All tagged interleaving
About 8 years ago (seriously, I can’t believe we’ve been doing this for so long…), we published a pair of blog posts on understanding both near and far transfer (Part 1; Part 2). Transfer is one of my favorite topics, in part because it is arguably the whole point of most formal education. The purpose…
Interleaving is the idea that, while learning, we will learn more if we jumble up our review of similar materials, rather than reviewing one concept at a time in a blocked format. One thing that we’ve heard from educators is that they worry interleaving can be too challenging for students and that students need some blocking first.
If you use edtech in your classroom, you’ve probably seen at least one of the tools you use recently advertise their brand new “AI feature.”
At Podsie, the core of what we’re building has always been research-driven, so as the AI hype rages on, …
We have a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Our newest book, Ace That Test: A Student’s Guide To Better Learning is coming out this summer—July 19 to be exact. You can preorder here. We are SUPER excited about this one! It’s a brief book written for students—young adult and adult learners—with many …
In today’s post, I am sharing an experiment published by Doug Rohrer, Robert Dedrick, and Kaleena Burgess (1) on interleaving in the classroom. I really like this experiment because it was conducted with middle school 7th graders (12 years old) in different math classes over the course of 11 weeks in their math …
As a teacher who has taught English for twenty-five years, I have some thoughts. In my experience, words spelt correctly in spelling tests are often incorrectly spelt in a piece of writing – even in the same week. … If you think about the way that spelling is often tested in primary schools (after some explicit instruction, e.g., in suffix endings (tautology?)) and with spelling lists learned for weekly tests, the method commonly used is a classic example of blocked practice
