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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

Kagan strategies, different methods to build team work, cooperative thinking and critical thinking

Fascinating section on how Crows are able to "think into the future" in order to problem solve new situations.  

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.

to help me think about how to grade blogs next year

not quite sure about this yet, will need some thinking. Resource that allows you to record and upload audio and pix. How different from others? How protected can I make it?

questions to keep me thinking about my purpose

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...

yes, love this approach, it feels intuitive and what I've been trying to do, feel like I have a better way to start flipping

A website that allows you to create your own meme using the most popular backgrounds. Going to use it for everything this year!

videos from experts on a variety of topics. Great for introducing concepts, self directed learning.

Theory into practice with guiding question and implementation strategies.