If your goal is to teach a new material, you teach that material specifically. You dont mix other things into it because 1) it makes it harder for them to learn that new material and 2) it makes it harder for you to figure out what they dont understand.
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Isoprenoid@programming.dev 6 months ago
wasting time getting used to converting between units.
Pick one.
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That is actually not backed by science. Mixing material is a lot more effective than focusing on one thing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Especially when teaching chemistry
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is not true.
xkforce@lemmy.world 6 months ago
[Citation needed]
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
The only thing I quickly found is this paper, which says that learning multiple things is not better nor worse than one thing at a time, but it also states in the abstract that cognitive psychologists believed up to that point that mixing multiple topics is beneficial.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ll have you know converting out of slugs was absolutely a waste of time. My prof searing 2.54cm/in into my brain was quite useful though