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7 habits of genuinely expert teachers

Mar 09, 2016 | Category: leadership

Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuit...

#Robin Hogarth #intuition #expertise

The value of testing - on the back of a postage stamp

Mar 07, 2016 | Category: psychology

In an effort to spread the word about some of the most robustly researched psychological effects which can be used to support learning, I've been having a go at creating gimmicky memes.This one is on...

#testing effect #retrieval practice

The rise of the unscrupulous optimist

Mar 05, 2016 | Category: leadership

"Optimism, n.: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary Education is a project filled with hope. We stand, framed heroical...

#Robert Coe #College of Teaching #Roger Scruton

February on The Learning Spy

Mar 02, 2016 | Category: blogging

February was cold, dark, wet and miserable. Which probably explains why I go so much writing done. Here are all of my posts from lat month in one convenient digest.Learning about learning: What every...

The role of teachers is not to make managers' lives easier

Feb 29, 2016 | Category: behaviour

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them." Benjamin Disraeli Questions about the purpose of education divide and bedevil: there's no real agreement...

#marking #planning #data #workload

Why do edtech folk react badly to scepticism? Part 3: Sunk cost fallacy

Feb 27, 2016 | Category: technology

After writing a fairly frivolous article expressing scepticism about using iPads in schools, and then experiencing a torrent of invective from various iPadistas, I began a series of posts exploring wh...

#iPads #Sunk Cost Fallacy #edtech #Carol Tavris #Elliot Aronson

What are they learning?

Feb 26, 2016 | Category: learning

Learning is never neutral. Although I have no empirical evidence, I'm pretty sure that it's rare indeed for children - or indeed anyone - to learn nothing in a given situation. My contention is that c...

#English

What every teacher needs to know about... rote learning

Feb 24, 2016 | Category: learning

As per, here's this month's Teach Secondary column for you delight and edification.These days it is rare indeed for children to be taught much by rote, or, to use a less pejorative term, by heart. R...

#rote learning #Teach Secondary

Just semantics? Subtle but important misunderstandings about learning styles, modalities, and preferences

Feb 21, 2016 | Category: Featured

This is a guest blog from Yana Weinstein, Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts, Lowell, one of the masterminds behind the wonderful Learning Scientists site.Scientists get quite attached...

#learning styles #working memory #long-term memory #Yana Weinstein

Why do edtech folk react badly to scepticism? Part 2: Confirmation bias

Feb 23, 2016 | Category: Featured

In Part 1 I explored the concept of vested interest and how it could lead us to make decisions and react in ways which might, to others, appear irrational. This post address another predictable way we...

#Robert Bjork #Education Endowment Foundation #confirmation bias #digital technology