{"id":29,"date":"2014-01-21T00:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/?p=29"},"modified":"2014-01-21T00:25:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:25:05","slug":"relearning-a-colossal-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/2014\/01\/21\/relearning-a-colossal-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Relearning &#8211; a colossal waste of time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have come back on our Cohort 21 site and am noticing a rash of activity over the past day or two as our deadline for action plans approaches tonight. \u00a0I am glad to see that I may not be the only one who has taken a wee bit of a hiatus from posting. \u00a0I have been less than faithful to my blog over the past couple of months and must do something to remedy that.<\/p>\n<p>In thinking about an action plan that would be engaging for me I have kept coming back to using technology in formative assessments. \u00a0There is an interesting website for languages, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duolingo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duolingo<\/a>, that uses an algorithm where students get reminded of topics they were weaker at or haven&#8217;t looked at recently. \u00a0I think there are so many topics for my senior science students that they learn and then forget about again (maybe even over the hour-long lesson) that there must be something I can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>So when I think about an action plan and I let myself feel the freedom that has been granted us by our Cohort21 co-conspirators I am still, in all honesty, left wondering if I should be asking a question, musing about or creating a concrete task for myself. \u00a0As I can&#8217;t write algorithms and am still working on my blogging abilities I think my best approach for now may be asking a question . . .<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to maximize learning and retention while minimizing relearning and information loss? \u00a0How can technology help with this?<\/p>\n<p>. . . let&#8217;s see where this takes me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come back on our Cohort 21 site and am noticing a rash of activity over the past day or two as our deadline for action plans approaches tonight. \u00a0I am glad to see that I may not be the only one who has taken a wee bit of a hiatus from posting. \u00a0I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/2014\/01\/21\/relearning-a-colossal-waste-of-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Relearning &#8211; a colossal waste of time?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}