How often have you added pictures or gifs to a PowerPoint presentation to spice it up? It turns out that these fun additions can actually negatively impact your audience's learning. This is especially important for educators and students…
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GUEST POST: Personalizing Professional Learning
I divide my work into seasons and transitions. The first season (spring) I taught in a K-12 environment for 25 years. Near the transition to the second season (summer), I knew I had one thing left to do. I wanted to create a level playing field for children, who enter school without a fair and equal chance of succeeding.
GUEST POST: The Murky Waters of Generational Learning Preferences
Thanks for joining me on my latest myth busting expedition! My first two expeditions lead me to debunking learning style theories and psychological types, specifically the MBTI.
GUEST POST: Acing my Dressage Test: Cognitive Psychology at the Barn
When I’m not busy being a professor, I can be found at the barn with my nine year old Thoroughbred horse (Chance). Chance was bred to be a racehorse but he was too slow, so he opted for a career change.
GUEST POST: Transforming Students to Learners
I think a lot about how to transform students to lifelong learners. It is not only a matter of being an effective educator; it is the right thing to do morally. The drive to help students become learners goes beyond the students enrolled in my classes.
GUEST POST: Using Knowledge Organizers as Effective Study Tools
I read with interest this blog post on six strategies for effective learning and immediately began to think about how knowledge organizers could be best utilized to encourage and explicitly model habitual use of these strategies in students’ revision.