Subject: What are the differences between teaching ST/SD and other subjects?

Posted by Tony Phuah on 6/7/2010
In Reply To:What are the differences between teaching ST/SD and other subjects? Posted by Scott Guthrie on 6/7/2010

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Hi Scott

Thanks for your nice summary of the conservation so far in one place. I can delete the emails to save some mailbox storage.

> Learning is a very complex, non-linear process as is forgetting what
> you've learned. If learned information and behavior increases and
> decreases over time, what causes the increase and decrease? Is there a
> natural drain? What is the impact of an artificial success (doing
> well on a test)? What is the impact of actual success "in the field?"
> There is a lot of education theory to explore with this
> question/model.
Yes, breakthrough in education research is desperately needed. Unfortunately it advances slower than expected, may be because it is hard to measure people learning (hide in their brain).

> (9) "Does it imply that to improve retention of learning, we need not
> only teach people about ST/SD, but also help them to develop their
> ability to apply it in their everyday life to keep on using and so not
> forgetting?"
>
> Definitely! This is why it needs to be infused throughout the
> curriculum.
The next question will naturally be, "How to do it?"

Thanks for the resources you link to. I think I have them all in one by downloading CLE Introductory Packet zip file(http://www.clexchange.org/ftp/documents/whyk12sd/Y_2003-01CLEIntroPacket.pdf.zip). See http://www.clexchange.org/search/cle_docsearch.asp?searchstring=Introductory&search=1 for more information.

Thanks
Tony