’Learning is not a spectator sport. You have to get down and dirty’
Our brains are designed to learn through activity. Among other things, activity is reflection, needed for our brains to really understand and construct usable knowledge (deep learning). Therefore, it is important that the students get the opportunity to reflect and test their new knowledge during class through various activities.
See attention and memory, breaks, deep learning, intermediate memory, long-term memory, note taking, think-pair-share, surface learning, time-out, voting with peer-instruction, working memory
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