Description
Section 1. How Does Our Brain Work? 1. A Novice is Not a Little Expert 2. Take a Load Off Me 3. How Deep is Your Processing? 4. An Evolutionary View of Learning 5. One Picture and One Thousand Words Section 2. Prerequisites for Learning 6. What You Know Determines What You Learn 7. Why independent learning is not a good way to become an independent learner 8. Beliefs about Intelligence Can Affect Intelligence 9. thinking makes it so 10. How you Think about Achievement Is more Important than the Achievement Itself 11. Where Are We Going and How Do We Get There? Section 3. Which Learning Activities Support Learning 12. Why Scaffolding is Not as Easy as it Looks 13. The Holy Grail: Whole Class Teaching and One-to-One Tutoring 14. Problem Solving: How to Find a Needle in a Haystack 15. Activities that Give Birth to Learning Section 4. The Teacher 16. Zooming Out to Zoom In 17. Why Discovery Learning is a Bad Way to Discover Things / Why Inquiry Learning Isnt 18. Direct Instruction 19. Assessment for, not of learning 20. Feed up, Feedback, Feed Forward 21. Learning Techniques that Really Work Section 5. Learning in Context 22. Why Context is Everything 23. The Culture of Learning 24. Making Things Visible 25. It Takes a Community to Save $100 million Section 6. Cautionary Tales 26. Did You Hear the One About the Kinaesthetic Learner? 27. When Teaching Kills Learning 28. The Medium is NOT the Message 29.The Ten Deadly Sins of Education
