Hot off the presses! This week I’m telling you about a new study that came out just last month which investigates how we could take generative activities like elaboration and give them the additional benefits of retrieval practice.
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GUEST POST: An Interview with an Elementary School Teacher and Doctoral Student
Quincey Farmer is an elementary teacher and administrator who has taught both domestically and abroad. He is an advocate of data-based instruction and evidence-based approaches. Quincey finds data particularly important as he transitions to a specialized role focused on identifying and nurturing …
Moving Towards Online Teaching: A Reflection
With online teaching becoming a reality for many educational institutions in the coming semester/year due to COVID-19, the questions are what the key challenges in education will be and how to overcome them. An obvious challenge is the transformation of teaching material and delivery to accommodate the online format. However, in today’s post I’d like to highlight three additional challenges…
Multitasking and Selective Attention
When people say they are multitasking, i.e. doing more than one task at the same time, what is really happening is that they are rapidly switching between tasks. When we engage in task switching, several things have to happen.
Digest #147: Making Your Material Digitally Accessible
To boost digital accessibility, the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 came into effect in the UK in 2018. This law requires that all websites for organisations that benefit from public money must be digitally accessible to all users. This law also applies to teaching materials hosted in virtual learning systems in universities such as Moodle and Blackboard…
Warming up the Room: Icebreakers and Cold-Calling to Increase Partcipation
As school is starting this fall, teachers and students are participating in a time honored first day of class ritual: the awkward icebreaker. While students might think they’re a bit cheesy, icebreakers serve several very important roles in class and are an excellent way to start a class.