Theory of learning is that we do something new from experience. You talk about classical conditioning, operant conditioning and social learning theory. There's so much out there, and we don't have time to figure out what would really be helpful. If you ask students a question and they kind of play cowerd just a little bit, or they they look their face, winches at whatever,. Just keep an eye out, because there's people who have been treated forly and they're just responding. It was albert van dore’s popular hat in the seventies: “It’s so important, for one thing, when someone else in the class asks
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