david fawcett - why can't students remember? - pedagoo london 2014

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A different way of thinking?

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Working Memory

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Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1885

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• Design lessons that had high levels of thinking?

• Reduce cognitive overload?• Ensure new topics are learnt with

high storage strength?• Order topics to help the learning of

new information?• Practically implement spacing?• Introduce testing which is low stakes

and fun?• Interleave previous topics in a

manageable way?

How could we simply yet effectively...

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