Week 3

I found the activities over viewing the DOL's conveyed clearly in plain English what we needed to know were effective.

For example, Declarative Knowledge = "Know Stuff" and Procedural Knowledge = "Know HOW to do stuff" brilliantly explained.

I can't say I agree with all the methods of storing declarative knowledge. I believe the "think, pair, share" and "Mnemonic" techniques are simple and effective, but "link" and "pegword" strategies can become over complicated and unorganised such as the exercise from Marzano & Pickerings Dimensions of Learning : Teachers Manual about the States of New England and using a paragraph with a story to memorise the 13 states. As entertaining as this is, it seems more sensible to just commit these facts to memory with a more "traditional" approach. Of course, this method of a "linking" strategy may work better for some learners than others.