This should be a short post. It is a frustrated post. It is where lay advice, proverbial advice, is bad advice for learners. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” is bad advice for learners. What is more …
Part I covered the background research, that the “more popular option” of premade flashcards may lead to users “missing out on learning experiences that might occur when making one’s own flashcards.” Of course, there is more to it than that. …
It is a practical question. Use premade flashcards or design your own? What at first appears to be a relatively straightforward question, is far from from it. Pan et al. (2022) offer a ‘General Audience Summary’ and that is a …
At the beginning of the summer, I stumbled upon the work of Dr Svenja Heitmann. At the time, I wrote up the papers and started a dialogue with Dr Svenja about her research. It follows on from my interest in …
Working with RememberMore, focusing on the pupils encoding and use of new vocabulary and reading ‘Ready to Teach: A Christmas Carol,’ I have been reviewing the test-enhanced learning routines for acquiring the copious amounts of new vocabulary and powerful words …
Our heart is clean so the stands must be clean. This means the team reaches its destiny. Japanese fan following Japan’s dramatic 2-1 win over Germany 2022 World Cup The Japanese are taught that leaving things cleaner than the way …
Pupils don’t learn what you teach them. Sarah Cottingham Pupils learn their own interpretation of what you teach them – based on what they already know. That is, pupils attend to what they think is important based on what they …
Over at “The Confident Teacher” Alex Quigley (@alexjquigley) posted 10 Creative Ways to Teach Vocabulary on which this post is based. It is well worth a read before reading this post. This focus on this post, is reusable. Alex’s post …
