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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...

#knowledge #skills #curse of knowledge #schema

'Understanding' and Occam's razor

Jun 24, 2017 | Category: learning

At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein both concluded independently that measurements of light speed would be the same for all observers. But while both a...

#knowledge #evolution #Albert Einstein #Occam's razor #David Geary #Richard Laland #Hendrik Lorentz

Why what you teach matters

Nov 04, 2016 | Category: learning

I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that within the next two years Ofsted will stop grading the quality of teaching, learning and assessment as part of their overall judgement on schools' effect...

#knowledge #opportunity cost #21st century skills

Can a good teacher teach anything well?

Dec 14, 2013 | Category: learning

I used to work for a headteacher who was fond of saying "We're teachers of children, not teachers of subjects." This was justification for having non-specialist teachers in certain shortage subjects....

#knowledge #pedagogical content knowledge

It's not what you know... oh, hang on: it IS what you know!

Nov 09, 2013 | Category: learning

I'm fed up of people who should know better saying they're bored with the false dichotomy of skills versus knowledge. The knowledge vs skills debate is always worth having because it conceals a more f...

#bloom's taxonomy #knowledge #SOLO #Joe Kirby

Knowledge is power

Oct 21, 2012 | Category: learning

I've been having a bit of think this week.Firstly I read Daisy Christodoulou's post on Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum. She points out that Hirsch, oft-condemned for being the darling of ideologues...

#Sir Ken Robinson #SOLO taxonomy #knowledge #correlation is not causation #ED Hirsch #Francis Bacon #Independent Thinking #Little Miss Sunshine #pirates #The Thick Of It