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Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong

Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong
Learning through osmosis didn't make the strategies list image courtesy of Flickr user indi.ca Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? Here's what he said. First, think about how you attack a pile of study material. Instead of making an appreciable leap forward with yourserving ability after a session of focused practice, interleaving forces you to make nearly imperceptible steps forward with many skills. Bjork explains that successful interleaving allows you to “seat” each skill among the others: “If information is studied so that it can be interpreted in relation to other things in memory, learning is much more powerful,” he says. There’s one caveat: Make sure the mini skills you interleave are related in some higher-order way. Similarly, studying in only one location is great as long as you’ll only be required to recall the information in the same location. And again, these tips generalize. “Forget about forgetting,” says Robert Bjork. Related:  Module 3 : mémoriserVeille à voir, lire

TEORIA DE AUSUBEL UnB - Maio de 1999, Departamento de Psicologia, Disciplina: Aprendizagem e Ensino, Professora: Raquel A Teoria de Ausubel prioriza a Aprendizagem Cognitiva, que é a integração do conteúdo aprendido numa edificação mental ordenada, a Estrutura Cognitiva. Essa Estrutura Cognitiva representa todo um conteúdo informacional armazenado por um indivíduo, organizado de uma certa forma em qualquer modalidade do conhecimento. O conteúdo previamente detido pelo indivíduo representa um forte influenciador do processo de aprendizagem. Novos dados serão assimilados e armazenados na razão direta da qualidade da Estrutura Cognitiva prévia do aprendiz. Esse conhecimento anterior resultará num "ponto de ancoragem" onde as novas informações irão encontrar um modo de se integrar a aquilo que o indivíduo já conhece. Essa experiência cognitiva porém, não influencia-se apenas unilateralmente. Esse processo de associação de informações interrelacionadas denomina-se Aprendizagem Significativa. Aprendizagem Cognitiva

Ce que l’on doit savoir sur le fonctionnement de la mémoire en enseignement supérieur : l’état de la recherche cognitive Dans un article publié en 2011, la professeure de psychologie Michelle D. Miller résume le développement récent des connaissances sur le fonctionnement de la mémoire qui ont des applications pédagogiques en enseignement post-secondaire. Elle réussit sa synthèse en 5 pages très accessibles. Elle donne deux raisons pour son article synthèse : premièrement, la recherche en sciences cognitives est vaste et complexe, de telle sorte que la façon dont elle a été vulgarisées et appliquée à la pédagogie dans le passé n’a pas toujours été juste, ce qui demande des mises au point;deuxièmement, les connaissances ont évolué rapidement, et ce qui était à la fine pointe hier doit être révisé aujourd’hui. Après une discussion sur l’évolution des connaissances scientifique sur les différents types de mémoire, l’auteure conclut en énonçant 4 recommandations d’applications pédagogiques issues de l’état actuel des connaissances en cognition humaine. Source : Miller, Michelle D. (2011).

Robert Bjork: Remembering, Forgetting, and Desirable Difficulties At this week’s Biology Leadership Conference (#BLC8), we were fortunate to hear a talk given by Dr. Robert Bjork, a cognitive psychologist (UCLA) who conducts research on remembering, forgetting, and desirable difficulties. This is going to be a loooong post, so I’ll allow those of you less interested to skip past this one. For those interested in remembering…forgetting…and desirable difficulties, please click to continue reading… Dr. Bjork gave us a very interesting presentation on his research and the intricacies of our human memory system, which he described as a symbiosis of forgetting, remembering, and learning – a remarkable interaction. - A remarkable capacity for storing information (might as well assume it’s unlimited)- It doesn’t work like a tape or a CD where the more you store, the less room you have. Dr. Dr. Dr. To illustrate, Dr. Dr. Of those options, which do you predict will perform best? Hooboy. So how do we make practice tests that constitute good pedagogy? Dr. Dr.

Au tour des outils TICe maintenant … Voici déjà le troisième volet de nos vidéos sur les rapports entre les TICe et l’enseignement ou mieux l’apprentissage … Enseigner, c’est mettre en place des conditions, des circonstances, des dispositifs dans lesquels l’étudiant, l’élève … pourra apprendre. Rappelons le chemin : à la recherche de cohérences pour pouvoir parler des impacts des TICe, nous avons repris le cadre de l’alignement pédagogique (objectifs, méthodes, évaluation … une des bases conceptuelles aux actuels Learning Outcomes) auquel nous avons ajouté les outils technologiques pour enseigner et apprendre tant leurs influences sur les objectifs (le terrain d’exercice qu’ils offrent et les compétences qu’ils nécessitent) et sur les méthodes sont grandes. Cette considération fondamentale est bien comprise par ceux qui lisent ce blog (enfin, dites-moi), elle commence tout doucement à être pressentie par les formateurs, elle reste largement hors des préoccupations des institutions, citadelles des savoirs. En synthèse :

Les styles d'apprentissage, une vaste rigolade ? Depuis 2010, les articles académiques et grand public se multiplient aux Etats-Unis pour dénoncer ce que certains appellent "l'imposture" ou "l'erreur" des styles d'apprentissage. Non que ce concept ne recouvre certaines réalités évidentes : les apprenants n'apprennent pas tous de la même façon, pas la peine d'être diplômé en psychologie ou en neurosciences pour le savoir; mais ce qui est fortement remis en cause aujourd'hui, c'est l'utilisation faite de cette théorie dans la conception et l'animation de formations, en présence ou en ligne. Les éducateurs sont donc les premiers touchés par la remise en cause de l'importance des styles d'apprentissage. Aucune vérification de la théorie par la recherche Quels sont donc les termes de cette remise en cause ? - Ce qui signifie donc que la théorie des styles d'apprentissage n'est pas étayée par des données objectives issues de la recherche. D'après C. Ingénierie pédagogique : on sait ce qui fonctionne Il apparaît que : Sources : Illustrations

David Ausubel Origem: Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre. David Paul Ausubel (Nova Iorque, 25 de outubro 1918 - Nova Iorque, 9 de julho de 2008), foi um grande psicólogo da educação estadunidense. Biografia[editar | editar código-fonte] Filho de família judia e pobre, imigrantes da Europa Central, cresceu insatisfeito com a educação que recebera. "Escandalizou-se com um palavrão que eu, patife de seis anos, empreguei certo dia. Após sua formação acadêmica, em território canadense resolve dedicar-se à educação no intuito de buscar as melhorias necessárias ao verdadeiro aprendizado. Teorias[editar | editar código-fonte] Segundo Ausubel, a aprendizagem significativa no processo de ensino necessita fazer algum sentido para o aluno e, nesse processo, a informação deverá interagir e ancorar-se nos conceitos relevantes já existentes na estrutura do aluno. Mas o que são organizadores prévios? Para que a aprendizagem significativa ocorra, o autor assinala duas condições essenciais : Notas e referências AUSUBEL, D.P.

Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab - Research Applying Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Educational Practice The primary goal of this research, which is funded by the James S. McDonnell foundation, is to promote learning and memory performance within educational contexts through the investigation of principles in cognitive psychology. Studies address issues of transfer-appropriate and material-appropriate processing between encoding and retrieval. The overlying theme of "desirable difficulties," first introduced by Robert Bjork (1994), is also explored through manipulations in the spacing of learning events and the study schedule produced by interleaving various to-be-learned items, such as English-Swahili translated word pairs or prose materials. Studies have also looked at the effectiveness of similar choices used in multiple choice tests for future test performance as well as the act of generating items when they are presented with missing letters. I. In recent years, we have explored this phenomenon in a variety of ways. II. R.

Developing Good Study Habits Really Works Knowledge is the essence of smart thinking. No matter how much raw intelligence you have, you are not going to succeed at solving complex problems without knowing a lot. That's why we spend the first 20 (or more) years of our lives in school. Robert Bjork and fellow PT blogger Nate Kornell have explored some of the study habits of college students in a 2007 paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review . Of course, guidelines from memory research come from studies in idealized circumstances. To address this question, Marissa Hartwig and John Dunlosky related the study habits of college students to their grade point average (GPA) in a 2012 paper in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review . The students with the highest GPA were more likely to study by testing themselves than the students with lower GPAs. All college students tend to focus their study on upcoming assignments. Finally, the time of day that students study also matters.

Motivation et interaction deux moteurs pour l'apprentissage Petit résumé Nous voilà arrivés à la quatrième et dernière partie de nos séquences vidéos consacrées au mariage entre les technologies et les pédagogies. – Dans un souci de cohérence pédagogique, nous avons tout d’abord proposé notre modèle de l’alignement pédagogique qui complète celui proposé par Biggs avec la mise en évidence des ressources et des outils apportés par les TIC. Ces derniers ont à la fois une influence sur le développement des compétences nécessaires requises dans la société de demain (au travers des méthodes mises en place) et ils nécessitent de telles compétences (quelle formation explicite ? quelle validation ?) – Une deuxième vidéo, après la question fondamentale du « Pour quoi ? – La troisième vidéo a finalement ouvert le débat sur les outils, les écueils du NSD (pas de différence significative) et la réponse apportée par le rôle des méthodes actives pour retirer des valeurs ajoutées des outils mis en place. Motivez-les … facile à dire ! R.M. Viau, R. (1994).

A More Effective Sprint Review? Do it the Fish! way! Choosing how you will walk through your day, having fun with your colleagues and clients, actively listen and participate in collaborations, and ensuring others also have a great day. I have written a short story a while ago about the basics of the Fish! Philosophy for being an outstanding team member. In other blog posts, I covered how this can make your Sprint Retrospective more effective, and also how it can improve your Sprint Planning. I looked at how this can work out for your Daily Scrum, and now we've arrived at the last specific event of Scrum: the Sprint Review. A small reminder from the Scrum Guide: “A Sprint Review is held at the end of the Sprint to inspect the Increment and adapt the Product Backlog if needed. Scenario A: The Scrum Team enters the meeting room - about 10 minutes late which is the standard in the organization. All of a sudden, the Product Owner jumps in between “This is not what I was looking for! Total silence. The session ends on a down note. Scenario B:

Very good and simple tips about how to learn/memorize. by hwachi Feb 26

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