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The trouble with transfer: How can we make learning more flexible?

Oct 17, 2016 | Category: learning

I define learning as the long-term retention of knowledge and skills and the ability to transfer between contexts. The retention bit is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial: if you can't remembe...

#Daniel Willingham #transfer #Barnett and Ceci

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

I ♥ rote learning

Aug 26, 2014 | Category: learning

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.St. Basil I've been reading and enjoying Getting it Wrong from the B...

#Daniel Willingham #Joshua Foer #Kieran Egan #Poetry by Heart #rote learning

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...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman

Motivation: when the going gets tough, the tough get going

Aug 26, 2013 | Category: learning

If ever you get embroiled in a discussion on Learning Styles you may well be confronted with the chestnut of motivation.Learning styles, it seems to me, are all about motivation and management, and no...

#motivation #Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Graham Nuthall #memory

The problem with fun

Aug 22, 2013 | Category: learning

Getting students engaged so that they can be taught something seems much less effective than getting them engaged by teaching them something that engages them.Dylan Wiliam Could fun be the enemy of le...

#John Hattie #Daniel Willingham #fun #memory

What's deep learning & how do you do it?

Nov 09, 2011 | Category: learning

So, deep learning. What's all that about then? I've just been dipping into Evidence Based Teaching by Geoff Petty and then cross referencing his advice with Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel W...

#Geoff Petty #John Hattie #Daniel Willingham #Seth Godin

Should we be teaching knowledge or skills?

Nov 02, 2011 | Category: learning

It is a truth universally acknowledged that our education system isn’t quite up to snuff. And at that point virtually all agreement ceases. There are those on which we might loosely term the ‘right’ o...

#Ian Gilbert #SOLO taxonomy #Hattie #Tait Coles #constructivism #Daniel Willingham #direct instruction