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The problem with grades: Are they worth keeping?

Nov 15, 2020 | Category: myths

Grades are so much a part of the educational landscape that it's hard to imagine what schools would be like without them. In the debate over whether or not we should retain exams this year, no one is...

#grades #10 Things Schools Get Wrong #David Botts #Jared Cooney Horvath

The promise and danger of neuroscience

Apr 25, 2017 | Category: myths

With the advent of increasingly inexpensive access to brain imaging technology, neuroscience has entered a fascinating period of rapid advancement. The ability to generate images of what’s going on in...

#Dorothy Bishop #cognitive load theory #neuroscience

Faith, scepticism and the 'unswayable minority'

Feb 19, 2017 | Category: myths

How do you stop people believing myths? The short answer is, it depends on how strongly people believe the myths. I've just read The Debunking Handbook, an excellent, free and succinct (only 9 pages i...

#Project Based Learning #cognitive dissonance #Daniel Gilbert #Sceptical Science

Is criticising learning styles an attack on the poor?

Dec 04, 2016 | Category: myths

Richard Olsen is a PhD candidate at Monash University studying "pedagogical capacity, effectiveness and quality in a changing world". He recently linked to this Australian Research Summary of Learning...

One more nail in the Learning Styles coffin...

Feb 19, 2016 | Category: myths

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it: She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth.Shakespeare, Macbeth Just when you think you've found a way to put...

#learning styles #working memory

The Learning Styles myth debunked on the back of an envelope

Feb 18, 2016 | Category: myths

"You don’t have to believe in learning styles theories to appreciate differences among kids, to hold an egalitarian attitude in the midst of such differences, and to try to foster such attitudes in st...

#learning styles

Who is dyslexic and why does it matter?

Feb 11, 2016 | Category: myths

"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." Francis Bacon I've been thinking about dyslexia for a while. Here are a few of the posts I've written over the past couple of years: May 2013 D...

#dyslexia #Julian Elliott #Elena Grigorenko

Romanticism & the Enlightenment: Meta-beliefs in education

Feb 06, 2016 | Category: myths

"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses." James Baldwin Before...

#Dorothy Bishop #Enlightenment #meta beliefs #Romanticism

More guff on creativity

Feb 03, 2016 | Category: myths

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (One of my favourite fake Einstein quotes.) What is it about creativity that makes so many otherwise sensible people say such silly thin...

#creativity #Jim al Khalili

Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan?

Nov 23, 2015 | Category: myths

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first saw physicist, Sugata Mitra speak about his Hole in the Wall exper...

#Sugata Mitra #Tom Bennett #ED Hirsch #Daisy Christodoulou #Kieran Egan #Donald Clark