Fundamentally, we are all learners and as professionals in education, we are expected to continue learning. This means that the same evidence-based strategies that you seek out for your students can apply to you as well.
All in For Teachers
Student Learning and Assessments in the Age of AI
In May I attended an all-day ‘AI in Assessment’ workshop with a focus on Psychology degrees in Higher Education in London. Researchers from the UK and Ireland shared insights on students’ attitudes on AI, rethinking assessment approaches, and general considerations on navigating technological progress…
Time Management: What is it, who has it, and can you improve it? (Repost)
Even under ideal circumstances, time management can be challenging… Even motivated, dedicated students who did well in high school can struggle to manage their time once they get to university. Students who were able to get to school by 7:30am in high school, maintain good grades,and participate in sports and other extracurriculars suddenly find themselves failing out of their 9:30am biology class because they overslept.
Flipped Classrooms and Academic Achievement
This fall, I’ll be teaching a course in Social Cognition. This course will be pretty different from what I’ve been teaching lately; the content area is not one that I am used to teaching, so I am excited to learn new things in preparation to teach …
Thinking is Hard (repost)
This week I had the opportunity to teach a guest lecture for medical students interested in AI in Medicine. In preparing for the talk I was, once again, struck by how challenging learning, and especially learning in medicine, can be.
Retrieval Practice vs. Worked Examples: When to Use Which
Today I’m reviewing a study that directly compared two effective learning strategies (retrieval practice and worked examples) on their usefulness for generalizing knowledge (transfer).