What can we do about misinformation about education?
Kendeou and Johnson (2023) discuss how to combat misinformation at individual, community, and system levels.
Sadly, there’s a lot of misinformation about education out there:
Learning styles is a big misconception in education, for sure, but there are others. And misconceptions exist among individuals (i.e., students, teachers, parents), in communities (e.g., Facebook groups touting misconceptions about risk factors for Autism Spectrum Disorder), and at the system level (e.g., policies for how to teach kids to read that do not align with the best evidence). What can we do to correct and hopefully squelch these misconceptions? Well, Kendeou and Johnson (2023) have a great article out on how to combat misconceptions at each of these levels. It has many good suggestions for using prebunking, knowledge revision, and storytelling (among other strategies) to combat misinformation in and about education. And I really appreciated the three-level, systems approach to misinformation. This article is definitely worth a read! I believe if we follow Kendeou and Johnson’s suggestions, we can make learning styles (and other misconceptions) less of a “thing.”
@adamconover# stitch with @mrs_delap “Learning styles” are a myth #greenscreen #myths #education #misconceptions #comedy #learning
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