The power of poetry – ASD
When your daughter shares a view of her world. This evening Freya shared a poem with me, taken from an anthology she was reading. Her words as she handed over her phone to read it. This is like my world. …
The ecosystem metaphor for memory
Following the excellent TTCT PD event, I posted the above slide on the metaphorical reference of memory as an ecosystem, as opposed to a library, and received two very interesting responses. Before I go further, I should say that the …
Cognitive success, gestalt and schema
Chatting with Jon Owen @JonOwenDI of the past two days has drawn out a lot of thinking on cognition. It started with a question. What is knowledge, before it become knowledge. We settled on “sense data” and the teacher poll …
Memory – what comes before knowledge?
Do we have a terminology problem – yes. I think so. Comically highlighted by @C_Hendrick. ‘Retrieval practice’ the ‘testing effect’ or indeed test-enhanced learning is the case in point. In fact, Dr Agarwal asks us to ‘stop calling it that,’ …
Photographic memories
Today, in the Q/A with colleagues from VNET I was asked two excellent questions. The first on “photographic memories” and the other on addressing the challenge of a bloated curriculum and too little time. I will get to the second, …
From retrieval practice to test-enhanced learning
Co-post on SecEd I hope you enjoy this summary post on retrieval practice and test-enhanced learning – as the fog begins to clear. Research into the factors that make the use of retrieval practice effective continues apace. From directing attention …
Organise for better retention
This afternoon I was listening to Gayle Allen (@gallentc) interview Dan Willingham on the Curious Minds at Word podcast. The podcast has a fantastic back catalogue and this episode is essential listening for any teacher, student or PD learning lead. …
ECT mentors, middle leaders, need to know about the trouble tree
Bookmarks get revisited at half-term. Most get deleted. Occasionally there is a gem in there. First the original – with a few corrections. Then the education adaptation. I share this here, I there are plenty of wonderful mentors, middle leaders, …