How Learning Happens
Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice Paul A. Kirschner & Carl Hendrick More often than not, over the weekend, I try and set aside time to read and summarise a research paper or two. This …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Memorisation too good to forget?
Wrestling with my own thoughts, as an advocate for Successive Relearning, I’ll defend rote learning more broadly another day. What I want to clarify, for myself, for future conversations, is why I am an advocate of memorisation. I very much …
What makes the difference
Tell someone, it makes a difference to them. Tell others, makes all the difference. Midweek reflection The collective effort and contributions to RememberMore are significant and on reflection I realised that I had not shared my thanks, both personal and …
Hidden Lives of Learners (III)
I can not remember when I first encountered Graham Nuthall’s research or exactly when I first read The Hidden Lives of Learners but it is one of those titles that often re-surfaces in talks and blog posts, still, having been …
Marge and success
Marge or rather MARGE has perked her head up again on Twitter. Arthur Shimamura’s acronym for five principles of efficient learning: Motivate, Attend, Relate, Generate, Evaluate. The MARGE mnemonic techniques puts forward “A Whole-Brain Learning Approach for Students and Teachers” to …
Dan Willingham Salt and Pepper questions
My continued exploration of Metacognition led to “In conversation with Professor Paul Kirchner” and then Dan Willingham’s “How to help students ‘know’ they know.” The two crossovers to RememberMore – Overlearning – check. Then question formats, learning A to B …
Complexity in classrooms
How lucky am I? Friday mornings start with an informal conversation about learning, being a teacher, a parent, with two great colleagues, sometimes coffee, a croissant and a smattering of “dad” jokes. (I spare you). N is funnier than I …
Learning Efficiency
Let’s start with understanding what “Learning Efficiency” is, as until this week, I had not encountered this term before. Learning Efficiency is the “positive relation between learning rate (speed of learning) and retention (amount remembered after a delay).” That definition …