Teaching Emergency Medicine Just Got Easier...
Interested in learning effectively? Thought so. Then you’ll want to read this free-to-access paper — it is a must read for every teacher and anyone serious about learning: J. Dunlosky, K. A. Rawson, E. J. Marsh, M. J. Nathan, D. T. Willingham. Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational [...]
I recently came across in interesting free online annotation tool called NB developed by MIT, that seems ideal for helping to flip the classroom as part of an asynchronous learning approach. NB allows an instructor to upload pdfs so that students can read and annotate them collectively. Students can ask questions about sections of text, answer each [...]
The first rule of SMACC CLUB is you MUST talk about SMACC CLUB! So, what is SMACC CLUB? SMACC CLUB is a chance for anyone anywhere in the world to take part in the SMACC conference online, whilst championing the critical appraisal of the emergency medicine and critical care literature. It is also a chance [...]
This TEDx talk covers a lot of things I have a habit of banging on about, but does so with considerably more eloquence. What’s the dirty little secret about learning? The forgetting curve is precipitous. Even the best students remember little years after a course finishes. Jamshed Bharucha highlights 3 key things that can lead [...]
How cognitive science can help learning in medicine has been featured on iTeachEM a few times already. In are Are You Wrong About Learning? we discovered that studying in one place, learning one thing at a time, taking notes in lectures and not studying just before the exam are NOT necessarily good for learning. In [...]
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