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Effects of feedback in technology-rich learning environments

It’s a question of order

Why Do School Reforms Occur Again and Again?

AI, big Tech and learning styles (one big failure from Google introducing Gemini)

Learning Styles Are More Toxic Than We Thought

New report on how teachers use (or won’t or shouldn’t) use AI in class

Visual noise

Learning to count as a baby?

From experience to meaning...

We know that babies have knowledge of amounts at a much earlier age than, e.g. Piaget thought decades ago, but this study tries to take it a step further. When the researchers let 81 babies watch a video where they were shown pictures of toy cars and toy pigs and listened to someone count out loud before the toys were hidden in a box — similar to an earlier study done in person — the babies looked longer when the box was lifted, and some of the objects disappeared. When there was no out-loud counting and just pointing in the video, the babies became distracted and looked away, similar to the same earlier study done in person.

From the press release:

When Jinjing Jenny Wang embarked on a two-year study to determine whether infants experience any cognitive benefits from watching someone count out loud on screen instead of in…

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It’s never too early to start with… practice testing!

3-Star learning experiences

Paul A. Kirschner & Mirjam Neelen

Let’s begin with our possibly naive assumption that just about everyone would be a fan of easy-to-use but highly effective learning and study strategies. One example of such a strategy is practice testing, aka retrieval practice. In a nutshell, practice testing ‘forces’ learners to recall what they’ve previously learned from memory. Because they actively remember that information – retrieve it from their memory – they can remember it better and longer. There has been a huge amount of research done on this and we know that practice testing is one of the most effective learning/study strategies we know. Soderstrom and Bjork (2015) let us know that “decades of research suggests that the retrieval processes triggered by testing actually changes the retrieved information in important ways” (p 185).

In general, opponents of this strategy in particular, and of research into evidence-informed strategies in general, often…

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