Remember, you would not cut a family member out of Thanksgiving, so why would you cut out an educational tool that is vital to student success?
Undergirding our discipline is a complex, yet detectable, web
of related ideas. Everything is related.. If as professionals we approach
new concepts aware that they’re related and actively seek links between them,
that makes the content easier to understand and retain.
More important, the
conceptual framework we acquire looks more like an integrated body of
knowledge than an incomprehensible menu of scattered facts. Anyone familiar
with Piaget 101 knows that building a mental framework helps learners
accommodate and assimilate new information. Nodes in our minds allow us to
compare new data to old and create a meaningful narrative. The alternative is
intellectual buckshot.
Adapted from Dr. Karen Eifler, a profesor at the University of Portland. Reprinted from What
Would the Brady Bunch Do?, The Teaching Professor,
26.7 (2012): 6
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