Sabine Gysi

Editor in Chief, BOLD

Sabine Gysi has a background in online communications strategy, program development, and culture management. After working for a multinational company, an agency startup, a think tank, as well as media outlets 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 has been dedicated to conceptualizing, operating and developing BOLD, the Foundation’s Blog on Learning and Development as its founding Editor-in-Chief. In April 2020, she assumed a Program Lead role at the Jacobs Foundation.

Sabine Gysi

68 Posts by Sabine Gysi

Embracing numbers: They help us navigate the world

Genes, education, and equity: It’s complicated

Lifespan development: the more we know about it, the more complex it seems

A nuanced look into the future with Daphne Bavelier and Amy Ogan

“A machine should be like a personal trainer for learners”

Three years (B)OLD, and still curious

Talks and lively discussions with Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Paul Bloom

Technology to help combat loneliness and isolation

Digital mental health apps: Separating the good from the bad

A long way to go: Learning in the 21st century

Poor sleep affects teens’ development – an easy way to make a difference

How does poor sleep quality affect children’s ability to learn?

How smart is it to go to bed with your phone?

Using daily interactions with e-learning platforms to predict achievement

“Curiosity and openness matter more than diligence and perseverance”

More sensitive people are also more responsive to positive experiences

Neglect in early childhood has deep effects on how body and brain develop

Descendants bear imprints of ancestral traumas

“How can we be lifelong learners if learning happens only at school?”

“Our brain is trying to be plastic most of the time”

“Neuroscientists and teachers need to work together”

“Technology for teaching content is only one aspect of digitalization”

“Digitalization is an opportunity to eradicate inequity in education”

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

How the brain develops, grows, and learns throughout our lives

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”

Let’s be BOLD about learning