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 10 months ago
wasting time getting used to converting between units.
Pick one.
xkforce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
That is actually not backed by science. Mixing material is a lot more effective than focusing on one thing.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Especially when teaching chemistry
xkforce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is not true.
xkforce@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[Citation needed]
Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de 10 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 10 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