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A teachmeet presentation looking at embedding Robert Bjork's 'Desirable Difficulties' into lessons.
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Storage strength: A general measure of how well learned that item is. Storage strength increases progressively—the more you access that item, the stronger the storage strength gets.
Retrieval strength: How accessible an item of information is at that given moment.
So how does it stick?Could I plan to do this in lessons?
So how does it stick?Why do we remember some things and not others?
Storage Strength
Retr
ieva
l Str
engt
hHigh storageEasily retrieved
My current address
Low storageEasily retrieved
An address I’m on the way to now
High storageLow retrieved
My university address
Low storageLow retrieved
An address someone told me this morning
Testing
• Which study pattern will result in the best test results?
1. STUDY STUDY STUDY STUDY – TEST2. STUDY STUDY STUDY TEST – TEST3. STUDY STUDY TEST TEST – TEST4. STUDY TEST TEST TEST - TEST
Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1885
• Design lessons that had high levels of thinking?
• Reduce cognitive overload?• Ensure new topics that are learnt
develop high storage strength?• Order topics to help the learning of
new information?• Practically implement spacing?• Introduce testing which is low stakes
and fun?• Interleave previous topics in a
manageable way?
How could we simply yet effectively...