 Hey everybody, it's Jennifer Gonzalez from Cult of Pedagogy. I just wanted to share something with you I'm into chapter one of our summer reading book make it stick and If you're reading this with us that the deadline to finish if you want to I don't know be on the same track as everybody Else's July 15th But I thought I would try something and just pop in every once in a while and give you kind of a I don't know Little commentary on what I'm reading and if you're around the same place that I am and you want to add your own Comments, and you can do that in the comments below, so I'm just going to do this on Facebook and maybe Twitter if I can figure out how to get it on to Twitter So okay chapter one is about testing, but it is not about standardized testing or anything like that It's about testing as a learning tool Have you ever taught something to somebody or learn something yourself and you get far enough along where you want Somebody to test you on it. You know you got enough so that you start to feel like I could actually answer some questions on this Well, there's definitely something to that The research says this if If you want your students to retain information longer and better then build in periodic periods of practice tests for them Students who are given a bunch of material and then only tested at the end of it Show much much greater loss of the material and poor retention Then if they are given sort of practice tests periodically as they go along the idea is kind of the same as Like a flight simulator simulator like when an airline pilot imagine an airline pilot just sits and reads books about About flying and never actually has to get into the flight simulator and practice They're flying. It's the same idea if you're not put into a slightly stressful situation where you have to sort of recall the information Then you don't learn it as well. So Practice testing is actually a really effective learning tool an instructional tool Not necessarily a tool for measuring learning at the end but for actually getting students to retain information so the takeaway that I got from this chapter so far is When you're instructing if you can build in quick little quizzes of any sort not even for a grade or anything Just to have students practice and test their knowledge They will actually learn it better. So that is my tip for now. And wow that piece of hair is really sticking out whatever So I'm just loving this book if you have not picked up yet. I'm only on chapter one and so go get it there if you Yeah, if you go to called a pedagogy right now I've got a picture of it in the sidebar make it stick you can just click on that and you'll go right to where you can get it So, thank you. Have a great day