John Fritz's video shows a perfect confirmation of one of the basic
pieces of knowledge in learning psychology: if you spend more time on a
learning task you'll do better (upto a certain maximum). Why is it so
difficult to convince students of this obvious truth? Not so difficult:
students choose between study and sport or the pub every day. Some
students make wise choices, others succumb to temptations. What
interests me most in this context is: how do we seduce students to spend
more time? The classic solution was to use force: force them to sit in a
classroom for hours, force them to hand in products or to do exams...
We all agree that we would prefer not to use force; can force be
replaced by a tool that allows students to inspect how much time they
spend?
Possible..... It sounds too simple to me, but who knows?
I think I have higher expectations of something like the traffic lights
at Purdue, though, where teachers are involved in specifying what kind
of behaviour and performance they expect from students in the course of
there unit.
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