easily someone is disgusted predicts their general moral notions

Acquiring decision-making strategies takes time

What core capacities are uniquely human?

How can we promote our cognitive health?

Encouraging children to work together and to develop their metacognition

“Training is important, but it’s not the whole story”

“Babies’ brains are equipped to handle more than one language”

Maltreatment has long-term negative effects on a productive life

Students exposed to more hardworking peers achieve higher grades

Blaming smartphones, but missing the point

“Morality demands thinking with the head and not the heart”

“Just being around peers seems to encourage curiosity”

Attentive learners’ brains are on the same wavelength

Preschool education can be very effective, but the details matter

“Constantly ask yourself if your students have achieved their objectives”

In Britain, life expectancy of poorest children is 8-9 years shorter

Some children are biologically more sensitive to their environment

“There’s no denying that relying on stereotypes simplifies life”

Some of the most important behaviors are contagious

Play in childhood supports same skills that underlie scientific reasoning

How do certain gene variants shape kids’ development and life outcomes?

Blended learning poised to reshape education in Africa

Kids growing up in poverty struggle to acquire vital cognitive abilities

Technologies can augment learning for children with autism

Understanding adult learning is key to quality in early child development

How to design people’s environments so they can benefit from programs

Two crucial factors in children’s long-term development

Identifying the best learning strategy for each individual child

Socially aware technology may help disadvantaged children learn

To what extent does poverty compromise children’s development?

“Track-based school systems tend to separate students by ethnicity”

DNA variants account for 9% of achievement differences in 16-year-olds

“We need to stop gap gazing”

Increased exploratory behavior in adolescents: risky, yet also beneficial

Almost one in four children experiences developmental or health struggles

Why do number symbols count? Early screening and interventions for math

“Productive Failure produces learning outcomes for the 21st century”

“We can take this powerful mechanism and deliberately design it to learn”

Has educational neuroscience actually had an impact on education so far?

“Self-regulation contributes to economic success and a healthy lifestyle”

What makes an app educational?

“Media literacy is a tool, not a subject in the educational canon”

“Exposure to a prosocial role model shows strong effects”

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