brain science Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/brain-science/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:41:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 10 ways to improve students’ long-term learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/longterm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=longterm https://ditchthattextbook.com/longterm/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:35:00 +0000 https://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=19697 Research has a lot to say about improving students' long-term memory. Here are 10 ideas you can use in class. Long-term memory and recall are important throughout the school year. But at state testing time, they get a LOT of attention. How can students remember some things for the rest of their lives ... but other […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/longterm/feed/ 5 Sticky learning: Digital brain dumps with Flipgrid and Socrative https://ditchthattextbook.com/sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative https://ditchthattextbook.com/sticky-learning-digital-brain-dumps-with-flipgrid-and-socrative/#comments Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:49:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=6629 Help new information stick in students' minds with the "brain dump," an effective, low-prep activity in the classroom. It’s a common request from teachers of students: Study. Go home and study. Go back over the material. Re-read the material. When we ask students to do this, we mean well. We want them to succeed. But we’re asking […]

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