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The Variation Effect: How seating plans might be undermining learning

May 17, 2015 | Category: Featured
Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.Marcus Aureliu...
#desirable difficulties #Benedict Carey #seating plans #variation effect

Are all difficulties desirable?

Oct 05, 2013 | Category: Featured
I was aghast to read an extract from Malcolm Gladwell's new book, David And Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits And The Art Of Battling Giants in The Guardian yesterday. Not because it's bad, but because it's...
#stress #Malcolm Gladwell #John Tomsett #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #dyslexia #David and Goliath

Deliberately difficult - why it's better to make learning harder

Jun 10, 2013 | Category: Featured
The most fundamental goals of education are long-term goals. As teachers and educators, we want targeted knowledge and skills to be acquired in a way that makes them durable and flexible. More specifi...
#Ofsted #Dylan Wiliam #Graham Nuthall #Kev Bartle #progress #Robert Bjork #desirable difficulties #Ebbinghaus #New Theory of Disuse #Retrieval induced forgetting

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