Ep 226: Retrieval Practice: Why Seeing is Not Remembering
The Science of Learning series continues on New Teacher Talk, with hosts Dr. Beth Wilkins and Dr. Anna Quinzio-Zafran welcoming back Dr. Ken King of Aurora University. This time the focus is retrieval practice, one of the most powerful and most underused strategies in learning science, and Dr. King makes it practical enough to try this week.
He starts by dismantling a common belief: that studying means putting information into your brain again and again through rereading, highlighting, and reviewing slides. Familiarity is not the same as memory. Students can feel fluent with material during…
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