What makes learning stick? by Diana Foster https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg snippets of advice! en-us 2016-09-13 14:56:37 UTC 2025-12-23 18:37:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Are easy quizzes better?  echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131821716 Hint: making it harder to retrieve deepens learning. 
This is called 'Desirable difficulties' ]]> 2016-10-19 15:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131821716 Why breaking stuff up is better... echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131822053 Shorter is better...!
Which is easier to remember: TVFBIJFKCIAIBM …or …TV FBI JFK CIA IBM? -  here's an article I wrote earlier... ps it's all about cognitive overload!]]> 2016-10-19 15:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131822053 Why quizzes work echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131831818 Because we love being challenged?Because we like to be 'right'? 
Because it challenges our 'illusions of competence" - i.e we think we know more than we do.
Hint: it's because every time you're forced to remember, deepens learning = retrieval deepens learning]]> 2016-10-19 15:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131831818 Why we need signposts and structure echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131833229 Engaging learners is about making clear why they should bother doing it.  It’s the ‘what’s in it for me’?
So put yourself in your learner’s shoes:
  • Make the purpose clear – the ‘what’s in it for me?’ – to engage and motivate (selling it to them)
  • Structure  – the order of what is most important/ needs to be first? Is it easy to grasp?
  • Clear signposting create a mental map' – is the path clear? does the learner know where they are going next? 
  • Cut jargon (asset, pre-test) ‘Check what you know’ – gives the purpose
  • Present as simply as possible – reduce cognitive load
  • Add introductions (sentence/pages) to give purpose, explain what they will do, why, how long it will take
  • Take away - hide unnecessary bits
  • Humanise – tone of voice
]]> 2016-10-19 15:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131833229 What's the most engaging? Video?  echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131835776 Think video is soo engaging? But it's interaction that engages - here's the evidence...]]> 2016-10-19 16:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131835776 White space and readability online echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131840921 and chunking helps reading...]]> 2016-10-19 16:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/131840921 How Peer instruction engages echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/132664640 Peer instruction = students teaching each other.
Makes large lecture classes much more interactive.  This should be used with care as novice learners "find minimally guided discovery activities cognitively overwhelming..."
(Kirschner, Sweller, & Clark, 2006; Mayer, 2004)
See a 2 min guide to how or for the evidence, an article: 
]]> 2016-10-24 12:32:05 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/132664640 Why we think we know more than we do echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/132950192 Beware the 'illusions of competence" - i.e we think we know more than we do. You read and re-read and feel you know - but you don't. Learning needs to be applied or transferred to new contexts to be effective. ]]> 2016-10-25 10:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/132950192 Why 'learning styles' is bunkum echodiana https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/133074202 Evidence to show it's just not the case...]]> 2016-10-25 16:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/echodiana/4yx2ah1l62pg/wish/133074202