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Information Scarcity & Information Abundance
I have written on this topic a number of times in the past. From a world (and an educational philosophy) built on information scarcity, we now find ourselves in a world of information abundance. I don’t know that we (as a community) have done very well in embracing this fundamental shift in…
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Virtuous Cycle of Higher Grades
I mentioned in my last post that Bjork presents ways to make knowledge transference an integrated part of learning. He also alludes to conditioning as one of the things that can get in the way of learning. In psychology, one of the basic principles of learning is shaping. Using shaping, you can get a bear to ride…
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Performance and Learning
Bjork‘s research demonstrates ways to make knowledge transference an integrated part of learning. In his chapter, Bjork alludes to conditioning as a primary problem in why transference and learning do not happen naturally. Transference is a difficult thing to learn. It’s easier to just learn the facts, and parrot them back again. In order…
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The Tyranny of Content
Stuff – that’s what we teach – stuff. Stuff and more stuff. We live in the information age, where information (and good quality information at that) is widely and freely available to more and more of us. Certainly, the availability of information to higher education students is at unprecedented levels. And yet, our…
