{"id":280,"date":"2020-04-28T20:26:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffpresents.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/28\/2020-4-28-quarantinotes-series-5-curriculum-bloat-interleaving-and-the-forgetting-curve\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T20:26:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:26:41","slug":"2020-4-28-quarantinotes-series-5-curriculum-bloat-interleaving-and-the-forgetting-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffpresents.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/28\/2020-4-28-quarantinotes-series-5-curriculum-bloat-interleaving-and-the-forgetting-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarantinotes Series #5 &#8211; Curriculum Bloat, Interleaving, and the Forgetting Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Did you watch last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cE2Wn1-pzek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quarantinote<\/a>?  If so, what was it about? <em> Do you remember?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Ok, I\u2019ll give you a hint.  We talked about <em>memory as it is impacted by images and words<\/em>.  Along the way I spoke about<strong><em> Cognitive Load. <\/em><\/strong> Do you remember that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><em>Do you remember the 3 different loads that we should have in mind as we teach and create curriculum?  Do you remember which should be minimized, which should be managed, and which should be maximized for the greatest impact?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s ok if you don\u2019t remember.  Just like students going from class to class, week to week, <em>most educators forget just as quickly\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>   <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEb5-0i5ekI?wmode=opaque&amp;enablejsapi=1\" height=\"480\" width=\"854\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">So this week, I share with you some information based on the work of <strong><em>Bjork &amp; Bjork,<\/em><\/strong> as well as the book, <strong><em>\u201cMake It Stick.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>  (If you don\u2019t have this book on your bookshelf, you shouldn\u2019t call yourself an educator\u2026it\u2019s that important.)<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:329px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:151.67173767089844%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a8d040564b05f9d780ecc2f\/1588105234834-GAF14U7BZK3ZEKSNOTCI\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHrYQjnf30q2-i9syNdZH1hZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWEtT5uBSRWt4vQZAgTJucoTqqXjS3CfNDSuuf31e0tVFpaFXBdX85Cw-SF91MHRbhUrowsi7SAtoEv6Z3eeYt7fpqTJJn4jT0lPPN4PYnmgo\/MakeItStick.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MakeItStick.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a8d040564b05f9d780ecc2f\/1588105234834-GAF14U7BZK3ZEKSNOTCI\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHrYQjnf30q2-i9syNdZH1hZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWEtT5uBSRWt4vQZAgTJucoTqqXjS3CfNDSuuf31e0tVFpaFXBdX85Cw-SF91MHRbhUrowsi7SAtoEv6Z3eeYt7fpqTJJn4jT0lPPN4PYnmgo\/MakeItStick.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a8d040564b05f9d780ecc2f\/1588105234834-GAF14U7BZK3ZEKSNOTCI\/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kHrYQjnf30q2-i9syNdZH1hZw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWEtT5uBSRWt4vQZAgTJucoTqqXjS3CfNDSuuf31e0tVFpaFXBdX85Cw-SF91MHRbhUrowsi7SAtoEv6Z3eeYt7fpqTJJn4jT0lPPN4PYnmgo\/MakeItStick.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"329x499\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"MakeItStick.jpg\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5ea89012e25f4125c2399288\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">We\u2019ll start by talking about a massive, prolific problem in K-20 education &#8211; <strong><em>curriculum drift and \/ or bloat.<\/em><\/strong>  While it\u2019s likely true that this is a greater problem in college than in K-12, the problem exists everywhere.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Then, I will share with you <strong>two strategies<\/strong> to consider for both mitigating drift\/bloat, as well as helping students actually learn. <em> (By learn, I mean remembering the information AFTER your class is over, not just acing the final and forgetting it all.)  <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I hope you find it 15 minutes worthy of your time as you develop your skills, bringing your teaching skills up a notch.  <em>While it may be a \u201cblocking and tackling\u201d aspect of learning, without considering stuff like this, the advanced (aka \u201cfun\u201d) stuff really isn\u2019t possible\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Good luck and good learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">I will share with you <strong>two strategies<\/strong> to consider for both mitigating drift\/bloat, as well as helping students actually learn. <em>(By learn, I mean remembering the information AFTER your class is over, not just acing the final and forgetting it all.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,791],"tags":[223,804,801,771,772,802,803,165,161,233,805,173,124],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","category-quarantinotes-series","tag-bjork","tag-brown","tag-cognitive-load","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-curriculum-bloat","tag-curriculum-drift","tag-forgetting-curve","tag-interleaving","tag-make-it-stick","tag-memory","tag-pd","tag-professional-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jeffpresents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/information_overload.jpg?fit=300%2C224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MbWB-4w","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44,"url":"https:\/\/jeffpresents.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/11\/2018-6-10-learning-is-no-joke\/","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":0},"title":"Learning Is No Joke","author":"bordenj88","date":"June 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Unfortunately, we have a lot of historical baggage to contend with, making real learning much harder than it needs to be.\u00a0 We have generations of practitioners doing the only thing they know how to do (that which was modeled by former instructors), despite so much research and evidence suggesting a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education Reform&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education Reform","link":"https:\/\/jeffpresents.com\/index.php\/category\/education-reform\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/jeffpresents.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/20\/2020-4-20-quarantinotes-series-4-images-vs-words\/","url_meta":{"origin":280,"position":1},"title":"Quarantinotes Series #4 &#8211; 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