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Even under ideal circumstances, time management can be challenging… Even motivated, dedicated students who did well in high school can struggle to manage their time once they get to university. Students who were able to get to school by 7:30am in high school, maintain good grades,and participate in sports and other extracurriculars suddenly find themselves failing out of their 9:30am biology class because they overslept.
This fall, I’ll be teaching a course in Social Cognition. This course will be pretty different from what I’ve been teaching lately; the content area is not one that I am used to teaching, so I am excited to learn new things in preparation to teach …
This week I had the opportunity to teach a guest lecture for medical students interested in AI in Medicine. In preparing for the talk I was, once again, struck by how challenging learning, and especially learning in medicine, can be.
Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).
Lately, my preschool-aged daughter has been listening to one of her Tonies* that she calls “Positive Hippo”. *For the uninitiated, a Toniebox is a little speaker. They work with special figurines, called Tonies. The kids put a Tonie on the box and it starts playing …
Self-regulated learning is a cyclical process of forethought, performance, and self-reflection that allows a learner to regulate their learning (1). While a number of cognitive processes, particularly metacognitive processes, are involved in self-regulated learning, a learner’s ability to assess and regulate their motivational and emotional state can heavily influence their self-regulation of their learning.
