@effortfuleduktr – Edventures

Adapting quizzing: perception of cognitive load #retrievalpractice

Kristian Still 1 Aug ’22 24 Oct ’22

This is part two of a three part series reviewing Svenja Heitmann Dissertation “On Optimising the Use of Practice Quizzing: Benefits Increase by Adapting and May Depend on Learners’ Achievement Motives and the publications that followed. Remember, in the first …

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The one thing you wish you knew about teaching…

Kristian Still 18 Apr ’22 18 Apr ’22

Blake does ask some good questions. I cherry picked a few of my favourite responses from a community of semi-like minded educators (we all follow Blake) and paused to reflect what that reveals about me. Teaching is really hard and …

Suffering and successful failures17 Dec ’24
It is a well rehearsed narrative, that we learn, gain, benefit more from our loses than from our triumphs. More from adversity than from our easy successes. Loses, adversity, often serves as the crucible in which our triumphs and our successes are forged. Matthew McConaughey …
Unresolvable problems16 Dec ’24
This was an unfinished post I first drafted six months ago when I was still in education as a Deputy Headteacher. Funnily enough, it is as relevant to my new role as COO and so I looked to finish and post it. It is certainly …
Dump Your To-Do List, Write Your To-Be List29 Nov ’24
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we often find ourselves buried under an avalanche of to-do lists. These lists, while seemingly helpful, can sometimes become the very a source of stress and worry they were designed to overcome. But what if there …
I still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under me3 Nov ’24
This post is written for a friend. The point of desperation is often the point of truth. He wrote. How do your move forward, when you still expect the carpet to be pulled out from under you? If you can move at all? Let alone …