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Blake Harvard

3 months

Incredibly excited to announce my book (published with @RoutledgeEOE and edited by @Inner_Drive ) is now available for preorder in the US and UK. Check out the links below. : ) US UK #aledchat #mcslearn #edchat

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 year

Can we please stop vilifying memorization? Memorizing allows a firm foundation for learning more complex aspects of content. Imagine trying to work complex math problems without having a firm foundation of multiplication, division, etc. #education #learning #teaching #edchat

Prof. Feynman

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1 year

Memorization is not learning. 🧠

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Blake Harvard

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6 years

My students asked me to post all of the answers to the final on twitter. Here they are: A, B, C, D, and E It's multiple choice. There are 100 questions. Good luck.

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Blake Harvard

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5 months

@xanbarksdale @elonmusk Yep. Happens all the time...and then when it refreshes (as it does constantly) I see the same 2-3 tweets all day long.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

11 months

Elementary teachers should be paid more than high school teachers.

Adex

@adexnelsonx

11 months

What opinion about Education will have you like this?

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

6 years

Just ran off copies at the printer for a vocabulary quiz. Needed 94 copies. Without counting, I PLACED 94 PIECES OF PAPER IN THE COPIER. I've peaked for the week at 7:16 on Monday.

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Blake Harvard

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2 years

Enhancing Multiple Choice Qs Some blogs, some research, & a poster Ranking MC Answers … Maximizing MC Effectiveness … Confidence Weighted MCQs … MCQs as a Learning Experience …

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Blake Harvard

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1 year

Again I say, it’s easy to say what should be taught in school…but if you want to teach these things (and some of these are already taught, btw), tell me what we should stop teaching to make room for all of this.

Vic Nixon, Ed.D.

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1 year

What are your thoughts? I like the personal finance.

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Blake Harvard

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1 year

Do. Not. Teach. To. Preferred. Learning. Styles. #mcslearn #edchat #education #teachers #teaching #learn #tlap #ditchbook #learningstyles #educators #teach @usedgov @edutopia @ISTEofficial @czi @teacher2teacher

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Blake Harvard

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5 years

Had my formal observation today...and the technology stopped working. A major reason I was able to carry on with little disruption? I knew my content really well. New teachers, I suggest you focus on knowing your stuff really well before worrying as much about the tech.

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Blake Harvard

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6 years

10 misunderstandings of how we learn. Look at those percentages...yikes. From Understanding How We Learn by ⁦ @doctorwhy ⁩ ⁦ @DrSumeracki ⁩ ⁦ @olicav ⁩

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Blake Harvard

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5 years

Sigh. This really bothers me. For me, the implication is that you can either teach kids the curriculum or care about their well-being. In reality, this isn’t an either/or situation. I teach the kids the curriculum and other stuff. I are about their well-being and that they

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Blake Harvard

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Enhancing Multiple Choice Questions Ranking MC Answers … Maximizing MC Effectiveness … Confidence Weighted MCQs … MCQs as a Learning Experience …

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Blake Harvard

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5 years

"If kids can google it, you don't need to teach it." Also:

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Blake Harvard

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2 years

These two books…if they were in the hands of teachers and universities…would improve education so much. Tough to find a more accessible look at education research and its implications in the classroom. Ready made for individual or school wide professional development.

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Blake Harvard

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7 months

@HeyAbhishekk If you're creating a mind map for learning, the process of creating the mind map is part of the learning. You don't get that if you allow AI to create the mind map for you. Learning requires mental effort/cognition.

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Blake Harvard

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8 months

Anyone telling you direct instruction has no place in the classroom is mistaken. Badly mistaken.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

11 months

Well…just saw this monstrosity on the Twitter. Learning styles, learning pyramid retention rates, and active vs passive learning. Gross. Just say no to all of this.

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Blake Harvard

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6 years

Dear edutwitter, Please, before you tweet statistics about the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of some method/gadget/practice, make sure there is evidence to back your numbers. It may seem harmless or even motivational to tweet something like “if you are talking at your students

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Hosting an 8 year old birthday party right now. Elementary school teachers are vastly underpaid.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

This is what happens when we don't fight the myth of preferred learning styles...the myth grows and morphs into bigger, stronger, more ridiculous myths. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

"Don't ask kids to memorize something they can google." Ridiculously bad advice from a teacher with 150k followers on twitter...something to add to my blog post, "The Most Dangerous Phrases in Education".

The Most Dangerous Phrases in Education - The Effortful Educator

When taken out of context, several popular quotes can be dangerous for the classroom.

theeffortfuleducator.com

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 years

Enhancing Multiple-Choice Questions Ranking MC Responses Interacting with All Responses Confidence Weighted MC Format

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

2 years

Wrote an article for @edutopia : #education #edutwitter #learn #teacher #teaching

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Blake Harvard

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3 years

3 Ways to Enhance Multiple-Choice Questions A. Ranking MC Responses … B. Interacting w/ All Responses … C. Confidence Weighted MC Qs … Poster download:

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 years

The more I think about it, the more I’m astonished how there’s very little to no mention of memory and how humans learn in most Ed school classes. A massive part of teaching/learning is memory…but teachers don’t really know about it at all. Borderline malpractice, really.

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Blake Harvard

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3 years

Well...it happened. I meant to say organism in class...and I didn't.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 year

It’s easy to say stuff like this. The more difficult question to ask, then, is what are we taking out to make all of this fit in the school day?

Dr. Chad LeDune

@Dr_LeDune

1 year

Say it louder!!

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

One thing I'm increasingly noticing with those who propose classrooms of the future...a lack of focus on student learning. More tech? Yes. More innovation? Sure. But very little talk of knowledge acquisition and improving learning conditions. That's a real problem, I believe.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

"Ok faculty, we've had 2 whole hours of professional development on this new initiative...now go implement it correctly in your classroom for the remainder of the school year."

#TXHSFBCHAT🏈

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5 years

This is the greatest field entrance of all time #TXHSFBCHAT

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

2 years

Two myths in one...preferred learning styles and percentages of retention based upon information delivery method. This is the worst.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

2 years

The first two sentences of this abstract…if this were better understood and applied to learning, we’d all be better off.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Teacher Pay Teacher is one idea...School System Pay Teacher is a better one, though, in my opinion.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

4 years

Well...it finally happened...I got this on a questionnaire about my 1st grader:

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

2 years

Gave my son a Rubik’s cube years ago & let him attempt to discover the solution. He never did. Yesterday, he watched a video, took some notes on solving the cube, & completed it for the 1st time. Today, he solved the cube in 4 min. with no assistance at all. Direct > Discovery

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Just heard from a teacher that their school paid 20k pounds for a consultant to deliver a series of sessions...the first day was dedicated entirely to promoting learning styles. A complete waste of time and money. Don’t tell me fighting the myth of learning styles isn’t needed.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

11 months

Wrong. It is by education and learning that we are able to be creative. You cannot be creative with information you do not have.

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“We do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it, or rather, we get educated out of it.”

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 months

I know this is probably contrary to popular edutwitter thought...but a well-written textbook is an incredible instructional tool for teachers and learning in the classroom.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 years

Had the ‘you actually don’t have a specific and/or preferred learning style’ talk with one of my classes today. They seemed shocked.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

4 years

A realization I had this week after starting back to school: Why should I expect my students to understand all of the new tools that accompany virtual learning if I still feel unprepared to use them after hours of training, myself?

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 year

Got about 10 minutes in today’s department meeting to present on a topic of my choosing. I’m pulling zero punches. #learningstyles #learningpyramid #discoverylearning #edchat #education #learning #learn #teach

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

There are only two reactions when a teacher gets a haircut: Student 1, the all-knowing response: 1. "You got a haircut." Student 2, the unknowing response: 2. "Did you get a haircut?" There is no in-between. @NicholasFerroni

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Anyone freak out a bit when you don't know how to spell a word, so you give it your best guess in a doc...then the red line doesn't show up...indicating you spelled it correctly...but you don't believe it...so you change a letter just to make sure spell check it working properly?

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Blake Harvard

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3 years

If you're going to share one tweet today to help a teacher out...I propose it be this: An absolute treasure trove of information for teachers to improve their instruction and learning environment:

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 year

Can we just stop with this nonsense?

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 🎸🏴‍☠️🧩🤖🚀

@Principal_H

1 year

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy. #education #teachers #leadership #sped #autism #teachertwitter

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

6 years

The main purpose of school is to learn stuff. Thank you for coming to my Tedtalk.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 month

I will never understand the vilification of memorization…and don’t get me started on ‘skills’.

Lea Benson

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1 month

You are apparently obsessed with memorizing facts and not actually building skills.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

New Post An "Ah-Ha" Moment with Spaced Practice in the Classroom I was recently given the perfect chance to show my students how powerful spacing practice can be on retrieval of material. … @RetrieveLearn @AceThatTest @P_A_Kirschner @dylanwiliam

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Blake Harvard

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2 years

No. No. No. And, also, no.

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Blake Harvard

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5 years

Just had a student walk into my class hobbling with different bills attached to his shirt. I asked him what he is for Halloween. He replied, "Crippling debt." Wise beyond his years.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 years

Fighting the good fight today.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

4 years

Love them or hate them, multiple-choice questions are an unavoidable aspect of education. I've recently created a poster (see below) and written three articles explaining strategies for improving upon how students interact with and learn from multiple-choice questions.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Encoding, storage, and retrieval.

wisy

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Name a more iconic trio... I'll wait

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4 years

Reminder - The pyramid below is not correct. The statistics are made up. Do not let this influence your teaching. …

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

3 years

Having a quick look back over this book. It is so good. A great starter for teachers and students looking to better understand learning. Highly recommend.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

5 years

Students, You have no idea how much it means when you ask your teacher/professor how they're doing. Sincerely, thanks for checking in on us when you think something seems a bit off. It really means a lot.

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

11 months

Yes they do.

But...We Do Learn from People We Don't Like - The Effortful Educator

The following post first featured on the American Psychological Association’s Psych Learning Curve on August 28, 2017: http://psychlearningcurve.org/learn-from-people-we-dont-like/ In a quite popular...

theeffortfuleducator.com

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Blake Harvard

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3 years

When you see a quote like this, it is very important to look for & ask for a source, a study, and/or research. I know this quote sounds great and it’s quite catchy…but it isn’t true. Teachers read this, believe it, and tailor their instruction. This is potentially harmful.

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Blake Harvard

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7 years

These @books are also awesome for evidence-based reading: #isteTEN #edchat

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4 years

Which stage of teacher r you in? A. Says yes to everything, no matter the cost. B. Says yes to everything, but really wants to say no. C. Says no to some things, but soul crushing guilt overtakes you. D. Says no to some things & doesn't think twice. E. Says no to everything.

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3 years

If you're not talking with your students about the Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, what are you doing? Am I right?

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

11 months

Incredibly excited to announce I am writing a book with @Inner_Drive and @RoutledgeEd . The book title is "Do I have Your Attention?" and centers on memory processing and the impact of selective attention on instructional design and varying learning environments.

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1 year

Absolute banger.

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5 years

Holy smokes...this database of retrieval practice is simply wonderful. Kudos to @RetrieveLearn for putting this together.

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2 years

"We don't need to teach students things they can just google." False.

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5 years

Step one: Don't.

Education Week

@educationweek

5 years

Advice on Choosing a 'Brain Training' Program for Students

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Blake Harvard

@effortfuleduktr

1 year

@MenInBlazers @JeffKassouf Can we talk her into managing the men’s team as well???

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3 years

Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike. #aledchat #mcslearn #edchat

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5 years

The truth is out. Grocery stores aren't needed. We can grow our own food. Once we realize this, the game is over.

Rachel, a Thinker

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@Miss_Snuffy The truth is out. School is childcare and as all adults know, we can all learn outside a school building and without teachers. Once children realise this, the game is over.

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7 months

RIP Dr. Kahneman. Thinking, Fast and Slow is such a wonderful book; really shaped how I think and teach.

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4 years

Many teachers will be tasked with creating instructional videos in the coming semester. Here's some research on how to maximize effectiveness. Five to-dos and one to-don't when creating instructional videos. …

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4 years

This message from my son on my whiteboard makes me so freaking happy.

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6 years

On my board today as the kids walk in. I know I don’t often talk about/write about stuff like this, but I am not a monster. 🙂

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5 years

Ridiculous line of thinking, here.

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4 years

What’s Your Learning Style? A Quick Survey Take a quick survey to figure out your learning style.

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3 years

You can give your first year teacher self one piece of advice...what is it?

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5 years

My son and I love facts that are ridiculously unfathomable...like, even though I believe you when you tell me...I don't believe you. So what have you got? What fact/statistic so difficult to wrap your head around it blows your mind? Impress me (& my 7 yr old son). #scicomm

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3 Ways to Enhance Multiple-Choice Questions A. Ranking MC Responses … B. Interacting w/ All Responses … C. Confidence Weighted MC Qs … Poster download:

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2 years

Make It Stick. First paragraph. 🔥🔥🔥

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6 years

Teachers, I’m not a fan of this statement sat all. Please don’t feel the pressure to ‘perform’ for your students to sell tickets to the lesson. Provide opportunities for engagement? Yes. Feel like you’ve got to entertain? No.

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6 years

How do we rid education practices of myths? -learning styles -the learning pyramid -only use 10% of brain -left/right brain stuff etc. #sunchat

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1 year

Did Dr. Willingham stand in the back of my session today and nod his head a lot? Yes. Yes, he did. #educationfest @EducationFestUS

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4 years

From Tuscaloosa, AL's facebook page:

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6 months

I advocate for explicit instruction. I have encountered an actual child. In fact, I’ve encountered several children. Some might say I’ve encountered ‘many’ children in my 18 years of teaching. Some might say I’ve encountered ‘a lot’ of children, even. Staggering, I know, but

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This image is the reason you have some new system to learn every new school year that will be replaced by a new system next school year that will be replaced by a new system the next school year.

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Myth = "Students know how they learn best." Usually, this is not true. #sunchat

Student Choice, Intuition, and Poor Study Habits - The Effortful Educator

When given the choice, do students choose effective study habits?

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Misunderstanding Retrieval Practice Let's clear up some common misunderstandings about retrieval practice.

Misunderstanding Retrieval Practice - The Effortful Educator

Let's clear up some common misunderstandings about retrieval practice.

theeffortfuleducator.com

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7 years

This has to be the worst...let's mix the learning styles myth with the learning pyramid myth.

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2 years

Just putting this out there: You cannot cognitively multitask. You task switch. You are either thinking about one thing or another. Not both. And there’s a cost associated with switching between or among tasks.

The Illusion of Multitasking and its Impact on Learning - The Effortful Educator

How is the illusion of multitasking negatively impacting students' learning?

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2 years

She’s wrong.

Alice Keeler

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2 years

"There is very little reason in the modern age why students need to be filling out worksheets on paper."

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Honest question, here: Am I the only teacher who thinks online teaching is easier than face to face? I have less to do day to day. I can plan and post info/material further in advance. I teach HS AP classes and I totally understand how this might not be the case with others.

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5 years

People who believe this have never had really good barbecue.

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@UTMBWorldSeries You should be ashamed.

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Simple spaced retrieval practice to review/begin class. Applying learning strategies can make your classroom more efficient and increase retention of material. @AceThatTest @cultofpedagogy @edutopia @MindShiftKQED @APAEducation @PsychScience @TeacherToolkit

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Multiple-Choice Questioning as a Valuable Learning Opportunity Can multiple-choice questions provide opportunities for learning superior to questions requiring recall of information? @dylanwiliam @DTWillingham

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One of my biggest reasons to include retrieval practice in your studying regime: "You'd rather find out you don't know the answer now than find out on the test, when it's too late."

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Don’t feel like you always have to change in the classroom. If you’ve found something that works (and you’ve got proof that it works), go with it. I’m growing tired of the whole “if you’re not doing something new/innovative, you’re not doing it right” narrative.

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5 years

Lecture isn't bad. Bad lecture is bad.

The Modest Teacher

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5 years

Quote this tweet with your most controversial education take.

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I'm currently on day 5 of class with my new students this year. I've been introducing them to retrieval practice and spaced practice while learning their names. Here's how I do it:

Learning Names and Modeling Spaced Retrieval Practice - The Effortful Educator

When and how to I introduce my students to learning strategies?

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4 years

Enhancing Multiple Choice Questions Poster Research and Strategies for Classroom Implementation Download this and other posters here:

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