In a recent round of professional learning, we dug into what Zach Groshell calls the alternating principle, or the input/output cycle. Before that learning, we shared a chapter from the book Just Tell Them with our teachers. In that chapter, Groshell shares that "While students need guidance during knowledge acquisition, they can also become overloaded if presented with too much information at once." This relates to the concepts of Cognitive Load Theory, which I've shared before.

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