How you practise and how you're told about it drive improvement. Massed vs distributed, blocked vs random practice, and intrinsic vs augmented feedback each suit different learners and stages.
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the one idea
why this one carries the topic.
Learning a skill goes through predictable stages, and what helps at one stage gets in the way at another.
Practice structure and feedback delivery must match the learner's skill level and the task demands for efficient skill development.
what examiners catch — Students fail to justify why blocked practice suits cognitive learners while random practice suits autonomous learners, missing the connection between stage of learning and practice type.
what you leave with
four things, not forty.
Massed vs distributed practice scheduling
Blocked vs random practice ordering
Feedback: intrinsic (felt) vs augmented (external)
Knowledge of results vs knowledge of performance
what's underneath
nothing here is a standalone fact.
knowhere maps every concept to what it rests on and what rests on it — 2 underneath this one, 2 built on top. Each one says why, in a sentence, not as an arrow on a diagram.
this conceptpractice and feedbackPractice structure and feedback delivery must match the learner's skill level and the task demands for efficient skill development.
sits under itstages of learningbecause practice design follows the learner's stage
sits under ittypes of practice structuresbecause the structures are half the practice design
built on itfeedback types and timingbecause Feedback is one half of how practice is organised; the types here sit inside that frame.
built on ittransfer of learningbecause Transfer explains why some practice histories make new practice more or less efficient.
the rest of skill acquisition
5 more, same treatment.
Each one is its own knowscape in the app — built for how a particular student takes things in, not one explanation handed to everybody.
classifying movement skillsin the apptransfer of learningin the appfeedback types and timingin the appstages of learningin the apptypes of practice structuresin the app
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