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I finally got my students to read the text before class « Shifting Phases — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 02:58:17 +0000

[...] the results I got two years ago, when second year students who read the textbook would claim to be “confused” by “all of it,” or at best would pick out from the text a few bits of trivia while ignoring the most significant [...]

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Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:02:25 +0000

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Reading Comprehension Techniques: Review « Shifting Phases — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:28:42 +0000

[...] especially tricky sections of the surface-mount chapter with an exercise designed to help students figure out what was confusing. Then we practiced using the de-confusification techniques shown below. View this document on [...]

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Tue, 31 May 2011 07:34:58 +0000

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By: LSquared

LSquared — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:55:42 +0000

Mylene–thank you for sharing this lesson. Now I’m wondering where I can use the same thing.

Paul–thank you for sharing that video! I feel like I just learned a huge amount about making good videos.

By: Mylene

Mylene — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:16:32 +0000

Aw geez, am I that transparent? That video was a major inspiration for the lesson, and I showed it to the students later in the day. I will definitely write more about this — and give proper credit to Veritasium for their thought-provoking materials.

Thanks for writing, Paul! If you liked that video, and you haven’t read Frank Noschese‘s blog, you might also like his posts about Khan academy, pseudoteaching, and confusion.

By: Paul Martenis

Paul Martenis — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:32:09 +0000

Your experience has much in common with this commentary on science videos that I just discovered: "Khan Academy and the [In]Effectiveness of Science Videos" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVtCO84MDj8 Especially the point about presented material being *more* confusing when looking carefully.

By: Reading Comprehension: Identifying Confusion « Gas station without pumps

Reading Comprehension: Identifying Confusion « Gas station without pumps — Tue, 24 May 2011 03:05:18 +0000

[...] teach “technical reading.” Now she has another post on a different exercise she used: Reading Comprehension: Identifying Confusion. Once more, good stuff that would be very useful in beginning engineering [...]

By: Mylene

Mylene — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:21:34 +0000

@quantumprogress: This lesson happened about two days after you posted Embracing Confusion, as you might be able to tell! Later in the day we tackled some of the ideas you raise in that post, students had lots of interesting things to say, although I'm not sure I was framing the questions well. Will write more soon. @Terie:Hope you'll post about it if you try it -- I'd love to get some more perspectives.

By: Mylene

Mylene — Tue, 24 May 2011 02:15:14 +0000

Glad to know this resonates outside of my four walls. Confusion is turning out to be a really interesting theme to talk about with my students.