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The trouble with troublesome knowledge

Jun 16, 2018 | Category: Featured

A recent blog post made some interesting assertions about knowledge. In doing so it presented a series of opinions as facts. That is not a criticism - we all have a tendency to do this. But in order t...

#Daniel Willingham #Bryan Caplan #Douglas Detterman #Jerome Bruner #Lindsay Johns

Can thinking hard be incidental? A conversation with Daniel Willingham

Nov 27, 2016 | Category: Featured

For some time now, Rob Coe has been suggesting that a good proxy for students learning in lessons is that they "have to think hard". This seemed eminently sensible and I've written about this formulat...

#Daniel Willingham #Rob Coe

Does 'brain training' increase intelligence?

Nov 08, 2016 | Category: psychology

In my last post I outlined the differences between fluid and crystallised intelligence and argued that fluid intelligence (Gf) - the ability to reason and to solve new problems independently of previo...

#Daniel Willingham #working memory #fluid intelligence #brain training #Robert Sternberg

The trouble with transfer: How can we make learning more flexible?

Oct 17, 2016 | Category: learning

I define learning as the long-term retention of knowledge and skills and the ability to transfer between contexts. The retention bit is fairly straightforward and uncontroversial: if you can't remembe...

#Daniel Willingham #transfer #Barnett and Ceci

On gimmicks

Oct 02, 2016 | Category: learning

What is a gimmick? The dictionary defines it as "a trick or device intended to attract attention, publicity, or trade." So, putting a cartoon tiger on a packet of breakfast cereal in order to attract...

#Daniel Willingham #cultural capital #Daniel Kahneman #opportunity cost #gimmicks #Rory Sutherland

From Scared Straight to Reading Wrong

Oct 24, 2015 | Category: reading

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the b...

#Daniel Willingham #Matthew Syed #decoding #James Finckenauer #phonics

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

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...

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20 psychological principles for teachers #5 “Learning is dependent on practice”

May 28, 2015 | Category: psychology

This is the fifth in a series of posts unpicking the Top 20 Principles From Psychology for Teaching And Learning. In this post I investigate Principle 5: “Acquiring long-term knowledge and skill is la...

#Daniel Willingham #deliberate pratice

I ♥ rote learning

Aug 26, 2014 | Category: learning

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.St. Basil I've been reading and enjoying Getting it Wrong from the B...

#Daniel Willingham #Joshua Foer #Kieran Egan #Poetry by Heart #rote learning