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Why smart people say stupid things: a response to Jack Ma

Jan 24, 2019 | Category: Featured

In case you're unaware, I've just published a book that explains the role of knowledge in thought. Rather than rehash the arguments in depth (there are a series of chapter summaries here) suffice it t...

#knowledge #Jack Ma

Skill = knowledge + practice

Jan 11, 2019 | Category: learning

Over the years I've thought a lot about whether we should be teaching children knowledge of the world or the skills to flourish within it. The debate has moved on a lot in recent years and today it's...

#knowledge #skills #curse of knowledge #schema

'Understanding' and Occam's razor

Jun 24, 2017 | Category: learning

At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein both concluded independently that measurements of light speed would be the same for all observers. But while both a...

#knowledge #evolution #Albert Einstein #Occam's razor #David Geary #Richard Laland #Hendrik Lorentz

If not knowledge, what?

Jul 14, 2017 | Category: Featured

knowledge /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ noun facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject. "a thirst for knowledge" awareness...

#knowledge #Aristotle

Everyone values critical thinking, don't they?

May 02, 2017 | Category: Featured

NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning ani...

#Sugata Mitra #knowledge #Aristotle #E.D. Hirsch Jr #Michael Polanyi

Why what you teach matters

Nov 04, 2016 | Category: learning

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that within the next two years Ofsted will stop grading the quality of teaching, learning and assessment as part of their overall judgement on schools' effect...

#knowledge #opportunity cost #21st century skills

The Illusion of Knowing

Nov 20, 2015 | Category: leadership

Knowledge, n.: The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.Ambrose Bierce Advanced Learning has commissioned me to write a piece about the uses and abuses of data in schools. My thesis,...

#knowledge #data

A decreased focus on facts & knowledge won't help either

Sep 21, 2015 | Category: Featured

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. - Joseph Addison The TES reports today that “A leading independent school headmaster has warned that the greater focus...

#knowledge #TES #21st Century Learning

Chicken or egg? Thoughts about thinking

Apr 24, 2015 | Category: Featured

Which comes first? The chicken of knowledge or the egg of thinking?Over the past few years I have been advocating the view that thinking is a very shallow experience without knowledge. It seems self-e...

#knowledge #thinking

Can a good teacher teach anything well?

Dec 14, 2013 | Category: learning

I used to work for a headteacher who was fond of saying "We're teachers of children, not teachers of subjects." This was justification for having non-specialist teachers in certain shortage subjects....

#knowledge #pedagogical content knowledge