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“Here is the exam. Write your own questions. Write your own answers. Harder questions and better answers get more points.”

“Write a question you wish had been in this exam, and answer it”. As I recall some students didn’t appreciate that opportunity as much as I did.

One result of this strategy is that every student will be correct in their prediction of what will be on the exam. Regardless of which material is actually most important

it may be that the study habits you've honed for a decade or two aren't serving you as well as you think they are.

while last-minute cramming may allow you to pass a test, you won't remember the material for long

research shows that mixing tasks and topics is a better bet.

I quickly figured out how to play that game successfully – success in that case being measured by my being able to solve under exam conditions, problems like the ones the teacher had shown us and we had practiced in class and done for homework.

In fact, you can’t separate real teaching from learning. They are simply two perspectives of the same human interactive process.

For whereas technology can provide instruction and can provide teachers and students with resources to assist them, what is cannot do on its own is teach them.