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What's wrong with Ofsted's definition of learning?

Feb 04, 2019 | Category: Featured

As everyone already knows, Ofsted have published a draft of the new Inspection Framework which is currently undergoing a process of consultation. Amazingly, one of the most contentious aspects of the...

#Ofsted #Robert Bjork #long-term memory #Paul Kirschner #John Sweller #William James #Hermann Ebbinghaus

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

Endorsements - what are they worth?

May 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise — although the philosophers generally call it “recognition”!William James You might not have noticed (I've been the...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Wilingham #Robert Bjork #What If Everything You Knew About Teaching Was Wrong?

NEW BOOK: Foreword by Robert A Bjork

Mar 25, 2015 | Category: Featured

As some readers will no doubt be aware, I've written a new book. I've been fascinated by Robert Bjork's research into learning and memory ever since first encountering it back in February 2013, so of...

#Robert Bjork

Learning is invisible - my slides from #LEF15

Mar 01, 2015 | Category: Featured

For all those who asked for my slides after my presentation of the London Festival of Education at the IOE, here you go: #LFE15 Learning is invisible from David Didau For all those who weren't ther...

#liminality #Robert Bjork #London Festival of Education

Forget about assessing learning after lessons

Sep 19, 2014 | Category: Featured

Today I not only have my first ever article published by the TES, it's made the front page!Those of you familiar with my output will recognise the arguments and be familiar with the thinking that's le...

#Dylan Wiliam #TES #Robert Bjork

Still grading lessons? A triumph of experience over hope

Feb 08, 2014 | Category: Featured

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon To paraphrase Rob Coe's seminal research, yesterday's National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) conference at KEGS in Chelmsford was a tri...

#Graham Nuthall #Robert Bjork #lesson observation #Robert Coe #Liam Collins #NTEN

Force fed feedback: is less more?

Jan 26, 2014 | Category: Featured

It is commonly and widely accepted that feedback is the best, brightest and shiniest thing we can be doing as teachers, and the more of it the better. Ever since Prof Hattie published Visible Learning...

#Dylan Wiliam #John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #Andy Day

Are all difficulties desirable?

Oct 05, 2013 | Category: Featured

I was aghast to read an extract from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits And The Art Of Battling Giants in The Guardian yesterday. Not because it's bad, but because it's...

#stress #Malcolm Gladwell #John Tomsett #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #dyslexia #David and Goliath

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured

The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...

#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting