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[Darren Leslie @dnleslie]

Research informing this thread:

Alfieri et al. (2011):
https://t.co/7PNFiWziWo

Sweller and Cooper (1985):
https://t.co/PWMCOEglGu

Kalyuga et al. (2003):
https://t.co/rcnqygltZ1

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[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

🕰️ We all think we can finish that long and boring task in half the time, don’t we?

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[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

Happy Mean Girls Day!

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

To understand spiral curricula, spaced repetition, and the difference between these things, it helps to visualize the corresponding forgetting curves.

In the default mode of instruction, large groups of related material are covered all at once and are not systematically revisited in the future. Students quickly forget what they learn, and their overall retention is extremely low.

By periodically revisiting content, a spiral curriculum periodically restores forgotten knowledge and leverages the spacing effect to slow the decay of that knowledge. This raises students’ overall retention of what they have learned.

Spaced repetition takes this line of thought to its fullest extent by fully optimizing the review process.
-- It precisely calibrates the spacing of reviews so as to maintain a consistently high level of retention and slow down the decay (i.e. stretch out the decay curves) as quickly as possible.
-- Review spacing continually adapts to student performance, expanding in response to good performance and shrinking in response to poor performance.
-- By optimizing the review process to the fullest extent, spaced repetition further raises students’ retention of what they have learned.

However, while spaced repetition is more optimal, it requires an inhuman amount of work from the instructor.

Taken to its fullest extent, spaced repetition requires the instructor to keep track of a repetition schedule for every topic for every student and continually update that schedule based on the student’s performance -- and each time a student learns (or reviews) an advanced topic, they’re implicitly reviewing many simpler topics, all of whose repetition schedules need to be adjusted as a result.

In this view, spiraling can be characterized as “the best an instructor can do” manually while teaching at a group level without the assistance of technology.

Spaced repetition is the optimal solution to maximizing retention, but it is infeasible to perform spaced repetition manually, so spiraling is the next-best option that an instructor can actually perform without the assistance of technology.

[Michael Pershan @mpershan]

Good write up of this study!

[Dr. Catlin Tucker @Catlin_Tucker]

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[Derrick Roberts @MrRobHistory]

Following on from my previous poster, some examples of simple but highly effective retrieval practice tasks

[Richard Wheadon FCCT @RichardWh84]

The reposts and likes have motivated me to push on especially from the authors themselves thanks @C_Hendrick and @P_A_Kirschner, Also a shout out to @MrMetacognition and @AlexJQuigley whose recent books helped me turn the research into practice for the metacognition page

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[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

To start the year strong, schools must first ensure teachers have the support and resources they need. Next, create a positive environment that values their contributions. Finally, give them the autonomy to be their best and achieve excellence.

[Derrick Roberts @MrRobHistory]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Think this works

[Derrick Roberts @MrRobHistory]

Which of these do you think would be better to give to students or have on display?

[Derrick Roberts @MrRobHistory]

How can students boost their learning through metacognition? Seven questions to encourage our pupils to ask themselves

[Education Next @EducationNext]

The Education Exchange: Los Angeles Says No More Cell Phones in Class. Imminent phone ban by nation’s second-largest school district could be first domino to fall. https://t.co/z4IoY1hZB6

[Michael Pershan @mpershan]

Michele is right.

[Derrick Roberts @MrRobHistory]

What does excellent teaching look like?