Hello! And welcome to another weekly update on memory and metacognition.I'm so glad that you joined – I love to share information about these topics, and about the science of learning in general. It's great to connect!Memory in educationMemory is a huge focus of what I write about, and I was interested to read this quote by Teaching Toolkit's Ross Morrison McGill:"besides mastering the classroom in terms of subject knowledge and behaviour management, memory is the number one thing all teachers need to know."I agree; whether we focus on skills, facts or concept knowledge, memory is always playing a role. If we are going to teach in a way that learners retain and can use over the long-term, then it will surely be helpful for practitioners to understand how long-term memory works. My goal is to help with this.Two major examples of techniques based on memory principles are the spacing effect and interleaving. I explain both of these, and how they link to metacognition, in this recent journal article. It's a very accessible paper, and I think it would be a great choice for a teaching & learning reading group. Reply to let me know if you need a pdf copy!Interleaving chat with InnerDriveI recently gave a talk on interleaving (see last week's newsletter for a link to the full talk). This sparked a few conversations via Twitter... and eventually led to the following informal chat with Sarah Cottingham and Bradley Busch.You can see it on the InnerDrive Youtube channel here:
Interleaving chat
Interleaving chat
Interleaving chat
Hello! And welcome to another weekly update on memory and metacognition.I'm so glad that you joined – I love to share information about these topics, and about the science of learning in general. It's great to connect!Memory in educationMemory is a huge focus of what I write about, and I was interested to read this quote by Teaching Toolkit's Ross Morrison McGill:"besides mastering the classroom in terms of subject knowledge and behaviour management, memory is the number one thing all teachers need to know."I agree; whether we focus on skills, facts or concept knowledge, memory is always playing a role. If we are going to teach in a way that learners retain and can use over the long-term, then it will surely be helpful for practitioners to understand how long-term memory works. My goal is to help with this.Two major examples of techniques based on memory principles are the spacing effect and interleaving. I explain both of these, and how they link to metacognition, in this recent journal article. It's a very accessible paper, and I think it would be a great choice for a teaching & learning reading group. Reply to let me know if you need a pdf copy!Interleaving chat with InnerDriveI recently gave a talk on interleaving (see last week's newsletter for a link to the full talk). This sparked a few conversations via Twitter... and eventually led to the following informal chat with Sarah Cottingham and Bradley Busch.You can see it on the InnerDrive Youtube channel here: