Desirable difficulties in learning makes learning more challenging but also more effective and this is taken by article by Annie Brookman-Byrne.
The corkers for me were:
- There are ways of learning that may feel effective and even lead to more errors during the actual learning process by that also leads to better performance over the long term.
- "Spacing" aims to increase the amount of information that is learnt so rather than revisiting the same information in succession, you would spread it out over time.
- Instead of studying information on a topic 3 times in a row, trey studying for the same amount of time overall but split up into 3 smaller sessions in a 24 hour period (30mins v 3 x 10mins).
- "Interweaving" refers to switching between topics rather than staying on 1 specific topic so switch from maths to geography to French than back to maths again.
- The "testing effect" refers to the act of trying to remember information which can improve learning of that material later on.
- Multiple choice encourages you to think about each answer which seems to help recall untested but related information.
- When things feel at their toughest than that's often when the real learning is taking place.
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