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Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American

  • People remember things better, longer, if they are given very challenging tests on the material, tests at which they are bound to fail. In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.
11 Oct 09

Education Week: Inverting Bloom's Taxonomy

  • the aim is not merely to collect what is known, but to learn how to think about problems in a new way.
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