Read My Mind! Teaching to How Students Learn

This paper explains recent findings in cognitive science that can revolutionize teaching and improve students' thinking and retention. It also describes and gives examples of ways to change teaching practices to match up with how students learn. Here are the principles:
• We need to design lessons that cause students to learn for themselves. Students learn best when they figure things out, rather than being told or drilled.
• We need to teach in a way that efficiently puts new information and the logic that holds it together into the brain. Our brains store information in analogies, so we need to tap into that storage mechanism.
• We need to cause students to confront their misperceptions and conquer the Threshold Concepts in our disciplines that are central to understanding.