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Teaching to make children cleverer - Part 3

Jan 10, 2018 | Category: curriculum

As discussed in Part 1 of this series of posts, it seems probable that the best way to use education to increase children's cognitive capacities is to increase the quantity and the quality of what the...

#opportunity cost #cultural captial #Michael Young #Pierre Bourdieu #powerful knowledge

Why I don't think emojis should be studied in school

Jul 20, 2017 | Category: curriculum

I have nothing against emojis, just as I have nothing against kittens, turpentine or billiards. I'm more than happy for anyone who's minded to stroke kittens, drink turps and swan around with a billia...

#English literature #opportunity cost #gimmicks #emoji

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

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

Just give me one good reason to use a tablet in the classroom

Feb 18, 2016 | Category: Featured

I'll start with a confession: I don't really get iPads. This came as something as a surprise to me as, by and large, I'm pathetically geeky about Apple products. I use my iPhone 6plus all the time and...

#iPads #edtech #opportunity cost

Opportunity knocks: the hidden cost of bad ideas

Nov 30, 2015 | Category: leadership

Remember that Time is Money. He that can earn Ten Shillings a Day by his Labour, and goes abroad, or sits idle one half of that Day, tho’ he spends but Sixpence during his Diversion or Idleness, ought...

#marking #opportunity cost