In an effort to design a course that would satisfy my learning objectives for the course and to try out an “ungrading” approach, I settled on using primary source articles …. I’ve spent the last few weeks reading about reading to figure out how to bridge this gap for students in my course.
There is plenty of research showing the benefits of spaced retrieval and active learning techniques on previously-taught material (1) (2). However, can these strategies also be used to boost self-assessment skills in students? Students with good self-assessment skills are better able to monitor…
In this guest post interview Mike Bell explains how he got interested in evidence-based teaching and provides an overview of his new book “The Fundamentals of Teaching“…
One of our goals as Learning Scientists is to make sure that research is communicated in an accessible but accurate way. Unfortunately, many times science dissemination results in miscommunication and translation such that the original results and message are skewed.
With the COVID-19 pandemic there has been a great deal of discussion about kids learning from videos and through virtual classrooms (like Zoom). Many of these discussions have been around whether kids, especially younger school-aged children, can learn in the virtual environment. Of course, learning from technology is not new…
Is there a difference between memorizing material and understanding material? And if so, shouldn’t educators focus on the presumably better, more wholistic of the two, understanding rather than rote memorization?
