Uncommon Sense Flashcards
T or F… Looking away from your book and trying to remember what you’re studying is a valid form of recall practice.
T
What’s it called when you try and look away from your book or notes to try and recall a fact, word, idea, procedure, etc …
No stakes testing
What is the process where, in an important part of your lesson, you have students take it a piece of paper and have them jot down the most important ideas you have covered?
Jot notes
What’s it called when you augment jot more with simple pictures to practice recall?
Jot sketches
What’s it called when you have students pause as they read each page and write down a key idea without looking back at the reading?
Jot reading materials
What’s it called when you have students write down things they learned from the day before?
Jot previous materials.
What is learning that involves connecting, strengthening, and extending sets of neural links in long term memory in the neocortex?
Learn it, link it
What is strengthening the connections between links as a student practices called?
Hebbian learning
T or F… Working memory often tricks kids into thinking it’s stored in long term memory
T
What is one of the best ways to use procedural learning to work with students with lesser capacity working memories.
Lots of practice with things like math problems, punctuation, etc.
What is the process in which the brain forms and strengthens new neural links as it “wraps its mind” around an idea or concept?
Consolidation
