Class test 5 Flashcards
“Memory has some similarities to a Google search algorithm”
Creatin associations between what we already know and the newly acquired informaion makes it easier to recall it later.
The Curse of Knowledge
We tend to overestimate how long it’s goint to take someone else to learn something that is a common knowledge to us now. Teachers struggle with this, they dedicate their whole lives to a subject and fail to understand that students don’t have that expertise yet.
It’s important to offer support
-> a woman tapped a common tune with her fingers and expeceted the other person to recognize it
Dunning-Kruger effect
When incopetent people underestimate their skills amd knowledge, thinking they have what it takes to complete a task, which will lead to makinf mistakes and failure
-> there’s always room for improvement and we musn’t think that we know everything
The model of peer instructions by Eric Mazur
Learning process designed to enhance conseptual understanding through active engagement and colaborative work amongst students. It reduces the limitations of traditional teaching and students’s passive in-take of it.
Students’ illusions and misjudegment
Students can think that when one method of learning works for a subject, it will work for other subjects as well.
Every subject has different requirements and need different approaches