{"id":562,"date":"2010-10-22T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glencora.org\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-10-22T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T18:53:18","slug":"pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/2010\/10\/22\/pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedagogical excuses: bad penmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally an excuse for my bad black\/whiteboardpersonship!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-11573666\">retention of information is improved<\/a> if the way it is presented is difficult to read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent &#8230; We&#8217;d found that disfluency led people to think harder about things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aside: the lead author, Connor Diemand-Yauman, either has a surprisingly non-unique name, or partakes of reality tv-show contestantship while majoring in psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally an excuse for my bad black\/whiteboardpersonship! Apparently, retention of information is improved if the way it is presented is difficult to read: &#8230; if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent &#8230; We&#8217;d found that disfluency led people to think harder about things. Aside: the lead author, Connor Diemand-Yauman, either has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[810,1000],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fun","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/glencora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}