Interviews with Learning Scientists

"Can 10,000 hours of practice make you an expert?"

Benefits of mediation. We experienced this a bit in class last week, good to see that it has some effects :)

Here is an example how technology used to make learning math experience fun.

For our motivation discussion next week. 

Yes, I agree repetition and passive demonstration may not have as much impact as active exploration. I recommend using these approaches for factual learning or things that require recall. But, for deep learning, other approaches such as problem based learning offer much better results.

SRI International research examines many of the topics we cover in class on learning sciences. Worth to check.

Here are the Ignites from last year's class.

A concept map example

"OECD's PISA: A Tale of Flaws and Hubris"

We might explore some of these together in class.

Famous article by Nicolas Carr. What do you think?

Worth to read: Ho do we develop gender stereotyped preferences.

The results are important but I want to see the same experiment conducted on babies.

Sharing the tweets with #FiveWordEdTechHorrors hashtag. Fun to follow.

I am curious about what you think on this. Do you agree?

A virtual crash course in design thinking.