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"Think you know the best way to study? Better test yourself. By Daniel Simons, on January 25th, 2011 Imagine you're taking an introductory psychology class and you have to study for your first test. You've read the assigned text, and now you three more days to prepare. What should you do? 1. Re-read the text once more each day 2. Spend each day studying the text to identify critical concepts and the links among them 3. Quiz yourself the first day, reread the text the second day, and quiz yourself again the third day Do you think you know the answer? Students in my introductory psychology class regularly come to my office hour after failing the first exam to ask what they did wrong. Some even claim to have spent hours re-reading the text, highlighting important concepts, and even taking notes. Where did they go wrong? In The Invisible Gorilla, Chris Chabris and I argue that these students fell victim to the Illusion of Knowledge-they thought they had a deeper understanding of the material than they actually did. But why did they have that mistaken intuition? The answer seems to be that they mistook familiarity and fluency for real understanding. The same principle explains why you might think you know how a toilet works when all you really understand is how to work a toilet-your familiarity with using a toilet leads you to the false impression that you know far more than you actually do. What's most remarkable about the illusion of knowledge is how easily we can overcome it. What's most disturbing is how rarely we actually do. To determine whether you have genuine knowledge about toilets, just ask yourself a few diagnostic questions and force yourself to answer. For example, how does water fill up the bowl? What causes the water to leave the bowl? Why does water leave the tank? Each time you can produce the correct answer, ask yourself a slightly deeper, next-step question. Eventually, you will reach the limits of your knowledge. You'll

an idea for 2011, students design lesson tutorials as a resource for classmates.  

To be used with PBS video.  This article talks about research that claims animals can't "think into the future" and refutes it with examples.  Would absolutely use this as examples for providing "evidence" to support/refute claims.

how teaching social skills boosts academic acheivement

Blog explaining this twitter hashtag.

Levels of Mastery  To know of or to have heard the concepts  To know and really understand the concepts To be able to do on your own very well To do continuously very well over time (and show improvement) 教える / To be able to do and to teach it well to others

How to use embedly to do as the title says, embed just about anything.  This blog includes a tutorial for how to use embedly with wordpress (me)

Wow, that's all, just wow.

This blog discusses the importance of PLNs and counters the PD argument that so often arises when teachers are asked to learn a new skill. It also provides concrete strategies for using Twitter.

another post re: students creating tutorials.  Def. want to do this with classes.

a resource of resources to go to for tech help and tutorials.

Love this idea as a way of incorporating blogging, thinking and Diigo. I would like to use this next year as a way to help students to become independent and self directed. They could choose the writing they wanted to focus on, comment on articles, research. Hmm...