If you've got a little characters up there on your power point slides, it's distracting. If you can keep the extraneous load down, you have a whole lot more learning taking. So as your students are learning and they're building schemes, they're practising over and over so things are fast. And that if i try to fix it too much when it's actually relevant to the deeper learning and the failures and all of thatand so it's fascinating to me how all of this interplays. I always love when robert yorke comes up because he's been on the show previously,. and i'm invited to speak somewhere in texas and i can still recall
Todd Zakrajsek shares about the 3rd edition of The New Science of Learning on episode 422 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Let people struggle a little bit.
-Todd Zakrajsek
If you don’t teach students how to do well in groups, they don’t tend to get better at it.
-Todd Zakrajsek