Greg, @greg_ashman, is a teacher and PhD candidate in Australia.
Weekly Digest #11: Revisiting Standardized Testing
As Learning Scientists, we clearly support testing (or retrieval practice) as a means of promoting student learning. We have included blogs about the value of standardized testing, the pushback from parents and teachers, and even systemic issues discussed ...
Feedback: How to Get it and Use it
Earlier this week, we put together a digest of resources for teachers on how to provide good quality writing feedback. But feedback is pointless if students don’t actually use it to improve their work! As a student, you may think that “feedback” only comes ...
GUEST POST: Publish or Perish... or Reinvent The Square Wheel?
It’s hard to let ideas go - incredibly so. But one important goal of science, of philosophy, of academia, is to open up pathways to discover true knowledge. Conflicting ideas are useful because every idea that is falsified will lead society one step closer to ...
Weekly Digest #10: How to Grade Writing Assignments
As the spring semester wraps up, the grading tends to pile up. As college professors, we’ve noticed that we spend a lot of time grading papers, and we worry about whether the time we put into providing feedback really helps our students learn. We discussed ...
Be Your Own Teacher: How To Study With Pictures
Hey! Let's play a little game. Read the two sentences below:
A. Lar gibbons have white fur around the perimeter of their faces.
B. Mandrills have blue, red and yellow coloring on their faces. ...