Week 3 discussion-Group 6 by Maren Hilbig

Principle 2- How do students learn and retain new information?

6happyhilbigs — 2025-09-04 05:27:15 UTC

This interests me.... I struggled with this as a college student. I felt high school was easy so I didn't need the skills. But college was different. I wish I had used active learning strategies such as chunking, spacing, and linking. Making patterns always helps my brain. Also, making things into songs, or pneumonics, is great! I really want to get good with AI tools that can take content and make retrieval practice cards for fast practice.

Principle 5 - What motivates students to learn?

a02343399 — 2025-09-04 17:25:47 UTC

This one really caught my eye. I already somewhat knew a bit of what motivates students but this went into it in a bit more detail and I loved it. It is honestly true though, students will be more motivated if they feel like they belong. If a student feels as though no one every listens or takes what they say into consideration then their motivation to keep working and being involved in the work will decrease. To help them feel motivated, teachers need to make sure they give students good feedback and make sure that what they say matters. Having one on ones with each student is another way of keeping them motivated because this will allow them to say what they are feeling in a safer environment and know that what they say is actually being heard.

Principle 3 - How do students solve problems?

magscrandall — 2025-09-07 20:15:20 UTC

This was the one that stood out to me the most because of my experience in high school. I feel like too often my teachers would give me endless assignments and grades without any way to increase my grades. Even when I went to them in person to ask for clarification, I rarely got any help feedback that would help me understand the assignment. This principle of making sure students understand what they've done wrong and how to fix it is incredibly important in my opinion. I also think that give students time and opportunity to fix their mistakes is vital. To often teachers have strict due dates and no way to fix a bad grade. I think that incorporating a way to give students good feedback and way to fix mistakes is so important when thinking about how students learn. Mistakes are useless if we aren't will to learn from them.