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To get better, do the things you’re bad at
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. We can always coast, do the things we’ve done a million times before, but does that offer any growth? We shouldn’t look at the term self-improvement as a negative. To some it implies…
Teaching a subject vs a skill
Some kids spend a decade in the school sports system and learn leadership and management and creativity and analysis. And some learn nothing but how to follow the coach’s instructions and sit on the bench. This has nothing to do with sports (or geography or biology) and everything to do with what we decide we’re…
Sharing: Project based learning should be medium agnostic
If It’s Not Medium Agnostic, It’s Not Project-Based Learning All types of rubrics (not just those created by students) are medium agnostic when the categories and descriptors are focused on learning, no tasks. For example, an excerpt from a poor rubric might read, “The poster includes at least 6 facts about the state and is…
The forgetting curve
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve was postulated in the late 19th century by the German Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. He tested his memory to see when he started to forget things he has learned. After he…
Sharing: Do you have citizens of a learning community, or detainees in a training camp?
Do you have citizens of a learning community, or detainees in a training camp? — The Synapse — Medium Are there classrooms where students are told where and/or how to sit? Police interrogation rooms are like this, of course, but… Are students in any of your schools ever required to have letters of transit to move from one place to another. Yes, we use the more polite…
Sharing: Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say
Taking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say : NPR In the study published in Psychological Science, Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles sought to test how notetaking by hand or by computer affects learning. “When people type their notes they…