![]() Then I’ll explain the initial study (with the “obvious flaw”). The disciplinary breadth makes its guidance more useful.įinally, this study – for reasons that I’ll explain – makes the “obviously flawed assumption” go away. Third, students took notes in both a science class and in a history class. This more realistic setting gives us greater confidence in the research’s applicability. Second, the research took place in the students’ regular classroom, not in a psychology lab. Research with college students can be useful, but it might not always help K-12 teachers. Paul Penn (Twitter handle recently pointed me to a study with several pertinent benefits.įirst, the researchers worked with 10-year-olds, not with adults. ![]() ![]() Sadly, the research in this field has – in my opinion – produced unhelpful advice because it rests on an obviously flawed assumption. If we were confident that one strategy or the other produced more learning – factual learning, conceptual learning, ENDURING learning – then we could give our students straightforwardly useful advice. Here’s a practical question: should our students take notes by hand, or on laptops?
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