One of my approaches to teaching (and to work in general) is to impose organization and structure for my students. It helps to decrease uncertainties, but it also makes tackling tasks more efficient and manageable…
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Interleaving Is Less Effective When Taking Notes
The study I’m reviewing today took place in the laboratory, but examined a common situation in the classroom that might matter: note-taking. If students are able to take notes while learning, does that change the degree to which interleaving helps them?
FEATURED EDUCATOR: Amber Haven
Amber is a seasoned educator with over 15 years of classroom teaching experience. Since 2018, she has integrated the principles of the science of learning into her teaching practices.
Promoting Far Transfer in Medical Education: An Experiment
About 8 years ago (seriously, I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for so long…), we published a pair of blog posts on understanding both near and far transfer (Part 1; Part 2). Transfer is one of my favorite topics, in part because it is arguably the whole point of most formal education. The purpose…
Interleaving Improves Learning for All Learners
Interleaving is the idea that, while learning, we will learn more if we jumble up our review of similar materials, rather than reviewing one concept at a time in a blocked format. One thing that we’ve heard from educators is that they worry interleaving can be too challenging for students and that students need some blocking first.
GUEST POST: Leveraging AI in a Research-Driven Way: Augmenting feedback during spaced retrieval practice using ChatGPT
If you use edtech in your classroom, you’ve probably seen at least one of the tools you use recently advertise their brand new “AI feature.”
At Podsie, the core of what we’re building has always been research-driven, so as the AI hype rages on, …