Ping Kwa
@pingkwa
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Forever a student & sometimes educator. 1st Polytechnic recipient of the President's Award for Teachers. Teaching & learning, tech & serendipitious finds.
Planet Earth
Joined April 2009
So what are the implications of over 100 years of research on forgetting for educators? Principles to know: ▶️ Our capacity to store stuff in memory is relatively limitless but our capacity to retrieve it is not. In other words, just because you know something, it doesn't mean
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Direct or explicit instruction seems to be widely misunderstood. It's often characterised as boring lectures with little interaction and not catering to the needs of all students. Nothing could be further from the truth. A short thread 🧵⬇️
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58% of students are using generative AI tools, but many schools don't have clear policies on how to use AI ethically and responsibly. We’re excited to have supported the development of the AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit with #TeachAI! ➡️ https://t.co/YW2SgikAzH
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When we're seeking to improve our practices (the actions & routines we undertake on a daily basis), the approach we should take depends on the type of practice. If it's novel practice, we cannot be clear whether our actions will deliver the results we seek (cause & effect not
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Reduce assessment overload to create time & space for assessment re-design in GenAI times: slides from my keynote @CUHKofficial
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A wonderful collection of articles on the science of learning
Society for the Teaching of Psychology - In Their Own Words
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Don't use ChatGPT for academic research. It creates fake citations to papers that don't even exist. Instead, use Consensus — an AI-powered search engine designed for academics. Ask it a question and it'll give you a summary of top 5-10 (real) published papers.
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How to use ChatGPT ethically to write a perfect first draft (of your journal article, dissertation chapter, etc.):
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A series of digestible one-pagers on important T&L topics such as retrieval practice, memory, novice learners etc. Thanks for sharing @AndrewWhitworth
In theory - Free PDF versions of my one-pagers. You might want to retweet if you think others would find it useful.
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This paper I am reading today is pulling no punches and taking no crap. I cheered a few times. It might be the most significant learning research paper out right now. https://t.co/BfJVJ7FHqL 1/3
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Good reminders (with an awesome infographic)
The #1 problem/weakness in teaching and how to address it. https://t.co/qxsZlTsrxq Now with an awesome infographic by @olicav to download from the linked post.
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Brilliant thread about teacher expertise. Pre-ordered the book.
I've spent the last 3 years writing a book on teacher expertise. Here are the most important ideas I've learned around: → What expertise is (and is not) → What causes it → Its emergent properties & limits Let's go ↓
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A great bunch of resources about MCQs in this thread
Thread: There are lots of great blogs about the use of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) in the classroom. I have shared them before but felt they were worth sharing again. As with lots of other approaches in the classroom, MCQs can be used effectively & efficiently or badly!
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Is the paper you need stuck behind a paywall? Five websites every researcher should know to access any research paper for free @AcademicChatter
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Loving the idea of the feedback portfolio in this thread!
🧵Feedback was something that felt like a waste of time for me for a long time with my students. It seemed like I would spend hours providing it only to have it be ignored. I blamed the kids, when I should have been looking at my practice. Here's what I've changed... 1/
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Five core principles for powerful questioning in the classroom ❓❓ Sequencing Framing & Presenting Pausing Gathering & Processing Redirecting Keep an eye out 👀 for a podcast with me and @KateJones_teach and @EvidenceInEdu
#comingsoon
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Love this
'Brain dump with a buddy' ... a slight twist, similar to 'cops n robbers' task. Student must write down all they can recall from memory in the first column, then they can compare their answer with a peer & add extra/additional information in the second section. 🧠
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