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Making Kids #Cleverer Chapter 3: Is intelligence the answer?
Jan 02, 2019 |
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This post summarises the arguments in the third chapter of my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The rest of the chapter summaries can be found here.Whatever it is you value, intelligence seems to be int...
Making Kids #Cleverer – Chapter 2: Built by culture
Jan 01, 2019 |
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This is the second of a series of posts summarising the arguments in my new book, Making Kids Cleverer.
The second chapter reviews some what we know from evolutionary biology, evolutionary psycholo...
Making Kids #Cleverer - Chapter 1: The purpose of education
Dec 31, 2018 |
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This is the first of a series of posts about the arguments in my new book, Making Kids Cleverer. The intention is, obviously, to sharpen your appetite in the hope that you'll actually give it a read.I...
My most read posts of 2018
Dec 31, 2018 |
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After almost 8 years of blogging, I find myself becoming more erratic and less concerned about updating the site. That said, I still manage to write 61 posts over the course of 2018. These are the pos...
Making Kids #Cleverer - a summary
Dec 30, 2018 |
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At long last, my new book, Making Kids Cleverer: A manifesto for closing the advantage gap, is out in the world. The argument is divided into 10 chapters and a conclusion and, over the coming days and...
The best books I've read since June
Dec 17, 2018 |
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Back in June I posted on the books I had found most interesting and enjoyable during the first half of the year. They were: Factfulness by Hans Rosling, Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker, Skin in th...
A tribute to my best teacher
Nov 26, 2018 |
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There's little doubt in my mind that my English teacher, Roy Birch, was the best teacher I had at school.He became my teacher in what is now known as Year 10. I was part of the first ever cohort to ta...
How to explain... schema
Oct 31, 2018 |
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I've spent a fair bit of time trying to explain various psychological concepts in a way that is easily grasped by busy teachers and have come to the conclusion that some of my explanations might be wo...
Survivorship bias and the enduring appeal of bad ideas
Oct 09, 2018 |
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Survivorship bias occurs when we draw conclusions only from examples which have passed some sort of selection criteria and systematically discount those which have not.During World War II, British bom...
A measurement checklist
Oct 03, 2018 |
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Campbell's Law: The more any quantitive social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the...
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