i wanted to ask you about where this all ands in the arguments around memorizing things. We cannot critically appraise things that we don't have a basic knowledge of, he says. But there really isn't any way round being able to understand nearer science of parkerson's disease without knowing the terminology of substantial nigr and dope mean. So it's my long winded way of saying we do have to learn and memorize a lot of facts, particularly in stem, but that's no bad thing.
Phil Newton joins me to talk about evidence-based teaching practices on episode 363 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Many different things can count as evidence, but the key is whether or not they are useful for you in your particular context.
-Phil Newton
Assessment drives learning.
-Phil Newton