Class Notes

Haiti complains that help isn't arriving fast enough. This is the same complaint of the 2-Sigma Problem. Students could be performing so much better if we were to fix the system, but we're not.

Google Docs - Research papers collected from other classmates

John Chapman- 2-Sigma Solved! by Corbett. Well, okay, just 1.7. Repeatability of studies. No one can repeat the study.

Jennifer Berry- Why does the 2-Sigma Problem happen in the first place.

Anneke Majors- It may be the actual interaction--the constructive process-- that is actually the key to re-creating the 2-Sigma problem.

D&C 88:118- Teach one another.

Anne Makin- Group learning may close the gap. Problem-based learning allows students to learn together and teach one another.

Michael Bush- Originality of the word "lecture" from French lecturne... Teachers read, students wrote and copied. The fact that we're still doing lectures is depressing. Technology can't solve the 2-Sigma Problem. But we could use them more effectively to close the gap.

Is solving the 2-Sigma problem our goal? We might push the possibility of its impossibility.

Thomas Edison, "We now know a thousand ways not to build a light bulb."

David Wiley- Halo- complexity of controls. More complex than most things students learn in school, and yet they master it.

• Tutoring = mean feedback events per unit of time. In class, this probably means less than one feedback event per hour. When playing Halo, it's probably 120/minute. The whole thing is about generating feedback events.
• Time on task. Spending more time on the content = better performance.
  

How do we create more environments for providing feedback more often during classes?

What is feedback, spiritually?

Are students vegging out, or do they have what they need to interact with the material being presented? Interaction = You initiate some kind of communication, environment acting back. When you say no texting, no passing notes, stop talking, you're cutting off all interaction that allows you to get feedback.

Spray and Pray. iClickers- it can change the dynamic by being interactive.