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Michelle Krill

Theory behind Mind Maps - 0 views

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mindmap brain memory

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  • A Mind Map converts a long list of monotonous information into a colorful, memorable and highly organized diagram that works in line with your brain's natural way of doing things.
  • He argues that 'traditional' outlines require that the reader scans the information from left to right and top to bottom, whilst the brain's natural preference is to scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion.
  • He argues that 'traditional' outlines require that the reader scans the information from left to right and top to bottom, whilst the brain's natural preference is to scan the entire page in a non-linear fashion.
  • Michelle Krill on 30 Sep 12
     
    "A Mind Map is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your brain - it is a creative and logical means of note-taking and note-making that literally "maps out" your ideas."
Michelle Krill

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 0 views

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byolms flipped pedagogy peercoaching memory

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  • Interactive learning triples students’ gains in knowledge as measured by the kinds of conceptual tests that had once deflated Mazur’s spirits, and by many other assessments as well. It has other salutary effects, like erasing the gender gap between male and female undergraduates.
  • For his part, Mazur has collected reams of data on his students’ results. (He says most scholars, even scientists, rely on anecdotal evidence instead.) End-of-semester course evaluations he dismisses as nothing more than “popularity contests” that ought to be abolished. “There is zero correlation between course evaluations and the amount learned,” he says. “Award-winning teachers with the highest evaluations can produce the same results as teachers who are getting fired.”
  • Active learners take new information and apply it, rather than merely taking note of it.
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  • From cognitive science, we hear that learning is a process of moving information from short-term to long-term memory; assessment research has proven that active learning does that best.”
  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently.”
  • It starts from his view of education as a two-step process: information transfer, and then making sense of and assimilating that information. “
  • Taking active learning seriously means revamping the entire teaching/learning enterprise—even turning it inside out or upside down. For example, active learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher.
  • Michelle Krill on 17 Apr 14
     
    "Balkanski"
Michelle Krill

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains - 1 views

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Wired multitask rewiring brain

shared by Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Brain activity of the experienced surfers was far more extensive than that of the newbies, particularly in areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with problem-solving and decisionmaking.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Interesting
  • The evidence suggested, then, that the distinctive neural pathways of experienced Web users had developed because of their Internet use.
  • The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind’s filing system. When facts and experiences enter our long-term memory, we are able to weave them into the complex ideas that give richness to our thought.
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      Key fact from the text.
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  • And that short-term storage is fragile: A break in our attention can sweep its contents from our mind.
  • Imagine filling a bathtub with a thimble; that’s the challenge involved in moving information from working memory into long-term memory. When we read a book, the information faucet provides a steady drip, which we can control by varying the pace of our reading. Through our single-minded concentration on the text, we can transfer much of the information, thimbleful by thimbleful, into long-term memory and forge the rich associations essential to the creation of knowledge and wisdom. On the Net, we face many information faucets, all going full blast. Our little thimble overflows as we rush from tap to tap. We transfer only a small jumble of drops from different faucets, not a continuous, coherent stream
    • Michelle Krill
      Michelle Krill on 20 Oct 11
       
      This analogy would be great to use with students.
Charles Black

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Wired Magazine | Wired.com - 1 views

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    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 16 Oct 12
       
      This is scary to think, but very true. The internet is turning us into fast paced people who do not learn things in depth. This could not only harm our learning, but our long term memory if we are not properly storing information.
  • comprehension declined as the number of links increased
  • When the load exceeds our mind’s ability to process and store it, we’re unable to retain the information or to draw connections with other memories.
    • Charles Black
      Charles Black on 16 Oct 12
       
      I think this is another big problem in education - information overload. Students may not be able to remember things quick enough, and so much information is out there online that it can be hard to navigate through it all.
Michelle Krill

Cognitive Perspective in Psychology Videos - Free Educational Psychology Tutorials & Le... - 0 views

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learningstyles memory transfer problemsolving

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  • Michelle Krill on 25 Nov 13
     
    "How we learn, remember, process information, create ideas and solve problems lies inside our brain. In our lessons on cognitive perspective, you'll take a look at all these functions and processes to gain a better understanding of how they occur. "
Michelle Krill

How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies | MindShift - 2 views

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learning memory studyskills studyhabits

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  • Michelle Krill on 13 Sep 14
     
    ""How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens," author Benedict Carey informs us that "most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong" and "rooted more in superstition than in science."
Michelle Krill

Colleges Cutting Lectures, and Costs - The Atlantic - 0 views

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highered competencybased shift

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  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    "Called competency-based education, this new model looks at what students should know when they complete a certain degree, and allows them to acquire that knowledge by independently making their way through lessons. It also allows students who come into school with knowledge in a certain area to pass tests to prove it, rather than forcing them to take classes and pay for credits on information they already know."
  • Michelle Krill on 05 Oct 15
     
    What about the social factor?
Michelle Krill

Instructional Development Timeline - 0 views

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instructionaldesign timeline

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  • Michelle Krill on 23 Sep 11
     
    "The Instructional Development Timeline site offers information and links of key events, people, and developments that relate to Instructional Technology, Development, Theory, Systems, and Design."
Michelle Krill

Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? - 1 views

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memory supermemo software education

shared by Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 11 - Cached
  • SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
  • A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. This pattern has long been known to cognitive psychology, but it has been difficult to put to practical use.
  • SuperMemo is the result of his research. It predicts the future state of a person's memory and schedules information reviews at the optimal time.
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  • Ebbinghaus showed that it's possible to dramatically improve learning by correctly spacing practice sessions. On one level, this finding is trivial; all students have been warned not to cram. But the efficiencies created by precise spacing are so large, and the improvement in performance so predictable, that from nearly the moment Ebbinghaus described the spacing effect, psychologists have been urging educators to use it to accelerate human progress.
  • SuperMemo is a program that keeps track of discrete bits of information you've learned and want to retain. For example, say you're studying Spanish. Your chance of recalling a given word when you need it declines over time according to a predictable pattern. SuperMemo tracks this so-called forgetting curve and reminds you to rehearse your knowledge when your chance of recalling it has dropped to, say, 90 percent.
  • Perhaps the things we learn — words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details — don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for. When it comes to learning, what really matters is how things fit together. We master the stories, the schemas, the frameworks, the paradigms; we rehearse the lingo; we swim in the episteme. The disadvantage of this comforting notion is that it's false.
  • The most popular learning systems sold today — for instance, foreign language software like Rosetta Stone — cheerfully defy every one of the psychologists' warnings. With its constant feedback and easily accessible clues, Rosetta Stone brilliantly creates a sensation of progress.
  • Michelle Krill on 07 Oct 11
     
    supermemo
Michelle Krill

Educating the Net Generation | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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netgeneration educause networkedlearning connectivism

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  • Michelle Krill on 31 Oct 11
     
    "The Net Generation has grown up with information technology. The aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students reflect the environment in which they were raised-one that is decidedly different from that which existed when faculty and administrators were growing up. This collection explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included"
Michelle Krill

How to Deal With Kids' Math Anxiety | MindShift - 0 views

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anxiety math brain

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  • Michelle Krill on 22 Nov 14
     
    "Brain scans of these children also show that when they're in the grip of math anxiety, activity is reduced in the information-processing and reasoning areas of their brains-exactly the regions that should be working hard to figure out the problems in front of them."
Ting Mi

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age - 1 views

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Connectivism

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  • Ting Mi on 17 Oct 15
     
    The article was published in 2004 and it foresee that Connectiviism would be the future of the education. Knowledge and learning has underwent significant changes after the emergence of current technologies. Learners are more likely to move into multiple and unrelated field. Besides formal education at school, informal learning become a more significant aspect and learners acquire knowledge through technologies, communities, work environment. Learning become a long lasting changed state because of the interaction between people and own life experiences.
Michelle Krill

Today's Teens Can Be Adept Multitaskers, Study Suggests - 0 views

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multitasking

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  • Michelle Krill on 14 Oct 14
     
    "A new study conducted by high school students finds that some youngsters do equally well on tasks when moving between their laptops, smartphones and other devices, compared to less media-obsessed teens."
anonymous

Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine - 2 views

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  • Because it disrupts concentration, such activity weakens comprehension
    • Amanda Baker
      Amanda Baker on 20 Oct 11
       
      With all the focus on reading scores on standardized tests, this is not a good sign! Kids need to practice reading critically for comprehension and deeper understanding. That won't happen if they are reading with all the extraneous tasks mentioned here.
  • On the Net, we face many information faucets, all going full blast. Our little thimble overflows as we rush from tap to tap. We transfer only a small jumble of drops from different faucets, not a continuous, coherent stream.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Oct 11
       
      Good metaphor
  • “The current explosion of digital technology not only is changing the way we live and communicate,” Small concluded, “but is rapidly and profoundly altering our brains.”
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 20 Oct 11
       
      Rerouting your neural connections is not necessarily bad, just different.
  • Michelle Krill on 18 Oct 11
     
    "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains"
Eric Millham

eLearning Learning - 1 views

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elearning learningtheory socialcognitive adultlearning

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  • Eric Millham on 16 Dec 14
     
    I came across this online magazine that covers eLearning while looking for information about YouTube as a learning tool. I think it's a good general resource about eLearning and is probably geared more towards the adult/corporate training side of Learning Technologies as opposed to the K-12 education side but could be used either way. I believe it fits well under the Social Cognitive Theory but each individual article may reach into other theories.
nkhosla

Brain based learning - 0 views

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  • nkhosla on 17 Nov 15
     
    Found another video on brain based learning. This video is almost 15 minutes long. This video is about Learning about the brain changes everything by David Rock at TEDxTokyo.
  • klwalter on 18 Nov 15
     
    I found the comments on how we get emotions wrong very interesting. The idea that emotions effect intelligence and memory. How should I as an instructor use that information to provide learning experience to my students?
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