When you are blocking, you activate a sort of illusion of competence because you recognize what you're seeing, therefore you believe you comprehends the whole. However, when interleaving, you might be confused at times, and have doubts.. so you wrongly imagine not being competent enough. Interleaving is more difficult and leads you to think you truly don't know much. Blocking is easier, and can mislead you to think you know everything (specially because we tend to practice again what we already know well - overlearning - while we should be focusing on the more difficult stuff).

This is what they need to be teaching in schools!!!!!!!!! Massed practice always made me want to blow my brains out lol😂I wish I knew about this information and techniques back in high school because I definitely would’ve killed it and then just built on it through undergrad

Blocking practice is used in school despite all the evidence that Interleaving practice is much more helpful to memorize information better. It‘s important for students to know about interleaving when learning at home!

Blocking is like theory/theory questions Interleaving is like MCQ/application

So I loved this video until about 4:00 in. Then I stopped paying attention & started doing something else. Why is there no interleaving in the video?!

My students refer to Interleaving as Inter-Weaving, which seems clearer to me.

Very interesting, thank you!

In the long run, would it be better to interleave across an entire subject (let's say an entire college major) or within a few sub-subjects at a time (in this analogy, specific courses)?

Does giving drill practice disadvantage learners because it’s blocked practice and not interleaved, or does drill not have to be block practice?

Fluency != learning #tldr

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