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On gimmicks

Oct 02, 2016 | Category: learning
What is a gimmick? The dictionary defines it as "a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade." So, putting a cartoon tiger on a packet of breakfast cereal in order to attract...
#Daniel Willingham #cultural capital #Daniel Kahneman #opportunity cost #gimmicks #Rory Sutherland

Teaching for independence: thinking, memory & mastery

Jul 02, 2014 | Category: learning
Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to thin...
#Daniel Wilingham #independent learning #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Kirschner #Sweller & Clark

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning
Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...
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