Very frequently, I give writers (my students) the advice that they should read their work out loud while revising. I give this advice because it helps me to catch errors in writing, but I did not have evidence to back up my advice… until now.
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Very frequently, I give writers (my students) the advice that they should read their work out loud while revising. I give this advice because it helps me to catch errors in writing, but I did not have evidence to back up my advice… until now.
What do you think of when you hear the word “reflection”? Introspection? Done in the moment or retroactively? Something done by yourself or with others? Reflection, as a pedagogical strategy, is utilized widely in education. It is a critical component of many educational theories, especially Transformational Learning.
For today’s VLOG post, Cindy interviewed Jessica Jackson, Director of Professional Learning for the Learner Variability Project @DigitalPromise. In this video, Jessica talks about the concept of learner variability and walks through all the fun tools available through the Learner Variability Project.
Every student comes into class with some type of prior knowledge which influences how well they will learn material. The more prior-knowledge they have, the more they will be able to learn. A recent paper by Witherby and Carpenter (2021) neatly summarized this effect in a set of experiments.
A few weeks ago, Megan wrote about the benefits of spaced retrieval practice on long-term learning and transfer of course material. The researchers have again shown the benefits of spaced retrieval practice, but this set up was a little different
Hi, I’m David Handel, MD. I‘m the CEO and co-founder of iDoRecall.com. I’ve had the honor of writing previous guest posts on this blog in the past (see this post, for example). In today’s guest post, I’ll be sharing more about iDoRecall, highlighting exciting new free resources that are available …