What's Your Learning Style? A Quick Survey - The Effortful Educator Take a quick survey to figure out your learning style.

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What’s Your Learning Style? A Quick Survey
Take a quick survey to figure out your learning style.

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a man in a suit and tie is laughing and saying `` no comment '' while sitting at a table . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is laughing and saying `` no comment '' while sitting at a table .

Me, thinking about Plato controlling a classroom of 30 middle school students...sure, robots are coming to take teacher's jobs...okay. 🙃

Building Upon A Firm Foundation - The Effortful Educator In building taller buildings, architects and engineers cannot ignore the foundation. In teaching our students, we cannot ignore the foundation.

Some in instructional design underestimate just how much foundational knowledge is necessary for true creativity.

You cannot be creative with information you do not have.

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Prove It To Me (And You) Don't allow students to assume they know something. Make them prove it to you...and themselves.

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Diminishing Student Effort If there's a way for students to take a shortcut when learning, they'll usually take it. I'm not sure they understand how that shortcut negatively impacts learning long-term.

1) Although my #Saturday3 is usually the written word, this short video from @blakeharvard.bsky.social caught my eye. The tagline "If there's a way for students to take a shortcut when learning, they'll usually take it" is an important message!

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Diminishing Student Effort If there’s a way for students to take a shortcut when learning, they’ll usually take it. I’m not so sure they understand how that shortcut negatively impacts learning long-term. Here’s a short video where I explain how I talk with my students about this, including some useful analogies, to help them to see that the mental effort is worth it in the long run.

If there’s a way for students to take a shortcut when learning, they’ll usually take it.

More cognitively effortful studying often leads to better learning outcomes.

Don’t cheat yourself by offloading the thinking.

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Diminishing Student Effort If there's a way for students to take a shortcut when learning, they'll usually take it. I'm not sure they understand how that shortcut negatively impacts learning long-term.

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A Great Day Of Teaching...Or Was It? - The Effortful Educator How do you know when you've had a great day of teaching?

Food for thought, teachers:

A Great Day Of Teaching…Or Was It?

How do you know when you've had a great day of teaching?

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Pumping the Brakes on Innovation - The Effortful Educator Sometimes innovations aren't very...innovative. What makes an innovation in education worthwhile?

Pumping the Brakes on Innovation

Sometimes innovations aren't very...innovative. What makes an innovation in education worthwhile?

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Teacher Thoughts #3 What is the Ikea effect and are you letting this bias derail your instruction?

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Teacher Thoughts #2 I am begging the internet to stop using this popular quote about relationships out of context.

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A Teacher's Thoughts #1 On how many student's understanding of studying is flawed...and a conversation we can have with them to help them improve.

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Maximizing the Effectiveness of Multiple-Choice Qs - The Effortful Educator A simple and adaptable activity that maximizes the effectiveness of multiple-choice questions.

Looking to get more thinking out of multiple-choice questions? Use this simple and adaptable activity.

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Relationships and Learning: Clarification on a Popular Quote - The Effortful Educator How important are relationships on learning? Depends on what you mean by relationship.

“No significant learning can occur without a significant relationship.” – Dr. James Comer

An incredibly common quote in education...but it is usually used incorrectly. Read below to find out what sorts of relationships Dr. Comer was actually taking about.

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Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall - The Effortful Educator Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom?If so, how do they negatively impact students?

Attention Contagion in the Lecture Hall

Are inattentive behaviors contagious in the classroom? If so, how do they impact students?

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Three Practices to Avoid in the Classroom - The Effortful Educator No matter your subject or student's level, here are three practices to avoid in the classroom.

Three Practices to Avoid in the Classroom

No matter your subject or student's level, here are three practices to avoid in the classroom.

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Remembering What It's Like To Be A Student - The Effortful Educator Place yourself back in the student's seat and remember what it's like to be the learner. You'll be a better teacher for it.

Remembering What It’s Like To Be A Student

Place yourself back in the student's seat and remember what it's like to be the learner. You'll be a better teacher for it.

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Multiple-Choice Questioning as a Valuable Learning Opportunity

Can multiple-choice questions provide opportunities for learning superior to questions requiring recall of information?

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The Illusion of Multitasking and its Impact on Learning - The Effortful Educator How is the illusion of multitasking negatively impacting students' learning?

The Illusion of Multitasking and its Impact on Learning

How is the illusion of multitasking negatively impacting students' learning?

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The Illusion of Multitasking and its Impact on Learning - The Effortful Educator How is the illusion of multitasking negatively impacting students' learning?

The Illusion of Multitasking and its Impact on Learning

How is the illusion of multitasking negatively impacting students' learning?

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Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.

Doesn't matter that I teach AP students. Generally speaking, they don't know how to study.

Today, we're going back to the basics of flashcards. So powerful for learning when done correctly.

Don't make learning more complicated than it need be.

The Dangers of Feelgoodism in Education - The Effortful Educator Just because a catchy educational quote or image makes us feel good (or confirms our already established beliefs) doesn't mean it is based in fact or logic.

The Dangers of Feelgoodism in Education

Just because a catchy educational quote or image makes us feel good (or confirms our already established beliefs) doesn't mean it is based in fact or logic.

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