Education – and higher education – are powerful vehicles for transformative socio-economic change at individual, community and societal levels. The Australian Universities Accord interim report
Category: aiding memory
Chunking as a pedagogy
Chunking involves breaking up new learning into discrete sections in order to avoid cognitive overload, and to promote schema development. Using cognitive science to explain
Learned helplessness and the curse of knowledge
When an educator leaves certain parts out of an explanation because they think that they are understood by their students, they are affected by what’s
Helping students see the value of group work
’People must see the point of thinking if they are to engage in it.’ Kuhn 1999 This is the 14th post in a series titled
6 ways to help learners recalibrate attention in a lecture
Students sitting in a lecture have enormous amounts of extraneous load to deal with. The sheer size of the room means that the distance between
THE POWER OF MAKING CONNECTIONS
”As the student accommodates this new learning into their LTM, then the complexity of the next task can be increased. As Ericsson and Kintsch (1995)
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 