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The importance of reading fluency

Apr 03, 2017 | Category: reading

Following on from a recent post on the folly of forcing children to read along as they are being read to, I presented my thoughts on reading fluency and the problems with 'reading along' at researchED...

#researchED

What's the job of a teacher?

Sep 13, 2016 | Category: Featured

One of the sessions I attended at researchED last Saturday was a debate on whether there really is a mental health crisis amongst young people. There were lots of interesting points made and the debat...

#researchED #mental health #social services

Do we teach children to love reading? Part 1

Sep 12, 2016 | Category: reading

This sounds like a really obvious question but, after listening to Frank Furedi at researchED on Saturday and subsequently reading his book, The Power of Reading: from Socrates to Twitter, I've realis...

#Reading #researchED #Frank Furedi #instrumentalism

The Trouble with Transfer - my #rED16 slides

Sep 10, 2016 | Category: learning

Today saw another triumphant outing for Tom Bennett's grassroots conference, researchED. This year I ran a session investigating the research into how we transfer what we learn between different conte...

#researchED #Paul Kirschner

Using threshold concepts to think about curriculum design

Nov 08, 2015 | Category: planning

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out, presented, turned up on a wet Saturday or just joined in from afar on our creaky Livestream (I'm particularly devastated that Professor Ray Land's keynote...

#Threshold concepts #researchED

#researchED comes to Swindon

Oct 06, 2015 | Category: research

London, Sydney, New York, Glasgow and now... Swindon.At long last Tom Bennett's moveable, grassroots, edu-research feast finally pitches up in the heart of Wiltshire and my new home from home, Swindon...

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Foxy Thinking: why we should embrace ignorance and learn to love uncertainty

Sep 05, 2015 | Category: Featured

"The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are." Robert Browning Ted Hughes' poem The Thought Fox is an attempt to describe the mysteries of the creative...

#researchED #Donald Rumsfeld #ignorance #Laura McInnerney #Nate Silver #uncertainty

researchED English & Literacy Conference

Jul 01, 2015 | Category: English

A few months ago I asked Tom Bennett if he'd be up for rubberstamping some sort of rEDx project (like TEDx but with brains) devoted to exploring the intersection between education research and English...

#English #Tom Bennett #researchED #Ray Land

Do all good ideas need to be researched?

May 10, 2015 | Category: research

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about ‘and’.Arthur Stanley Eddington After my presentation on Slow...

#Slow Writing #researchED