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Cognitive Load Theory on My Mind

If we are going to be successful teachers, particularly this upcoming year, we need to manage the demands we place on our students’ active working memory.

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July 29, 2021

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Why Your Students Aren’t Really Learning—And How You Can Help

The key to truly learning something—as opposed to going through the motions, only to lose the information before it’s retained—is understanding how knowledge makes it into our long-term memory.

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February 7, 2019