Resource Category: Learning and studying

Khan Academy – Free Online Courses

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content.

How we learn: The surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens

Author: Benedict Carey In How We Learn, award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. By road testing many of the counterintuitive techniques described in this book, Carey shows how we can flex the neural muscles that […]

Graphing Calculator

Desmos encourages students to practice math skills as well as play with math to express their creativity. Students can enter an unlimited number of mathematical expressions and instantly see results graphed on the page. A variety of colors and features make it possible to turn graphs into complex and realistic drawings.

GoConqr: Growth through Learning

“This app is great for someone like me who is a visual learner. It allows me to make different study materials and collaborate with other people.
This free app allows student to create study materials such as flashcards and study maps”

Exam prep: How to study with Bloom’s taxonomy

This resource helps students apply Bloom’s Taxonomy to their own learning. It explains the various levels of Bloom’s and provides generous examples of individual and group study strategies that relate well to the different levels of Bloom’s. This is one of the more comprehensive Bloom’s Taxonomy resources I have seen that makes this learning theory very applicable to students and gives them many ideas about how they can engage with their course content in a deeper and more meaningful way.

Doing away with ‘study skills’

One of my favourite articles to offer a critical perspective on our profession. This paper argues that the widespread approach to enhancing student learning through separate study skills courses is ineffective, and that the term ‘study skills’ itself has misleading implications, which are counterproductive to learning.

Cult of Pedagogy

Teaching strategies, classroom management, education reform, educational technology — if it has something to do with teaching, we’re talking about it. On the podcast, Gonzalez interviews educators, students, administrators and parents about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and other juicy things you’ll never learn in a textbook.

Cognitive Load Theory

Cognitive load theory uses evolutionary theory to consider human cognitive architecture and uses that architecture to devise novel, instructional procedures.

Bonus Video for LSAC

The 3-2-1 Method (Reverse Engineering for outcomes technique). Using the Thinkwell-Learnwell Diagram Leonard Geddes works backwards from Outcomes through Interactions to Triggers to identify necessary changes for success.

Ahaslides

This is an online presentation platform which is relatively cheap and allows for various types of anonymous participation.

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