When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning - Ben Orlin. I once caught an 11th-grader who snuck a cheat sheet into the final exam.
At first, he tried to shuffle it under some scratch paper. When I cornered him, he shifted tactics. "It's my page of equations," he told me. "Aren't we allowed a formula sheet? The physics teacher lets us. " Looking back, I have to ask myself: Why didn't I allow a formula sheet? "What's the sine of π/2? " "One! " So I skipped ahead, later to realize that they didn't really know what "sine" even meant.
Some things are worth memorizing--addresses, PINs, your parents' birthdays. Memorization has enjoyed a surge of defenders recently. Certainly, knowledge matters. I define memorization as learning an isolated fact through deliberate effort. First, there's raw rehearsal: reciting a fact over and over. Raw rehearsal is the worst way to learn something.
Second, there are mnemonics and other artificial tricks--songs, acronyms, silly rhymes. Such tactics certainly work better than raw rehearsal. So what are the alternatives? Social Learning. Teaching Tolerance. Free ESL games, printable communication games, free english games to download, grammar games, printable board games for the classroom. MES English Certificate Templates Printable Cards Phonics Worksheets Worksheet Makers ESL Listening End User License Agreement: You are free to download any resource from this site as an end user and MES-English.com grants you an End User License with the following restrictions: You may not redistribute, copy, modify, transfer, transmit, repackage, charge for or sell any of the materials from this site.
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How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog. How to create a Posterous blog. The Basics of Creating and Editing a Wikispaces Wiki.More, including a video tutorial, about using Wikispaces. Creating a Google Sites website. Ten Options for Creating Websites. Yola (formerly Synthasite) is the tool that I am currently using to build websites for my department and other departments in my high school. Webs (formerly Free Webs) is another service that I have first-hand experience with in a school setting because my girlfriend (a teacher in another school district) uses it for her classes.
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