February 2024 Reading Research Recap: How To Activate and Use Background Knowledge in Instruction

Everyone seems to be talking about background knowledge lately, but what does the research actually say about activating prior knowledge? Find out in Dr. Neena Saha’s summary of the research (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full....

Timestamps:
0:11 Introduction to the research
0:43 Research question: How do you activate background knowledge and use it effectively?
1:10 What did the research look at?
1:23 What were the results?
2:45 Bonus content! Neena reviews AI tools for finding, summarizing and synthesizing educational research

Referenced AI Resources and News:
• https://elicit.com/
• https://researcher.life/
• https://www.scilynk.com/
• https://scite.ai/
• https://consensus.app/
• https://www.fastcompany.com/90950362/...
• https://iste.org/ai
• https://huggingface.co/spaces/facehug...

Research Citation: Hattan, C., Alexander, P. A., & Lupo, S. M. (2023). Leveraging what students know to make sense of texts: What the research says about prior knowledge activation. Review of Educational Research.

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