{"id":17,"date":"2007-06-16T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T19:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minkhollow.ca\/KB\/Blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2010-09-26T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T18:56:26","slug":"on-wasting-valuable-lesson-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2007\/06\/16\/on-wasting-valuable-lesson-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On Wasting Valuable Lesson Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p class=\"MsoNormal\">On \u201cwasting valuable lesson time\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>We must.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When \u2018content\u2019 is stripped of its context, which MUST include those pesky extraneous details, it becomes disconnected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">No wonder learners can\u2019t remember stuff. Virtually all of the memory tricks we use to help us remember things involve some way to attach the thing we are learning to something meaningful to us. If &#8216;we trim the fat&#8217; from our lessons in an effort to make it more efficient (i.e. if we take away the bits that are not directly relevant to our &#8216;content&#8217;) we also remove the context which is so crucial for anchoring learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Case in point:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I find politics tedious. I especially find American politics tedious (I&#8217;m not American). However, I have come to really (I mean REALLY) like the television show West Wing. While watching, I have learned WAY more about American politics and their political system than I ever really wanted to. It makes watching the Bush and Cheney show quite frightening. <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warnerbros.com\/web\/westwingtv\/index.jsp?frompage=sitemap\">http:\/\/www2.warnerbros.com\/web\/westwingtv\/index.jsp?frompage=sitemap<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_West_Wing\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/The_West_Wing\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200276\/quotes\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200276\/quotes<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-17'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(17);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(17);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(17);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>On \u201cwasting valuable lesson time\u201d We must. When \u2018content\u2019 is stripped of its context, which MUST include those pesky extraneous details, it becomes disconnected. No wonder learners can\u2019t remember stuff. Virtually all of the memory tricks we use to help &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2007\/06\/16\/on-wasting-valuable-lesson-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[41,393],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3737,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/12\/07\/places-ive-been-to-dec-7-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":17,"position":0},"title":"Places I&#8217;ve Been (to Dec. 7, 2013)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Mathigon | World of Mathematics tags: Math ebook education interactive learning Breaking Barriers: Video Games as Tools for Learning and Recovery | THE Tech Scoop \"Many parents see video games as time-wasting distractions and encourage their children to stop playing and to focus on their studies. 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