david fawcett - why can't students remember? - pedagoo london 2014
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My presentation from Pedagoo London 2014 looking at why students forget what we've taught them and how we can use cognitive science principles to counteract this.TRANSCRIPT
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A different way of thinking?
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Working Memory
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Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1885
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• Design lessons that had high levels of thinking?
• Reduce cognitive overload?• Ensure new topics are learnt with
high storage strength?• Order topics to help the learning of
new information?• Practically implement spacing?• Introduce testing which is low stakes
and fun?• Interleave previous topics in a
manageable way?
How could we simply yet effectively...
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