Joanne JacobsDec 1, 20231 minPractice makes betterHow do get to Carnegie Hall? Practice! It's the same for math, writes Holly Korbey on Edutopia. “They are considered dirty words, but...
Joanne JacobsNov 8, 20231 minTeachers know little about how students learnMy teacher preparation program in the late '90s "never talked about how kids learn," writes M-J Mercanti-Anthony, the principal of a New...
Joanne JacobsAug 12, 20232 minEasy come, easy go: Googling is bad for learningStudents don't need to learn facts, educators have been saying since the Cro-Magnon first learned to search the Internet. "They can just...
Joanne JacobsMar 21, 20232 minIf you have to think about 3x = 18 . . . Thinking about everything is hard, writes Greg Ashman, author of Cognitive Load Theory, on Filling the Pail. It exhausts students'...