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Struggle and success

Dec 09, 2016 | Category: learning

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Albert Camus The gods of ancient Greece punished Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra, for his hubris...

#Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #struggle

The feedback continuum: why reducing feedback helps students learn

Oct 15, 2016 | Category: learning

The effects of feedback are more complex than we often realise. While expertise and mastery is unlikely to develop without feedback it's certainly not true to say that giving feedback results in exper...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork

What is 'transfer' and is it important?

Sep 17, 2015 | Category: learning

Very kindly, Greg Ashman posted his thoughts on #WrongBook on his site yesterday - if you haven't seen his 'review' you can find it here. I really like both the style and the substance of Greg's piece...

#Robert Bjork #transfer #Greg Ashman

Revisiting lost learning by Gerald Haigh

Nov 30, 2014 | Category: learning

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting. - William James As teachers, we tend to do all in our power to prevent students from forgetting what we...

#learning #Robert Bjork #performance #forgetting #Gerald Haigh #music

Are we fetishising marking?

Nov 14, 2014 | Category: learning

When you make something a fetish, ashes and dusts will laugh at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes!Mehmet Murat ildan Last night I innocently posted...

#John Hattie #homework #marking #Robert Bjork #EEF #Sunk Cost Fallacy

The problem with SatNavs, or how feedback can impede learning

Jul 06, 2014 | Category: learning

I'm not an especially good driver, but I'm a truly terrible navigator. This used to mean that I would get lost. A lot. When I first moved to Bristol in 2001 I bought an A-Z of the city and when drivin...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #SatNav

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

The Cult of Outstanding™: the problem with 'outstanding' lessons

Jan 16, 2014 | Category: learning

First of all I need to come clean. Up until pretty recently I was a fully paid up member of the Cult of Outstanding™. Last January I considered myself to be a teacher at the height of my powers. In th...

#Ofsted #lesson observations #Cristina Milos #outstanding lessons #Robert Bjork