- StumbleUpon. You Can't Multitask & Aza on Design. I can only think about one thing at a time.
Any girl reading this just going to roll her eyes and think, “Of course. You’re a guy!”. But it’s not just true for me, it’s true for everyone. It’s true for you. And not in that way. At first, this claim can sound fantastic. In both cases the extreme situation frustrates your habits and forces you to actively think about what you are doing at the expense of your other task. Still not convinced? Want another experiment? Software often requires us to actively think about two things at once: like needing to know if the current content of the clipboard is important (when you should be thinking about the edit you want to make), or whether the “predictive” text entry on cell phones has incorrectly guessed the word you want (when you really just want to be writing your message).
Not being able to think about two things at once means that we can’t truly “multitask” things that we need to think about. Time for another experiment. 50 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed-Treasure Chest Jan 23 2011. Welcome to this week’s Treasure Chest of 50 EdTech Resources You May Have Missed.
I try to post some of the more interesting topics and resources that I’ve come across during the past week. This week, I’m in a bit of a fun-loving mood so let’s start off with this site and see if you can do it! Do Nothing for 2 Minutes I hope you enjoy! Featured Two Schools: Which one builds a better bully?.
Tools How-To 10 Steps for Educators New to Twitter… –Here is a “How to Twitter Guide” to share with new and veteran teachers How to Copy YouTube Playlists of Another YouTube User –This video tutorial describes how you can create a YouTube playlist that is an exact copy of another existing YouTube playlist which may or may not be owned by you. iPad, iPod, etc. Five Best iOS Newsreaders –A portable and internet-connected device with a touch screen, especially a sizable one like the iPad, makes for a pretty slick platform for reading news.
Miscellaneous Video Is Classroom Size a Problem Prezi Quick Tips. Educational Jargon Generator. Dunning–Kruger effect. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate.
The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. Dunning and Kruger attributed the bias to the metacognitive inability of the unskilled to evaluate their own ability level accurately. Their research also suggests that conversely, highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them also are easy for others.[1] Dunning and Kruger have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.
Original study[edit] Supporting studies[edit] Award[edit] Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System. Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool. The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is.
"Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the University of Maryland. But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it's a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it.
When Eric Mazur began teaching physics at Harvard, he started out teaching the same way he had been taught. "I sort of projected my own experience, my own vision of learning and teaching — which is what my instructors had done to me. He loved to lecture. "For a long while, I thought I was doing a really, really good job," he says. But then in 1990, he came across articles written by David Hestenes, a physicist at Arizona State. Hestenes had a suspicion students were just memorizing the formulas and never really getting the concepts. The two balls reached the ground at the same time. A Guide to Learning Styles.