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Are knowledge organisers flawed?

Sep 20, 2020 | Category: psychology
Like many others, I got quite excited about the idea of organising the knowledge students needed to learn on a single page when I first encountered it on Joe Krby's blog. As Joe said, a knowledge orga...

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...

Teaching to make children cleverer - Part 2

Jan 07, 2018 | Category: psychology
In my last post I reviewed those aspects on intelligence which are likely to be most malleable by teachers. Briefly, research into individual differences suggests that intelligence is fairly stable an...