All in For Teachers
My aunt challenged me to write a blog post about “our crazy family”. My aunt’s challenge made me think of my crazy family through the lens of cognitive psychology. We spend a lot of time together and, because of that shared experience, we have very similar knowledge structures (or schema).
When I talk to adults about metacognition, I begin with a broken vacuum cleaner (a picture of it, that is) and ask, 'What would you do if your vacuum stopped working?’ Someone always says they would kick it, but most people take a more measured approach. They might begin by opening it up to see …
If you regularly read our blog or have utilized the downloadable materials on our website, then you know there is a great deal of research supporting the use of the strategies we discuss, like retrieval practice and spaced practice. These strategies have been around for over a century…
Why might checklists help? First, our memories and intellects are fallible. We suffer from cognitive overload. Second, we’re overconfident. We might skip some steps because we’re confident that we can succeed regardless. Checklists address both problems…
Last week we had an interesting Twitter chat (#LrnSciChat) on the benefits and challenges of teaching students how to code. We thought it would be nice to follow up that Twitter chat with a digest on this topic…
Whether you are a K-12 educator, higher education instructor, or corporate businessperson, you have likely experienced a considerable shift to teaching and learning via video over the past year. During this pandemic, we have all rapidly moved to meeting in online platforms…
