MYTHS VIDEO

The following is a video we made for the LEARNING SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2024. We are making this video available to all as a reference for how learning myths show up, can be addressed, and assessed. We hope you enjoy it. Any materials mentioned in the video for conference participants are long gone… but, we do provide the references we used below.

We have also enabled French subtitles for our friends in the Francophile parts of the world.

LEARNING SCIENCE REFERENCES 

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