"Predicting the future is easy. It's trying to figure out what's going on now that's hard" (Dressler, 2005)
Ever developed one of those killer assignments that you know would be dynamite … and then you review the graduate student submissions and wonder – How could they have missed that!?!? Yep! It happened to me this week. It happened ironically during a synthesis assignment on attention, memory and thinking, and it pointed out to… Read more Lesson in Explicitness or Lack Thereof
Last week, I began discussing Michelle Miller’s new book, Minds Online: Teaching Effectively With Technology. In my post, “Cognitively Optimized Online Course,” I reviewed the first three chapters on online learning, how it works, and the psychology of computing. In this post, I look at the fourth chapter, on attention. Sooo … has the cute… Read more Attention, Cognition, and Online Learning