Educational Pedagogy

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine highlights the dynamic process of learning throughout the life span.

This presentation highlights the findings of that report, quoted directly from the report.

https://www.downes.ca/post/68693

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Science is constantly changing, and although we’ve come a long way since the days when it was widely believed that older people couldn’t learn new things, a number of learning myths have stood the test of time despite having no grounding in scientific research.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Bloomin' critical thinking tools for everybody! Check out these options to help students foster critical thinking skills with Bloom's Taxonomy.

Via Ariana Amorim

Guy Claxton is professor of education at Bristol University, and author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (1997). Among other concepts, he is interested in how people learn.

And so are we, so that’s awfully convenient.

Over at teachingexpertise, they recently overviewed Claxton’s work, including four “new Rs”:

“Resilience: ‘being ready, willing and able to lock on to learning’. Being able to stick with difficulty and cope with feelings such as fear and frustration.
Resourcefulness: ‘being ready, willing and able to learn in different ways’. Having a variety of learning strategies and knowing when to use them.
Reflection: ‘being ready, willing and able to become more strategic about learning’. Getting to know our own strengths and weaknesses.
Relationships: ‘being ready, willing and able to learn alone and with others’.”

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Deliberate practice is your highway to becoming an expert. It is the fastest way to become really good at things. If you want to become great, you need to learn how to practice deliberately. But there is a problem…

Deliberate practice is not easy. It is not something you were born with. Deliberate practice is effortful activity that can be sustained only for a limited time each day and exhaustion must be avoided.

The goal of deliberate practice is not to be enjoyed, the only goal is to improve your performance.

Via Ariana Amorim