The mind as a natural information processing system Greg Ashman ends his blog Do not think of a white bear saying that …knowledge in long-term memory is much more than a metaphorical set of books in a library. We use it to think with. We use it to direct our attention. Although most of the …
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De lat moet hoog Er is een onmiskenbare tendens – niet alleen in Nederland maar in veel andere landen – de lat in het onderwijs steeds lager te leggen. Je hoort bijvoorbeeld nogal eens dat cijfers demotiverend zijn, dat meedoen en proberen even belangrijk (zo niet belangrijker) is als presteren en dus ook beloond moet …
Soms is ‘gewoon weten’ genoeg Ik heb in 2015 een blog geschreven over De Nut van Nutteloze Kennis. Deze nieuwe blog is een, onbedoelde, vervolg daarop. Hoewel dit voor sommigen misschien ketters klinkt, kun je sommige kennis nuttig gebruiken zonder dat je het echt ‘begrijpt’, d.w.z. het op conceptueel niveau snapt. Soms is weten (ook …
Nog Vijf Gebruikelijke maar Twijfelachtige Multimediaprincipes Deze blog is een iets andere blog dan mijn column die verschnenen is in het januari/februarinummer van Didactief. In 2016 schreef ik voor Didactief een blog/column Tien Gebruikelijke maar Twijfelachtige Multimediaprincipes. Die ging over een hoofdstuk in de Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2e editie) onder redactie van Richard …
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Retrieval Practice and Processing Load We all know by now (I hope) that for real learning, retrieval practice trumps just about all other learning and study strategies. But how does this affect processing load? The Learning Scientists recently published a blog about a piece of research on this topic. Megan Sumeracki writes: If you read …
Recently I came across this work from Koichi Sato at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (his coordinates are at the bottom). I found it so clear and helpful that I asked him if I could work it into a blog and I’m happy to say he agreed. I took the liberty to add a few things, …
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You often hear that active ‘doing’ (pupil-centred) is better than ’telling’ (teacher-centred) and that this is even more important and more ’true’ when it comes to younger children. Unfortunately, this new study at the University of Bath shows that storytelling — the oldest form of teaching — is the most effective way of teaching primary …
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Here’s a really clear and useful blog by David Rodger-Goodwin on David Ausubel’s Advance Organisers. The Situation – Expert teachers create and maintain, almost automatically, complex networks that link concepts, ideas and facts within their domain which students don’t have. The Solution – Popularised by the psychologist David Ausubel (1968), advance organisers provide the conceptual framework for …
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You’ve often heard from me about the problem that I have with using both self-report as a measure when doing research as well as using teacher-report as a measure. My reasons are simple, namely that such reports are subjective and not objective and that they are usually neither valid nor reliable. These two problems are …
By: Em. prof. dr. Paul. A. Kirschner, Editor-in-Chief, Open University of the Netherlands / Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, and Dr. Jeroen Janssen, Associate Editor, Utrecht University, Netherlands The science of learning and instruction is a rapidly evolving field, with a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. It is also sometimes burdened by two …
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