Re:How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
by josephg on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:52AM
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Thanks for this write up - the cognitive model of “productive struggle” is exactly the thing I was fumbling around in the dark for. This was really well explained and something I’m going to carry with me next time I run into a similar situation in the classroom. Much appreciated!
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Re:How to Learn Everything: The MasterClass Diaries
by heymijo on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:51AM
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You're welcome. It's useful and enjoyable for me to see how people think through their teaching.
Should you want to find out more you can search "productive struggle nctm/math/teaching." The concept came to me via the math education community but I would actually recommend starting out with the work of Robert and Elizabeth Bjork [0,1].
The Bjorks have researched the same concept extensively. Their term for it is "desirable difficulties."
Their work made the leap from academia to popular culture via David Epstein's book, Range.
[0] https://researchschool.org.uk/durrington/news/bjorks-desirab...
[1] https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/robert-a-bjork-publications/