All in Digests
A few days ago, we reblogged a portion of Saga Briggs’ blog from InformED where she highlighted the importance of content curation skills. This week for our digest, Saga provides her top 5 resources to help students and teachers curate information ...
There’s a meme that often goes around of a pie-chart showing the main things people learn from group work; by far the largest slice of the pie is “TRUST NO-ONE”. Many students dread group projects. But, you know what? So do many teachers. We dread having ...
Almost a year ago now, Dr. Molly Worthen (@MollyWorthen) posted an opinion piece in the New York Times called “Lecture Me. Really.”. The piece received a lot of praise and criticism from many sources and for many reasons, but the debate focused on ...
The three Learning Scientists do research on learning and memory, but we are also teachers. (In fact, two of us consider ourselves teachers first and researchers second.) One thing we have noticed is that students like to watch videos in the classroom, and ...
Depending on who you ask, multitasking is either a very important “21st century skill”, or a myth. One of us recently had to complete a job reference for a former student that included a question about the applicant’s ability to multitask. And yet, from decades ...
It’s back to school time. Are you ready? Many instructors consider how to encourage their students to be more motivated and engaged when planning their course. It is no surprise that students learn and retain more information when they are motivated and engaged. Some of this ...
