Cognitive load is the amount of information a person can process at one time. There are three types of cognitive load: implicit, lowd and extraneous. A physics book is just harder than a third grade novel according to e-mailing from iReport.com. E-mail us your thoughts on what you've learned so far in this story.
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