{"id":6846,"date":"2018-02-22T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2018-02-22T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:36:00","slug":"worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?"},"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><blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/13.7\/2018\/02\/01\/581864513\/would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gettyimages-152401800_wide-a84c312c3cbccaaba387c7123567f62aa094d84f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/13.7\/2018\/02\/01\/581864513\/would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\">Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6846'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6846);\" 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(6846);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6846);\">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>Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. King suggests that the answer might point toward benefits of a slower pace of teaching in the college classroom. Source: Would College Students Retain More If Professors &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9,369,24],"tags":[388,389,15,393],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-higher-education","category-teaching-learning","tag-academia","tag-educational-technology","tag-higher-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Mq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1630,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/03\/17\/ipads-for-college-classrooms-not-so-fast-some-professors-say-technology-the-chronicle-of-higher-education\/","url_meta":{"origin":6846,"position":0},"title":"iPads for College Classrooms? 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