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"According to an article on Time.com about the best and worst learning techniques, active learning methods (e.g. writing) are far more useful for long-term retention than passive learning methods (e.g. highlighting or underline words). One of the best ways? Surprisingly enough: flashcards, according to research from the Association of Psychological Science." 
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"Do you really know something if you can’t remember it? I had a conversation with a fellow educator on this subject one semester, and we both came to the conclusion that knowledge relies almost exclusively on a student’s ability to remember what she has learned. Proof of knowledge comes from demonstration of knowledge; if you can’t recall a fact, then for all intents and purposes you never learned it. But where does that leave intelligence?"
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post notes that working memory plays a critical role in academic success. There is a detailed section that share the science behind working memory. This section is followed by 10 suggestions on how you could work with your students to increase their working memory. Two of the suggestions are: * Chunking * Interacting images In is likely that we have students in our classes with poor working memory. One of the suggestions is The Automated Working Memory Assessment that they state may be used by a teacher. What would happen if we were able to learn that a struggling students needs to increase their working memory and had tools to assist them to learn how to do this? Would they become more successful? This is a post you may want to share with others in your building.
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"There has been a large body of work in neuroscience, psychology, and related fields offering more and more insight into how we learn. Below are five of the top tips from Barbara Oakley, Professor of Engineering at Oakland University, who has faced her own learning challenges (failing middle and high school math and science classes), and has made a study of the latest research on learning. She is also offering a free online course, Learning How to Learn, which starts August 1 on the Coursera platform with co-instructor, Prof. Terrence Sejnowski, a computational neuroscientist at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you interested in learning how to learn? This post provides 5 tips that may help you. 1. Get enough sleep to de-toxify your brain 2. Outwit procrastination with the Pomodoro technique 3. Use spaced repetition to remember key facts 4. Use recall rather than re-reading to see whether you’ve learned the content 5. Vary learning/studying environment Each of these is explained in more detail in the post. As teachers we are also learners, and it is never too late to become better at learning. Sharing these five tips with our students may help them become better learners. And if this is a topic of interest to you, consider checking out the Coursera course Learning How to Learn that will begin on August 1st.
James J. Goldsmith's curator insight,
July 30, 2014 11:27 AM
Five practical and sometimes infrequently used ideas to enhance learning. |
Brain research has shown that recalling information is one of the best ways to learn. What better way to recall information than to use flashcards. This post, from Edudemic, shares three flashcards apps. It provides information on each, sharing features and providing a conclusion that may lead you to prefer one app over another.
Share this information with your students. Consider challenging them to create a set of flashcards that others could use to review.