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By: Asher Levin
Asher Levin (@MrALevin) is the Director of Inclusion and Teacher of Computer Science at The Nottingham Emmanuel School.
In this recorded lecture, Asher takes us through some key concepts from cognitive psychology and how they apply directly to education. Below Asher has broken down the lecture into segments, so that you can skip right to the topic(s) you’re most interested in! Asher has also provided links to relevant articles or blog posts, where you can read more about each topic.
Knowledge Acquisition
08:00 Cognitive Overload Theory
12:24 Talk Like TED
Knowledge Retention
15:17 Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve and the New Theory of Disuse
18:22 Spacing Effect
19:00 Testing Effect
Developing Understanding
22:34 Benner's Stages of Clinical Competence
Developing Transfer
26:49 Interleaving
31:13 Variation
34:39 Concrete to Abstract Thinking
