Archive
Everyone values critical thinking, don't they?
May 02, 2017 |
Category: Featured
NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning ani...
O brave new world! The search for 21st century qualifications
Feb 13, 2017 |
Category: learning
It's difficult to ignore the appealing certainty that the times in which we are alive are unique and fundamentally different to any that have gone before. The most cited reason for this is the fact th...
Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan?
Nov 23, 2015 |
Category: myths
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I first saw physicist, Sugata Mitra speak about his Hole in the Wall exper...
Is school a straightjacket? A response to David Aaronovitch
Oct 23, 2015 |
Category: Featured
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky
In yesterday's Times, David Aaron...
Why do I need a teacher if I've got Google and a granny?
Dec 04, 2011 |
Category: learning
NB - Having reviewed the evidence, I am now thoroughly convinced I was wrong about all this. Instead, try reading Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan?
Over the summer I watche...
Why do I need a teacher if I've got Google and a granny?
Dec 04, 2011 |
Category: learning
NB - Having reviewed the evidence, I am now thoroughly convinced I was wrong about all this. Instead, try reading Is it just me or is Sugata Mitra an irresponsible charlatan? Over the summer I watched...
Do It Yourself
Sep 05, 2011 |
Category: learning
There is a certain amount of irony in the title of today's post in that I haven't written it myself. Instead it comes from the typing fingers of the marvellous Kenny Pieper. His excellent blog Just Tr...
Categories
Tags
Ofsted (62)
Dylan Wiliam (56)
John Hattie (31)
Robert Bjork (29)
marking (27)
feedback (23)
Daniel Willingham (22)
Robert Coe (20)
Carol Dweck (18)
knowledge (17)
lesson observation (16)
Daisy Christodoulou (16)
AfL (16)
Growth mindset (15)
Phil Beadle (13)
Making Kids Cleverer (13)
Graham Nuthall (13)
Sir Michael Wilshaw (13)
SOLO taxonomy (13)
Reading (13)