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What's wrong with Ofsted's definition of learning?

Feb 04, 2019 | Category: Featured

As everyone already knows, Ofsted have published a draft of the new Inspection Framework which is currently undergoing a process of consultation. Amazingly, one of the most contentious aspects of the...

#Ofsted #Robert Bjork #long-term memory #Paul Kirschner #John Sweller #William James #Hermann Ebbinghaus

When do novices become experts?

Feb 17, 2018 | Category: psychology

It's a fairly well established principle of cognitive science that experts and novices think differently. Being aware of these differences can make a big difference to teachers. For instance, if we as...

#experts and novices #John Sweller #cognitive load theory #expertise reversal effect #Slava Kalyuga

The problem with problem solving (or, why I struggle to reset my clock)

May 14, 2017 | Category: psychology

When the clocks went forward in March and we arrived in British Summer Time, I made an abortive attempt to change the time on my car's clock. I knew, from having eventually changed it six months ago,...

#problem-solving #John Sweller #means-end analysis

Education isn't natural - that's why it's hard

Feb 23, 2017 | Category: psychology

One of the most troubling conundrums in the field of education is that the common sense observation that children learn so many things simply by virtue of being immersed in an appropriate environment ...

#David Geary #evolutionary psychology #John Sweller

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Education isn't natural - that's why it's hard

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