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Learning is liminal
Feb 10, 2016 |
Category: learning
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move.
Tennyson, Ulysses
I offered my de...
Focusing on performance is the enemy of the growth mindset
Mar 02, 2014 |
Category: learning
Over the past year or so I've been following a line of thinking which has gone something like this:Learning and performance are not the same thing. Pupils' performance in lessons does not correspond w...
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...
What is learning?
Jan 08, 2012 |
Category: learning
Go on, ask yourself, ask other teachers, ask some students: what is learning? It's a pretty big question isn't it? One that I might have felt hopelessly unequal to answering before reading Graham Nuth...
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