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What can education learn from aviation?

Oct 05, 2015 | Category: leadership

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we’re so fond of it. - George Eliot Flying is a dangerous business. All sort...

#checklists #aviation #Crew Resource Management #distributed cognition

Intelligent Accountability

Oct 04, 2015 | Category: Featured

The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law....

#Daniel Willingham #accountability #Roger Scruton

September on The Learning Spy

Sep 30, 2015 | Category: blogging

Last month was a bit on the patchy side. I blogged like fury, then nothing for a week. Anyway, here's my output over the month including the last, dying days of August: Can we make learning permanen...

The Science of Learning

Sep 30, 2015 | Category: psychology

Loyal readers may remember my attempts to wade through the Top 20 Principles of Psychology for Teaching & Learning report from the APA. If you haven't already read it, don't bother. This remarkably co...

#Daniel Willingham #Deans for Impact

Could less marking mean more feedback?

Sep 27, 2015 | Category: Featured

Opportunity makes a thief. - Francis Bacon I wrote recently about the differences between marking and feedback. In brief, and contrary to popular wisdom, they are not the same thing; feedback is uni...

#marking #feedback #Chris Wheadon #No More Marking

A heck of a lot of posters

Sep 20, 2015 | Category: Featured

Is it just me, or do secondary school children make a heck of a lot of posters? Now, I've got nothing against posters per se, but why do we seem to have decided that poster making is the best way to d...

#fun

Marking and feedback are not the same

Sep 19, 2015 | Category: workload

Feedback is, we're told, the most powerfully important invention in which a teacher can engage, but marking students' books can be mind-numbingly tedious drudgery. Because of this tension, many school...

#marking #feedback #EEF

Does technology have the power to transform education?

Sep 18, 2015 | Category: myths

Disruptors is a series of articles and opinion pieces commission by Virgin all loosely connected under the theme "Is education keeping up with the 21st century?" I like to think I can be as disruptive...

#edtech #Virgin Disruptors

What I mean by 'relevance'

Aug 31, 2015 | Category: psychology

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt A few...

#relevance

What's the point of parents' evenings?

Jul 15, 2015 | Category: Featured

Earlier today I read this post on the purpose of parents' evenings by David James. It's an excellent exploration of some of the vagaries and oddness of being either side of the table, but ultimately i...

#parents' evenings