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Humor can have a powerful effect on people; research shows that when people find something funny, they tend to pay more attention to it, and remember it better in the long term (1, 2). Furthermore, humor has an invigorating effect, and can make people feel more interested in what’s going on, and …
I like peer feedback. It gets the students doing the bulk of the work, and ensures every students gets a comment, particularly when I find it hard to get to every student over the course of a lesson… But my colleagues express skepticism about peer review, because of the poor quality of feedback students sometimes give each other, and the challenges of managing peer review activities in the lessons.
David is currently looking to partner with a select group of educators who are interested in free access to iDoRecall so that they can bring evidence-based learning techniques into the classroom and help their students use the tools that underlie iDoRecall to accelerate their academic success. Write david@iDoRecall.com for details.
I can remember my undergraduate days when one of my first thoughts after turning my alarm off in the morning was, “when can I take a nap today?” I wasn’t necessarily staying up too late or pulling all night cram sessions – although that did happen. However, I can look back now and see …
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Sometimes, we use pictures to practice dual-coding. Other times, we use pictures, jokes, fun facts, etc. to provide some much-needed respite. Have you ever wondered the trade-off with your audience’s learning?
In this article, Mike Bell suggests that there is sufficient consensus among those educationalists who look at the evidence to say that we now know how learning happens, why some students struggle and how to improve learning for any learner. By combining lists of effective methods derived from …
