An interesting debate has taken place in the past decade over whether learning materials should be aesthetically appealing to promote learning. This debate has made me think much more deeply about how I prepare my own handouts…
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GUEST POST: The Memory Palace: How to Remember Just About ANYTHING
My abysmal ability to recall things sparked my fascination with memory…. The memory palace technique is used pretty commonly by memory athletes, people who compete in memory competitions. The memory palace technique is simply a metaphor for any well-known place you are able to visualize clearly in your head.
GUEST POST: Reading From Screens Compared To Paper: What Are The Differences?
Reading from screens instead of paper has become increasingly more popular in recent years. There are a lot of advantages to reading from screens. It’s convenient as your reading material is easily accessible from multiple electronic devices…
GUEST POST: How to Use Humor in Order to Teach and Learn More Effectively
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 …
GUEST POST: Who Benefits More From Peer Feedback: The Giver or the Receiver?
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.
GUEST POST: An Interview with a physician who created an app that employs evidence-based learning principles
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.