In our third Early Career Fest session led by Lisa-Maria Muller, Paul Kirschner and Elizabeth Mountstevens delivered presentations on Using Cognitive ScienceThe study of the human mind, such as the processes of thought, memory, attention and perception to Inform Classroom Practice. In this webinar we explored:
- How we can use what we know about how pupils learn to make effective decisions in the classroom
- The role of retrieval practice and spaced learning in embedding learning for the long term
- What the challenges are in using cognitive science in education
Participants also had the opportunity to ask questions in a Q&A towards the end of the webinar.
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Relevant links:
- To download Paul Kirschner’s slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cUA7A7akAtSeoNwlEjzwMOeB5SQeAWIO/view?usp=sharing
- If you’re interested in organising knowledge for your pupils, you might be interested in reading this article from our Early Career Hub – https://earlycareer.chartered.college/organising-knowledge-the-purpose-and-pedagogy-of-knowledge-organisers/
- Learn more about ‘how pupils learn’ by exploring research Paul has mentioned on cognitive load theoryAbbreviated to CLT, the idea that working memory is limited and that overloading it can have a negative impact on learning, and that instruction should be designed to take this into account, dual codingIn qualitative research, coding involves breaking down data into component parts, which are given names. In quantitative research, codes are numbers that are assigned to data that are not inherently numerical (e.g. in a questionnaire the answer 'strongly agree' is assigned a 5) so that information can be statistically processed., memory, spacing, interleavingAn approach to learning where, rather than focusing on one piece of content at a time (known as blocking) then moving on to the next, students alternate between related concepts and retrieval practice as well as videos of these approaches in classroom practice – https://earlycareer.chartered.college/standard-2/
- Members are able to get a discount on Paul’s book via our member discounts: https://my.chartered.college/research/member-discounts/
- Elizabeth has written a fantastic article for our Early Career Hub about some of her approaches – https://earlycareer.chartered.college/modelling-and-metacognition-in-a-secondary-classroom/
- There’s a video of retrieval practice in a primary classroom over on our Early Career Hub –
https://earlycareer.chartered.college/retrieval-practice-in-a-primary-classroom/
