Tag Archives: cognitive research

Rebuilding a Course Around Prior Knowledge

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Mills

Of the many different courses I teach, the one I’ve made the fewest changes in over the past decade is my survey of modern Eastern Europe. Every other course I teach has been reconfigured in various ways as a result … Continue reading →

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How Heuristics Make History Hard

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Mills

What do we really know about how our students generate answers to historical questions? Thanks to Sam Wineberg, Peter Seixas, Bob Bain, Stephane Levesque, and others in their orbits, we know a good bit about how K-12 history students reach … Continue reading →

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I Know…Let’s Blame the Students

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Mills

Sometimes it seems to me that whenever things go wrong in college teaching, the first impulse of the professor is to blame the students. They aren’t prepared for class. They don’t want to grapple with the hard concepts. They don’t … Continue reading →

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