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Why do we overestimate the importance of differences?

Nov 05, 2014 | Category: learning

"For a difference to be a difference, it must make a difference." William James We're all different. Obviously. Just like snowflakes, human beings are all special, unique and entirely individual. B...

#differentiation #learning styles #cognitive bias #Carl Weiman

I ♥ rote learning

Aug 26, 2014 | Category: learning

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.St. Basil I've been reading and enjoying Getting it Wrong from the B...

#Daniel Willingham #Joshua Foer #Kieran Egan #Poetry by Heart #rote learning

Teaching for independence: thinking, memory & mastery

Jul 02, 2014 | Category: learning

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to thin...

#Daniel Wilingham #independent learning #Robert Coe #Daniel Kahneman #Kirschner #Sweller & Clark

The problem with SatNavs, or how feedback can impede learning

Jul 06, 2014 | Category: learning

I'm not an especially good driver, but I'm a truly terrible navigator. This used to mean that I would get lost. A lot. When I first moved to Bristol in 2001 I bought an A-Z of the city and when drivin...

#John Hattie #feedback #Robert Bjork #SatNav

Is listening really passive?

Jun 30, 2014 | Category: learning

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it. David Hockney Like many others, I got very excited to see this published on the Ofsted website back in February: Inspectors must not...

#Ofsted #listening #active #ADHD #passive

Listen up: Improving the quality of classroom discussion

Jun 29, 2014 | Category: learning

We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.Diogenes Pupils are asked to discuss stuff in class all the time. As, from time to time, are teachers. Think back to...

#Robin Alexander #Doug Lemov #discussion #listening

What I got up to at the Wellington Festival of Education Part 1

Jun 22, 2014 | Category: learning

Sadly, I missed most of the Friday. I spent the morning speaking at a maths conference (I know, right?) on correcting the mistakes made in the name of ‘numeracy across the curriculum’. If you’re inter...

#AfL #formative assessment #Dylan Wiliam #Wellington College

Why I changed my mind about the SOLO taxonomy

Jun 15, 2014 | Category: learning

I've been meaning to write this for quite a while. Increasingly, I've become rather embarrassed about my erstwhile advocacy for Biggs & Collis's generic taxonomy, the Structure of Observed Learning Ou...

#SOLO taxonomy #Carl Sagan #James Theobald

Differentiation: Are high expectations enough?

Jun 12, 2014 | Category: learning

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.Charles F. Kettering Last night someone retweeted a tagline from a post I wrote earlier this year: "Teach to the top, support a...

#differentiation #glue ear #high expectations

Squaring the circle: can learning be easy and hard?

May 11, 2014 | Category: learning

Regular readers will know I've been ploughing a furrow on this question for quite a while now. Last June I synthesised my thinking in this post: Deliberately difficult – why it’s better to make learni...

#Dylan Wiliam #Daniel Willingham #Robert Bjork #Kris Boulton #Robert Coe #Annie Murphy Paul #Daniel Kahneman