Thinking Deeply about Primary Education Making learning more challenging
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Mar 9, 2024 Elliot Morgan, an expert in education, discusses making learning more challenging. They explore what challenge is, the conditions surrounding learning, and how to sustain challenge over time. The podcast emphasizes the importance of pushing students out of their comfort zones and engaging them with tasks that promote deep knowledge.
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Design Desirable Difficulties Deliberately
- Build desirable difficulties like spacing, interleaving and varied practice into schemes of learning.
- Use testing over repeated presentation to boost long-term storage strength.
Encoding Must Come Before Retrieval
- Retrieval practice is powerful but overused when encoding was weak to begin with.
- You cannot strengthen a memory path that hasn't been formed by solid initial encoding.
Use Rehearsal Before Testing
- Use rehearsal and partner talk to encode new facts before testing retrieval.
- Give pupils repeated rehearsal opportunities so information enters long-term memory.