Learning is a process of acquiring knowledge, but more crucially acquiring the habits and tendencies to transfer that knowledge in personally meaningful circumstances.
10 Metacognitive Prompts To Help Students Reflect On Their Learning Read More
Metacognitive prompts can help students reflect on learning by illuminating exactly what their mind is doing during the learning process.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers Read More
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
8 Of The Most Common Sources Of Formative Assessment Data Read More
The usefulness of student data is generally proportional to the frequency with which it’s collected. Here are eight sources of formative assessment data.
6 Powerful Strategies For Deeper Learning In Your Classroom Read More
Deeper Learning is a set of student outcomes that includes mastery of essential academic content, thinking critically, and solving complex problems.
Where Has The Joy Of Learning Gone? Read More
When joy and comfort are absent, students’ brains are distanced from effective information processing and long-term memory storage.
Learning Theories: Adaptive Control Of Thought Read More
ACT-R is a way of specifying how the brain itself is organized in a way that enables individual processing modules to produce cognition.
10 Simple Ways To Engage In Lifelong Learning Read More
Lifelong learning preserves an individual’s desire to obtain new knowledge outside of the formal education system.
4 Things Every Student Should Do Every Day Read More
From asking questions to feeling a sense of progress, here’s a quick list of things that every student should do every day.