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Why I think table top mats are better than wall displays

May 29, 2016 | Category: Featured

A couple of days ago I posted an article exploring why I'm not keen on teaching being expected to spend time putting on displays in their classrooms. This made some people happy :) but a few people we...

#scaffolding #display

What every teacher needs to know about... classroom display

May 26, 2016 | Category: Featured

Once again the finest monthly publication for secondary teachers, Teach Secondary, have demeaned themselves by publishing another of my sloppily put together rants. This month my barrel scraping has r...

#classroom display #Teach Secondary

Triple impact feedback on the EEF marking review

May 24, 2016 | Category: Featured

1.The EEF publish a review of the evidence of marking. 2. I give them some feedback. 3. The EEF respond to my criticisms. 4. Well... we could go on for ever. Feel familiar?James Richardson and Robbie...

#marking #Education Endowment Foundation

Seven tools for thinking #1: Use your mistakes

May 22, 2016 | Category: Featured

"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself." - Daniel Dennett. I've been rereading the philosopher, Daniel Dennett's wonderfully erudite manual for mak...

#Daniel Dennett #folk psychology #mistakes

A plug for Teaching & Learning Conference on 2nd July

Mar 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

The following is a guest post from Anne Williams wherein she promotes the Teaching & Learning conference she has organised on 2nd July in Leeds. I'll be speaking there and so will loads of other rathe...

Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity

Mar 16, 2016 | Category: Featured

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...

#John Fowles #Carl Sagan #Andrew Marr #cynicism #scepticism

Just semantics? Subtle but important misunderstandings about learning styles, modalities, and preferences

Feb 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is a guest blog from Yana Weinstein, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, one of the masterminds behind the wonderful Learning Scientists site.Scientists get quite attached...

#learning styles #working memory #long-term memory #Yana Weinstein

Why do edtech folk react badly to scepticism? Part 2: Confirmation bias

Feb 23, 2016 | Category: Featured

In Part 1 I explored the concept of vested interest and how it could lead us to make decisions and react in ways which might, to others, appear irrational. This post address another predictable way we...

#Robert Bjork #Education Endowment Foundation #confirmation bias #digital technology

Just give me one good reason to use a tablet in the classroom

Feb 18, 2016 | Category: Featured

I'll start with a confession: I don't really get iPads. This came as something as a surprise to me as, by and large, I'm pathetically geeky about Apple products. I use my iPhone 6plus all the time and...

#iPads #edtech #opportunity cost

January on The Learning Spy

Feb 02, 2016 | Category: Featured

Here, for your delight and edification, are the blogs I wrote during January:1st January - New Year’s resolutions for teachers and school leaders Make this year better than last!2nd January - Varietie...