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 1 year ago
wasting time getting used to converting between units.
Pick one.
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
That is actually not backed by science. Mixing material is a lot more effective than focusing on one thing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Especially when teaching chemistry
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is not true.
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[Citation needed]
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year 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