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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

What do we mean by 'skills'?

Nov 10, 2016 | Category: Featured

Any definition of skills depends on knowledge. Joe Kirby has written persuasively about skills and knowledge forming a double helix - inseparably intertwined and mutually interdependent. This is defin...

#creativity #skills #essay writing #procedural knowledge #propositional knowledge #tacit knowledge

Some dichotomies are real: the 'and/or debate'

Dec 06, 2013 | Category: Featured

I get quite cross when I hear people who really should know better dismissing the knowledge/skills debate as a “mindless dichotomy". It’s not. The ideological opposition between proponents of these vi...

#knowledge #skills #Angela Duckworth #resilience #Stephen Tiernay

Why the knowledge/skills debate is worth having

Jul 07, 2013 | Category: blogging

'I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike'.Maya Angelou I've come an awful long way since September 2011 when Cristina Milos to...

#Cristina Milos #knowledge #skills #Sir Michael Wilshaw #Old Andrew #SOLO

How knowledge is being detached from skills in English

Jun 18, 2013 | Category: English

I don't normally do this. In fact, I haven't put up a post by anyone else since last August. But in this case Joe Kirby has expressed my own thoughts so articulately that there seemed little point try...

#bloom's taxonomy #knowledge #skills #Shakespeare #Joe Kirby

Knowledge or skills?

Sep 11, 2011 | Category: Featured

Skills, knowledge, who cares? I'm a huge fan of the implementation of Personal Learning and Thinking Skills as part of the English National Curriculum and feel confused and concerned about the curren...

#Cristina Milos #Gove #knowledge #skills