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Can we make learning permanent?

Aug 30, 2015 | Category: learning

How can we know whether a student has learned something? To answer that we need a working definition of what we mean by learning and the one I've come up with is tripartite; learning is composed of re...

#Threshold concepts #phenotypic plasticity #speeding

Around the world in 80 classrooms

Jul 22, 2015 | Category: Featured

A guest blog by Lucy Crehan (@lucy_crehan) I’ve spent the last two years learning about the best education systems in the world – from the inside. It was a particular moment in a year 11 Science class...

Do gender differences make a difference?

Jul 18, 2015 | Category: psychology

It's a well-known fact that boys underachieve. Every statistic tells us so. But ever since writing this post I've been suspicious of gender as the root cause for differences in achievement. Yes, girls...

#Elizabeth Spelke #gender #Steven Pinker

#WrongBook extracts

Jul 17, 2015 | Category: Featured

For those who have as yet resisted the temptation to buy a copy of my new book, I've put together a selection of (hopefully) tempting extracts. Have a great summer y'all.1. Cognitive dissonance2. Fund...

#WrongBook

Reading is a rebel act: on the role of school libraries

Jul 13, 2015 | Category: reading

"My library was dukedom large enough" The Tempest, Shakespeare"The act of poetry is a rebel act." Farewell to English, Michael HarnettSome people are never happy. After writing my last post on how it...

#libraries

How do you get students to read for pleasure?

Jul 11, 2015 | Category: reading

"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book."Marcel ProustReading seems to make us smarter. Here's Keith Stanovich explaining why:https://www.y...

#Keith Stanovich #National Literacy Trust #reading for pleasure

Reactions to #WrongBook

Jul 04, 2015 | Category: writing

In addition to the pre-publication reviews from some of the most eminent thinkers in education and psychology such as professors Dylan Wiliam, Robert Bjork, Daniel Willingham and Robert Coe, some 'rea...

#WrongBook

20 psychological principles for teachers #20 Interpretation

Jul 05, 2015 | Category: assessment

This is the 20th and final post in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning and the third of three posts examining how to assess students’ progress: "Making...

#Dylan Wiliam #Samuel Messick

20 psychological principles for teachers #18 Formative & summative assessment

Jun 29, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is #18 in my series on the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching and Learning and the first of three posts examining how to assess students' progress: "Formative and summative a...

#formative assessment #summative assessment #mimicry

This much I know about John Tomsett's book

Jun 22, 2015 | Category: reflection

I remember reading John's first blog when it appeared in June 2012. Since then his posts have been consistently wise and deeply human. Even when he bangs on about golf, fishing or The Clash. Until I r...

#Sir Ken Robinson #John Tomsett #This Much I Know About Love Over Fear