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Michelle Krill

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

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Wired multitask rewiring brain

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

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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. "
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Harry Harlow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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learning transfer

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  • Wisconsin General Testing Apparatus (WGTA) to study learning, cognition, and memory. It was through these studies that Harlow discovered that the monkeys he worked with were developing strategies for his tests. What would later become known as learning sets, Harlow described as “learning to learn”.
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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"
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