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The phrase “chasing the dragon” describes the pursuit of an experience that was exciting at first but becomes increasingly elusive the harder you try to recapture it—the classic cycle of addiction. People keep chasing the dragon not because it’s working, but because they’re convinced the payoff will eventually come — if only they keep trying.
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In this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I’m joined by Marty Siegel, Professor Emeritus of Informatics and Instructional Systems Technology, a...
Direct Instruction—note the capital D and I—is the OG of explicit teaching.
Back in the mid-1960s, folks at the University of Illinois and later at Oregon arrived at a simple but essential insight: better teaching leads to better learning. As Siegfried Engelmann liked to point out, if students didn’t learn it, the teaching didn’t happen. Building on this premise, th...
A possible barrier to the science of learning movement is that there are potentially a lot of research terms and definitions that need to be learned in order to communicate clearly with one another.
On the one hand, the pursuit of a shared language among educators is worthwhile. If when you say href="https://educationrickshaw.com/2025/08/08/direct-instruction...
Every so often, someone who knows I’m a fan of Cognitive Load Theory brings up its collaborative line of inquiry — Collaborative Cognitive Load Theory. They’ve stumbled on it and wondered what I think. So, you’d think I’d b...
